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請依下文回答第 11 題至第 15 題 One of the ironies of modern life is that everyone is glued to their phones, but nobody uses them as phones anymore. Phone calls are becoming relics of a bygone era, the “phone” part of a smartphone turning vestigial as communication 11 , willingly or not, into data-oriented formats like text messaging and chat apps. The distaste for telephony is especially acute among Millennials, 12 have come of age in a world of AIM and texting, then gchat and iMessage, but it’s hardly limited to young people. When asked, people with a distaste for phone calls argue that they are 13 , especially given alternative methods of contact that don’t make unbidden demands for someone’s undivided attention. In response, some have been diagnosed with a kind of telephoniphobia among this set. When even initiating phone calls is a problem—and even 14 ones, like phoning the local Thai place to order takeout—then anxiety rather than habit may be to blame. But when it 15 taking phone calls, nobody seems to have admitted that using the telephone today is a different material experience than it was 20 or 30 years ago. The telephone used to be truly great, partly because of the situation of its use, and partly because of the nature of the apparatus we used to refer to as the “telephone”—especially the handset.
  • A inprobable
  • B informative
  • C intrusive
  • D instrumental

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請試著想像:當你正在專心讀書,突然接到一通電話。相比於可以稍後再回的簡訊,電話這種「強迫你立刻中斷手邊工作、奪取你當下注意力」的特性,會讓你感覺自己的私人時間被如何對待了?哪一個形容詞最能描述這種「不請自來且造成冒犯」的感受?

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  1. 觀念驗證: 這題的關鍵在於後方的補充說明:"unbidden demands for someone’s undivided attention"(對他人專注力提出不請自來的要求)。這句話暗示電話具有一種「強迫性」與「干擾性」。選項 (C) intrusive 意為「侵入性的、干擾的」,完美對應了這種未經邀請就切斷他人當下狀態的特質。
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