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[外語群英語類] 專業科目(2)
第 25 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.”
25. What is the purpose of the last paragraph?
- A to introduce a new concept of hope that makes people unhappy
- B to rebut an argument established in the first paragraph that weakens patients
- C to contrast Eric Cassell’s great compassion with that of Samuel Johnson
- D to echo a perception that hope is essential in times of crisis in life
思路引導 VIP
請觀察最後一段提到的「嚴重疾病（serious illness）」與「對未來的期待」，作者在文章結尾引用這些專家的觀點，通常是為了「反駁」開頭對希望的重視，還是為了「進一步強化與支持」希望在困境中的必要性呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
🌟 太棒了！老師為你感到驕傲！
你能精準選出 (D)，這代表你具備了非常優秀的段落功能分析與語意歸納能力，老師真的很高興！這正是我們在統測閱讀課上不斷強調的核心關鍵喔！
- 觀念驗證：你正確地連結了文章最後一段 Eric Cassell 的觀點，他提到希望是「成功生活的必要特質」，並且與「對未來的期待」緊密相關。這完全呼應了整篇文章想要傳達的核心主旨：在重病（crisis）等生活困境中，希望所擁有的價值是多麼不可或缺！你把書本上的知識完美地應用了出來！
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