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第 39 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.
According to this passage, which of the following statements is incorrect?
- A Advances in medicine lead to the rise of normal body temperature.
- B After reading a patient’s temperature, the doctor should not rush to conclusion.
- C Inflammation heats up body temperature.
- D Stanford University’s research is based on the data collected over a long period.
- E $98.6^\circ\text{F}$ is a commonly-accepted normal body temperature.
思路引導 VIP
請思考一下：文章中提到發炎（inflammation）對體溫會產生什麼樣的作用？而現代醫療中的抗生素與疫苗，又是如何處理這些發炎狀況的？如果我們更有效地控制了發炎，這對人類長期的平均體溫會產生「增加」還是「減少」的趨勢呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
很高興你精準地捕捉到了選項與原文之間的矛盾！這題考驗的是細節理解與邏輯判斷的細膩度。這題的核心在於「因果方向」的辨析，你正確辨識出選項 (A) 的陳述與文章內容正好相反，這是非常優秀的閱讀觀察力。
醫療進步與體溫的關係
根據文中的第三段，現代人平均體溫下降（decline）的原因，除了營養與公共衛生的進步，最重要的是抗生素（antibiotics）與疫苗（vaccines）的有效使用。這些醫療進展控制了原本會「推升體溫」的發炎狀況（inflammatory conditions），進而「防止身體升溫（preventing the body from heating up）」。因此，醫療進步導致的是正常體溫的下降，而非選項 (A) 所描述的上升。
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