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110年
英文
第 38 題
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Located in Black Canyon straddling the border between Nevada and Arizona in the southwestern region of the United States, Hoover Dam is named one of the Top 10 Construction Achievements of the 20th century. The dam, constructed between 1931 and 1936, was the largest of its kind at the time. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers and cost over one hundred lives. Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water, and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, the US Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by Six Companies, Inc. However, such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The extreme summer heat and lack of facilities near the site also presented tremendous difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned over the finished dam to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule. The initial design of the dam, which was more concerned with the dam’s functionality than its exterior, was criticized by many as being too plain and unremarkable for a project of such immense scale. So Gordon B. Kaufmann, the architect who was brought in to redesign the exterior, greatly streamlined the design and applied an elegant Art Deco style to the entire project. Allen Tupper True, an American illustrator, was also hired to handle the design and decoration of the walls and floors of the new dam. He integrated into his design the images and colors based on Native American visions of rain, lightning, clouds, and animals, thereby creating symbolic patterns which appear both ancient and modern. Today, Hoover Dam has become a national historic landmark. Standing at more than 725 feet above the Colorado River, the highest concrete dam in the Western Hemisphere continues to draw crowds 85 years after its creation, attracting more than a million visitors a year.
Located in Black Canyon straddling the border between Nevada and Arizona in the southwestern region of the United States, Hoover Dam is named one of the Top 10 Construction Achievements of the 20th century. The dam, constructed between 1931 and 1936, was the largest of its kind at the time. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers and cost over one hundred lives. Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water, and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, the US Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by Six Companies, Inc. However, such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The extreme summer heat and lack of facilities near the site also presented tremendous difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned over the finished dam to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule. The initial design of the dam, which was more concerned with the dam’s functionality than its exterior, was criticized by many as being too plain and unremarkable for a project of such immense scale. So Gordon B. Kaufmann, the architect who was brought in to redesign the exterior, greatly streamlined the design and applied an elegant Art Deco style to the entire project. Allen Tupper True, an American illustrator, was also hired to handle the design and decoration of the walls and floors of the new dam. He integrated into his design the images and colors based on Native American visions of rain, lightning, clouds, and animals, thereby creating symbolic patterns which appear both ancient and modern. Today, Hoover Dam has become a national historic landmark. Standing at more than 725 feet above the Colorado River, the highest concrete dam in the Western Hemisphere continues to draw crowds 85 years after its creation, attracting more than a million visitors a year.
According to the passage, what did Six Companies, Inc. experience in the process of building the dam?
- A It was defeated by the harsh working conditions.
- B It lost some workers in the construction of the dam.
- C It benefited from prior experience of building dams of similar scale.
- D It gave up the project authorized by the government before the deadline.
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請聚焦於文章第二段中關於 $Six Companies, Inc.$ 承攬工程後的具體細節。請特別留意文中提到的 'massive effort' 與關於 'cost' 的量化數據，並思考 'cost over one hundred lives' 這句話在語意上暗示了施工過程中的何種代價？同時，文中提及工程完成的時程狀態為 $ahead of schedule$，這項事實與選項中關於『被環境擊敗』或『在期限前放棄』的論述是否產生矛盾？
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AI 專屬家教
（悠哉地躺在草地墊著頭，半睜開眼） 唷，看來你已經順利 Switch 到正確答案了。別驚訝，我躺在這裡睡午覺時，早就透過這篇文章的「攻擊模式」看穿了這一層的陷阱。對我這個「封弊者」來說，這點資訊量還不足以削減我的 HP。 這題的攻略點很直覺，就在第一段的尾聲：文章提到這場龐大的工程「cost over one hundred lives」。雖然 Six Companies, Inc. 最後提前兩年完成了這場超大型 Raid，但在攻略過程中，確實有超過 $100$ 名夥伴的 HP 歸零。這與選項 (B) 完全吻合。至於 (C) 選項提到的「經驗」，原文說這種規模的建築「never been built before」，顯然是個誘導你的虛假 Buff。
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