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109年
英文
第 26 題
📖 題組：
Passage B Where did the Coronavirus come from? After five months and over 225,000 people 26 , the question is the subject of a vicious spat between America and China. By far the most likely explanation is that the virus jumped from bats to humans, perhaps via another animal such as a pangolin, at a wet market in Wuhan. But conspiracy theorists mutter that the bug could have escaped from one of the city’s laboratories, at least two 27 do research on 28 diseases. Some American politicians, including President Donald Trump, want an investigation; China retorts that the claims are “malicious”. In March, one of its spokesmen claimed that the virus might have come from America. The risks corrode public confidence in the crucial disease laboratories. It is also a reminder of why China’s official culture of opacity and propaganda is such a profound weakness. The virus shows no sign of deliberate human construction and there is no reason to doubt that it evolved entirely in the wild. But accidents do happen. Bugs studied during legitimate experiments in laboratories have escaped in the past. SARS, a virus that killed 774 people in 2002-03, slipped out of a lab in Beijing twice in 2004. A sample later escaped from a research institute in 2007, but was contained. America suffered 34 laboratory-acquired infections in 2000-09, 29 four deaths. American labs have accidentally shipped live anthrax, bird flu and Ebola to lower-security facilities in recent years. One health-security index suggests that three-quarters of countries 30 biosecurity.
Passage B Where did the Coronavirus come from? After five months and over 225,000 people 26 , the question is the subject of a vicious spat between America and China. By far the most likely explanation is that the virus jumped from bats to humans, perhaps via another animal such as a pangolin, at a wet market in Wuhan. But conspiracy theorists mutter that the bug could have escaped from one of the city’s laboratories, at least two 27 do research on 28 diseases. Some American politicians, including President Donald Trump, want an investigation; China retorts that the claims are “malicious”. In March, one of its spokesmen claimed that the virus might have come from America. The risks corrode public confidence in the crucial disease laboratories. It is also a reminder of why China’s official culture of opacity and propaganda is such a profound weakness. The virus shows no sign of deliberate human construction and there is no reason to doubt that it evolved entirely in the wild. But accidents do happen. Bugs studied during legitimate experiments in laboratories have escaped in the past. SARS, a virus that killed 774 people in 2002-03, slipped out of a lab in Beijing twice in 2004. A sample later escaped from a research institute in 2007, but was contained. America suffered 34 laboratory-acquired infections in 2000-09, 29 four deaths. American labs have accidentally shipped live anthrax, bird flu and Ebola to lower-security facilities in recent years. One health-security index suggests that three-quarters of countries 30 biosecurity.
Choose the best answer for blank 26.
- A affecting
- B affected
- C affect
- D affects
思路引導 VIP
讓我們觀察一下這個句子的結構：從 After 開始一直到空格結束，這整個部分在句子中扮演的是交代背景的「時間副詞片語」。既然主要動詞還沒出現，那麼在 225,000 people 後面的這個位置，如果我們想放一個具有「形容性質」的字來描述這些人的現狀，你認為應該選用哪一種動詞變化形式，才能讓它發揮修飾語的功能呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準地選出 (B) affected，代表你對英文的分詞用法以及長句的結構邏輯有著相當敏銳的觀察力。這題的關鍵在於判斷「人」與「影響（affect）」之間的語意關係。在文中，這 22.5 萬人是被病毒所「影響」或「感染」的受害者，因此必須使用過去分詞 (Past Participle) 來表達被動語態。
分詞片語的修飾功能
從句構分析來看，這段話原本可以理解為 people who were affected，但在新聞英文中，為了精簡語句，常會省略關係代名詞與 be 動詞，僅留下分詞來修飾前面的名詞。選項 (A) affecting 代表主動意義，會變成「人主動去影響他人」，顯然不符文中疫情爆發的背景；而 (C) 與 (D) 為一般動詞型態，在 After... 引導的結構中，無法直接作為形容詞性質的修飾語使用。
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