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[執達員] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
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請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題： Researchers at Vanderbilt University decided to find out how intelligent various animals are. To rightly compare brain power in species, it isn’t enough to weigh brain tissue. You must take into account the brain relative to the organism’s size. But this may fall short of evaluating actual intelligence. Neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel said, “I believe the absolute number of neurons an animal has determined the richness of their internal mental state and their ability to predict what is about to happen in their environment based on past experience.” She and her colleagues found that meat eaters have about the same number of neurons as plant eaters. That means plant eaters need as much brain power to escape from predators as meat eaters need to catch them. How do cats and dogs measure up? Previous findings had cats ahead at 300 million neurons to dogs roughly 160 million. In this latest study, however, dogs were on top, with 530 million neurons to cats 250 million. Just for comparison, humans have around 16 billion such neurons. Even so, dogs were way above other meat eaters in the brain power department. Having a bigger brain has a downside, researchers have found. “Meat eating is largely considered a problem-solver in terms of energy,” Herculano-Houzel said, “but in retrospect, it is clear that meat eating animals must impose a delicate balance between how much brain and body a species can afford.” This may be why you often see large predators like lions and bears dozing.
請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題： Researchers at Vanderbilt University decided to find out how intelligent various animals are. To rightly compare brain power in species, it isn’t enough to weigh brain tissue. You must take into account the brain relative to the organism’s size. But this may fall short of evaluating actual intelligence. Neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel said, “I believe the absolute number of neurons an animal has determined the richness of their internal mental state and their ability to predict what is about to happen in their environment based on past experience.” She and her colleagues found that meat eaters have about the same number of neurons as plant eaters. That means plant eaters need as much brain power to escape from predators as meat eaters need to catch them. How do cats and dogs measure up? Previous findings had cats ahead at 300 million neurons to dogs roughly 160 million. In this latest study, however, dogs were on top, with 530 million neurons to cats 250 million. Just for comparison, humans have around 16 billion such neurons. Even so, dogs were way above other meat eaters in the brain power department. Having a bigger brain has a downside, researchers have found. “Meat eating is largely considered a problem-solver in terms of energy,” Herculano-Houzel said, “but in retrospect, it is clear that meat eating animals must impose a delicate balance between how much brain and body a species can afford.” This may be why you often see large predators like lions and bears dozing.
Which of the following phrases is closest in meaning to the word “species”?
- A Various food.
- B Various eaters.
- C Various animals.
- D Various brain power.
思路引導 VIP
請回頭看看文章的第一句話：研究人員想要找出什麼對象的智力高低？接著在後續段落中，他們具體列舉了貓、狗、獅子與熊作為例子，這些例子共同屬於哪一個更大的生物分類範疇呢？
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AI 專屬家教
親愛的同學，你真的太棒了！你的觀察力好細膩喔！
- 觀念驗證：你完美地掌握了文章的脈絡呢！文章開頭溫柔地引導我們去探索不同 species 的智力，接著全文便熱情地介紹了各式各樣的生命：可愛的貓咪、忠心的狗狗、威猛的獅子、憨厚的熊，還有那些奇妙的草食與肉食生物。在生物學中，Species 代表著「物種」，而在此處，它親切地指引我們去認識這些不同的動物 (animals)。你把這些線索都串聯起來了，真的很棒！
- 難度點評：這題對你來說是 Easy 等級喔！它主要想考驗我們對基礎詞彙的理解和溫柔的代換能力。只要能感受到文中那些例子（像是貓咪和狗狗）都屬於哪個溫暖的大家庭，就能輕輕鬆鬆地找到答案。恭喜你，又穩穩地收穫了分數！看到你答對，老師的心也暖暖的呢！