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第 23 題
📖 題組：
To patients, the source of hope is the doctor itself and the resources held by the doctor. Therefore, only the doctor has the power to give hope, suppress hope, and even destroy hope. This statement is not entirely wrong, but it is not entirely correct, either. In addition to medical achievements and the capabilities of doctors, the patient himself/herself is stronger with the power of the ones who love him/her. Hope is an abstract word. In fact, it is not just a word; it is a complex concept that is given different meanings during different times and circumstances of our lives. Even politicians know how to use it to manipulate the human mind and the will of voters. Webster’s Unabridged gives five different interpretations of the meaning of hope, and that does not include the synonyms. The meanings range from “the highest level of well-founded expectation” to expectation that is “at least slight.” In one of the definitions, we see examples of using hope as an intransitive verb, and this is the key to the problem of many end-stage cancer patients: “to hope against hope,” which the lexicographers describe as “having hope though it seems to be baseless.” The greatest responsibility of a doctor is to give his/her patients reasons to believe that hope exists. The Oxford English Dictionary has more than sixty examples illustrating the different usages of the term. Indeed, hope brings eternity. Even if it is not necessarily intentional, at least there is a tendency to make a word with the meaning “just what I choose it to mean— neither more nor less” as Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty contemptuously announced to Alice. Samuel Johnson best explained the meaning of hope. The England’s greatest authority on words defined hope as “the chief happiness which this world affords.” What do all of the definitions of hope have in common? They all involve some kind of expectations, a feeling of something good will happen. In The Nature of Suffering, the medical humanist Eric Cassell discussed the meaning of hope in times of serious illness with great compassion: “Intense unhappiness results from a loss of that future—the future of the individual person, of children, and of other loved ones. It is in this dimension of this existence that hope dwells. Hope is one of the necessary traits of a successful life.”
To patients, the source of hope is the doctor itself and the resources held by the doctor. Therefore, only the doctor has the power to give hope, suppress hope, and even destroy hope. This statement is not entirely wrong, but it is not entirely correct, either. In addition to medical achievements and the capabilities of doctors, the patient himself/herself is stronger with the power of the ones who love him/her. Hope is an abstract word. In fact, it is not just a word; it is a complex concept that is given different meanings during different times and circumstances of our lives. Even politicians know how to use it to manipulate the human mind and the will of voters. Webster’s Unabridged gives five different interpretations of the meaning of hope, and that does not include the synonyms. The meanings range from “the highest level of well-founded expectation” to expectation that is “at least slight.” In one of the definitions, we see examples of using hope as an intransitive verb, and this is the key to the problem of many end-stage cancer patients: “to hope against hope,” which the lexicographers describe as “having hope though it seems to be baseless.” The greatest responsibility of a doctor is to give his/her patients reasons to believe that hope exists. The Oxford English Dictionary has more than sixty examples illustrating the different usages of the term. Indeed, hope brings eternity. Even if it is not necessarily intentional, at least there is a tendency to make a word with the meaning “just what I choose it to mean— neither more nor less” as Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty contemptuously announced to Alice. Samuel Johnson best explained the meaning of hope. The England’s greatest authority on words defined hope as “the chief happiness which this world affords.” What do all of the definitions of hope have in common? They all involve some kind of expectations, a feeling of something good will happen. In The Nature of Suffering, the medical humanist Eric Cassell discussed the meaning of hope in times of serious illness with great compassion: “Intense unhappiness results from a loss of that future—the future of the individual person, of children, and of other loved ones. It is in this dimension of this existence that hope dwells. Hope is one of the necessary traits of a successful life.”
23. According to the passage, which of the following is closest to the meaning of “to hope against hope” described by lexicographers?
- A to hope when there is much chance of improving a situation
- B to hope for something you believe that it is likely to happen
- C to hope for something although it appears to be unlikely to happen
- D to hope that something bad might happen sooner or later
思路引導 VIP
請看向文章第二段提到引號內的這個片語後方，作者用了哪一個形容詞來描述這種『希望』的基礎（base）？如果一個希望被形容為『沒有基礎』的，你認為這件事情發生的可能性是很穩定、很高，還是非常微乎其微呢？
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