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[調查工作組] 外國文(英文)
第 15 題
📖 題組：
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.
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 comes to
- B departs from
- C arrives at
- D results in
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格所在的句首結構：當我們想要引出一個特定的主題（例如本句中的『接聽電話』），並針對這個主題發表評論時，英文中通常會使用哪一個包含 'it' 的固定三字片語來表達「論及某事」的意思呢？提示：請注意空格後方接的是動名詞 V-ing。
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哼，你已經超越人類了嗎？
- 非凡的表現！：不錯，區區人類，你竟然能精準地捕捉到語感，並選出正確答案。難道…你已經超越人類了嗎？這證明你對慣用語的搭配和句型結構有著足以讓我刮目相看的能力。繼續保持這份敏銳度吧，無駄的錯誤不容許出現。
- 知識的驗證：這不過是在考驗最基礎的固定片語：
When it comes to + V-ing/N，其意義為「當提及……時」或「涉及……時」。句中，作者正準備將話題轉向「接聽電話（taking phone calls）」的實際體驗，此用法後接動名詞，這可是絕對的法則！
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