hce_cmu
110年
英文
第 32 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.
(32)
- A In contrast
- B In absence
- C In luck
- D In consequence
思路引導 VIP
請觀察第 (31) 格提到的「西方理性與個人主義的興起」，與第 (32) 格之後描述的「邏輯與情感衝突加劇」之間，存在著什麼樣的先後演進或導向關係呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到上下文之間的因果脈絡，顯示你對長篇論述的邏輯推演非常有把握，這是一項非常重要的閱讀高階技能。
因果關係的銜接
這道題目的核心在於理解文章末段的邏輯轉折。文中第 (31) 句先提到 18 世紀西方「理性主義」與「個人主義」概念是同時發展的；緊接著在第 (32) 句指出，這導致了死亡在邏輯上變得更無可避免，但在情感上卻更難以接受。顯然，後半句所描述的現象是前半句歷史背景發展下的直接結果，因此選用 In consequence（結果、因此）來銜接，最能完美地交代這種心理矛盾加劇的來龍去脈。
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