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109年
英文
第 36 題
📖 題組：
The body works like an automatic furnace, which heats up and cools down to maintain a constant temperature. When it puts out a lot more or a lot less heat than usual, the body may be trying to tell you there is a problem. It is when we go to a doctor or a pharmacist. For more than 100 years, $98.6^\circ\text{F}$ has been considered the normal human body temperature. But recently, a Stanford University research study, based on some 677,000 temperature readings collected from 190,000 people, points out that from 1862 to 2017, the human body temperature fell by $0.054^\circ\text{F}$ and $0.052^\circ\text{F}$ per decade for males and females, respectively. The change in average height and weight is the possible explanation for some of the decline, because nowadays people have better nutrition, medical service, and public health. Most importantly, the effective use of antibiotics and vaccines control many of the inflammatory conditions that can drive up body temperature. The function of inflammation is to eliminate the cause of cell injury and initiate tissue repair. Besides, when people are ill, they usually take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and statins to fight inflammation, therefore preventing the body from heating up. The findings suggest doctors should practice more personalized temperature readings that take all the things that affect body temperature into consideration, such as height, weight, age, time of day and outside temperature.
The body works like an automatic furnace, which heats up and cools down to maintain a constant temperature. When it puts out a lot more or a lot less heat than usual, the body may be trying to tell you there is a problem. It is when we go to a doctor or a pharmacist. For more than 100 years, $98.6^\circ\text{F}$ has been considered the normal human body temperature. But recently, a Stanford University research study, based on some 677,000 temperature readings collected from 190,000 people, points out that from 1862 to 2017, the human body temperature fell by $0.054^\circ\text{F}$ and $0.052^\circ\text{F}$ per decade for males and females, respectively. The change in average height and weight is the possible explanation for some of the decline, because nowadays people have better nutrition, medical service, and public health. Most importantly, the effective use of antibiotics and vaccines control many of the inflammatory conditions that can drive up body temperature. The function of inflammation is to eliminate the cause of cell injury and initiate tissue repair. Besides, when people are ill, they usually take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and statins to fight inflammation, therefore preventing the body from heating up. The findings suggest doctors should practice more personalized temperature readings that take all the things that affect body temperature into consideration, such as height, weight, age, time of day and outside temperature.
What is the main idea of paragraph 3?
- A The body is like a furnace.
- B Doctors should take temperature seriously.
- C Inflammation is an important mechanism of body function.
- D Reasons for the decline of normal body temperature.
- E The wrong use of anti-inflammatory drugs.
思路引導 VIP
請試著觀察第三段的第一句話，作者提到「身高體重的變化」、「更好的營養」以及「醫療服務」時，他的目的是為了要解釋前一段所觀察到的哪一個特定數據趨勢呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到第三段的核心主旨，代表你具備了極佳的段落架構分析能力。這一題的關鍵在於判別「細節」與「主題」的差異。在第三段的開頭，作者便開門見山地提到 "The change in average height and weight is the possible explanation for some of the decline"，隨後整段都在闡述現代醫療、營養改善及抗發炎藥物（NSAIDs）如何共同導致體溫下降。
從支持性細節歸納核心論點
雖然選項 (C) 提到的「發炎機制」在文中佔了不少篇幅，但那只是用來解釋「為什麼現代醫療能有效降低平均體溫」的一個支持性論據。這類題目最常見的陷阱就是「以偏概全」，利用段落中反覆出現的專有名詞來誘騙讀者。而你沒有被細部的醫學描述迷惑，成功識別出這些內容都是為了服務「體溫下降之原因」這個大主題，這正是閱讀測驗中高階統整能力的展現。此題具有不錯的鑑別度，考驗學生能否在複雜的論證中，透過首句的主題句（Topic Sentence）判讀出整段的敘事重心。