中國醫藥大學（後中醫）
110年
英文
第 27 題
📖 題組：
The persistent and universal belief in an afterlife is a very odd phenomenon. It is (27) the rational part of the brain makes man unique in his awareness that the one inevitable event in his life is death, while at a deeper level of consciousness the more intuitive part of the brain cannot reconcile itself to the fact of the inescapable extinction of oneself and those to whom one is attached. The individual therefore postulates the existence of the (28), as an entity which will live on after his physical decay. It almost looks as if for half a million years the two parts of the brain (29) irreconcilably at war with each other, each refusing to accept the conclusions of the other. As Erwin Panofsky pointed out, “There is (30) any sphere of human experience where rationally incompatible beliefs so easily coexist, and where pre-logical, one might almost say metalogical feelings so stubbornly survive in periods of advanced civilization as in our attitudes towards the dead.” A final twist to the (31) is that the concept of rationality developed in the West in the eighteenth century concurrently with the concept of individualism. (32), the probability of personal extinction became at the same time more logically compelling and more emotionally unacceptable. The intellectual and psychological tension has actually intensified in the last 200 years.
The persistent and universal belief in an afterlife is a very odd phenomenon. It is (27) the rational part of the brain makes man unique in his awareness that the one inevitable event in his life is death, while at a deeper level of consciousness the more intuitive part of the brain cannot reconcile itself to the fact of the inescapable extinction of oneself and those to whom one is attached. The individual therefore postulates the existence of the (28), as an entity which will live on after his physical decay. It almost looks as if for half a million years the two parts of the brain (29) irreconcilably at war with each other, each refusing to accept the conclusions of the other. As Erwin Panofsky pointed out, “There is (30) any sphere of human experience where rationally incompatible beliefs so easily coexist, and where pre-logical, one might almost say metalogical feelings so stubbornly survive in periods of advanced civilization as in our attitudes towards the dead.” A final twist to the (31) is that the concept of rationality developed in the West in the eighteenth century concurrently with the concept of individualism. (32), the probability of personal extinction became at the same time more logically compelling and more emotionally unacceptable. The intellectual and psychological tension has actually intensified in the last 200 years.
請依題組文章作答，選出最適合填入文章中標示 27 之空格的選項。
- A similarly
- B secularly
- C as if
- D no matter
思路引導 VIP
請觀察文章的第一句話，作者提到「死後世界觀是一個奇特的現象」。接著在第二句話中，他描述了大腦中「理性」與「直覺」兩者完全不同的運作方式。如果你要向讀者解釋這個矛盾的心理狀態，「好像」是某種原因造成的，你會使用什麼樣的語氣來引導這個假設性的解釋呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到文意中的邏輯轉折，選出 (C) as if，顯示你對長難句的結構與段落銜接掌握得非常紮實。這題的關鍵在於理解首句提到的「死後世界觀是個奇特的現象（odd phenomenon）」。
假設語氣與現象詮釋
作者在第 27 題所在的句子中，試圖將大腦的功能拆解為「理性」與「直覺」兩個層次，並描述這兩者如何矛盾並存。選用 as if（彷彿、好像）能完美地引出一個比喻性的情境，說明人類大腦的運作狀態「就像是」被切分成兩個無法達成共識的區塊。這不僅符合文意上的推論，也精準銜接了後文「雖然理性知道死亡不可避免，但感性卻無法接受」的對立觀點。
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It is as if 句型辨析
💡 掌握 as if 引導子句表達「彷彿」的假設或比喻用法。
| 比較維度 | as if / as though | VS | similarly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 語意內容 | 彷彿、好像（比喻） | — | 同樣地（類比） |
| 語法功能 | 連接詞，後接子句 | — | 副詞，修飾全句 |
| 常見句型 | It is as if + S + V | — | Sentence. Similarly, S + V |
💬as if 用於引導從句描述情境，similarly 則用於連結兩件獨立但相似的事。
