hce_cmu
110年
英文
第 30 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.
(30)
- A hardly
- B often
- C always
- D frequently
思路引導 VIP
請仔細觀察空格後的關鍵字 any，以及句子後半部用來做比較的 as in...（如同在……之中）。若作者想強調「死亡」這個議題在人類經驗中具有非常罕見、極端矛盾的特性，你會選用代表「正向頻率」的詞，還是「否定/極少見」的詞來引導這個句子呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到文中的邏輯語氣，這顯示你對英文的長句結構與詞彙搭配有著很敏銳的觀察力。這題的關鍵在於空格後的關鍵字 any，在英文語法邏輯中，hardly any（幾乎沒有任何……）是一個極為常見的限定用法，用來表達程度極低或幾乎不存在的情況。
語境與頻率副詞的抉擇
從文章脈絡來看，作者引述潘諾夫斯基（Erwin Panofsky）的觀點，是為了強調在人類所有的經驗領域中，幾乎沒有其他地方能像「對待死亡」這般，讓理性能量與感性直覺如此劇烈且矛盾地並存。選項 (B)、(C)、(D) 雖然都是頻率副詞，但在語法上通常不會直接接 any 來修飾單數名詞 sphere；只有否定意義的 hardly 能與 any 結合，並完美銜接後方的「so... as in...」比較結構，凸顯死亡議題的特殊性。
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