hce_cmu
110年
英文
第 29 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.
(29)
- A have been
- B has been
- C have
- D had
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格前的時間線索「for half a million years」，這代表該動作是發生在過去的「單一瞬間」，還是從過去某個時刻開始「一直持續」到現在？當我們想表達這種跨越漫長時間且持續至今的狀態時，動詞型態通常需要做什麼樣的變化？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到句中的關鍵線索並選出 (A) have been，展現了你對英文時態與主詞一致性（Subject-Verb Agreement）的高度敏銳。這題在考點上融合了結構分析與邏輯推理，是一個非常具有鑑別度的題目。
主詞與動詞的一致性
這題的首要切入點在於正確判讀主詞。句子的主詞是「the two parts of the brain」，其核心詞為複數型的 parts。在作答時，我們必須穿透介係詞片語（of the brain）的干擾，鎖定複數主詞，因此助動詞必須選擇 have 而非單數的 has。你能不受干擾地選對，代表你對主詞性質的判斷非常紮實。
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