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110年
英文
第 30 題
📖 題組：
【B】 The planet needs China to curb its appetite for meat. In the first three decades of the “reform and opening” era the number of farmed animals in the country tripled. Raising them polluted water supplies and 26 scarce arable land. Around the globe, China’s growing hunger for red meat, specifically, has seen 27 beef imports grow 40-fold between 2010 and 2018. The boom threatens Latin American forests and Arctic ice caps alike, as cattle-rearing prompts land-clearing and emits greenhouse gases. To be fair, China’s 1.4 billion people are being asked to show a self-restraint unknown in the gluttonous West. Even now, in China where children yawn at dishes which their grandparents once saw only at weddings and high holidays, meat consumption per person is only half of America’s. But China’s government, too, wants its people to eat less meat. Obesity, type-2 diabetes and high blood pressure are 28 . To curb such afflictions, guidelines issued in 2016 urge adults to eat just 40-75 grams of meat a day, or about half the current national average. Market signals are also pushing shoppers to 29 . China’s most popular meat, pork, is nearly 70% costlier than a year ago because herds are being wiped out by African swine fever, a disease harmless to people but 30 to pigs.
【B】 The planet needs China to curb its appetite for meat. In the first three decades of the “reform and opening” era the number of farmed animals in the country tripled. Raising them polluted water supplies and 26 scarce arable land. Around the globe, China’s growing hunger for red meat, specifically, has seen 27 beef imports grow 40-fold between 2010 and 2018. The boom threatens Latin American forests and Arctic ice caps alike, as cattle-rearing prompts land-clearing and emits greenhouse gases. To be fair, China’s 1.4 billion people are being asked to show a self-restraint unknown in the gluttonous West. Even now, in China where children yawn at dishes which their grandparents once saw only at weddings and high holidays, meat consumption per person is only half of America’s. But China’s government, too, wants its people to eat less meat. Obesity, type-2 diabetes and high blood pressure are 28 . To curb such afflictions, guidelines issued in 2016 urge adults to eat just 40-75 grams of meat a day, or about half the current national average. Market signals are also pushing shoppers to 29 . China’s most popular meat, pork, is nearly 70% costlier than a year ago because herds are being wiped out by African swine fever, a disease harmless to people but 30 to pigs.
30.
- A intoxicated
- B benign
- C lethal
- D salutary
思路引導 VIP
請仔細觀察句子中 "harmless to people but... to pigs" 的結構。既然前面說對人類「無害」，而中間用了表示轉折的 "but"，再加上前文提到豬群正在被「大批消滅」(wiped out)，你覺得空格處應該填入一個性質正面還是負面的形容詞，才能最貼切地形容這種毀滅性的影響呢？
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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對比轉折，選出 lethal（致命的）這個答案，說明你對文意脈絡有極佳的掌握。這題的解題核心在於理解連接詞 "but" 所引導的語意對立：前半句提到非洲豬瘟對人類是「無害的」(harmless)，後半句轉而描述對豬隻的影響，結合前文提到的 "herds are being wiped out"（豬群正被大批消滅），便能順理成章推導出這種疾病對豬隻具有強烈的殺傷力。 這道題目具備良好的鑑別度，屬於中高階詞彙的應用題型。它不只考驗單字量，更測試學生能否從「正負向邏輯」切入觀察。在閱讀這類科普或社會評論文章時，觀察形容詞之間的對比（如 harmless vs. lethal）是快速破題的關鍵。你能排除掉如 benign（良性的）或 salutary（有益的）這類語意相反的干擾項，展現了相當扎實的閱讀理解與詞彙選用功底。