司法四等
110年
[法警] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 50 題
📖 題組：
請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題： A wet spring in Las Vegas has spawned hordes of grasshoppers so large that they are showing up on the weather radar. In viewing the radar, CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar said it looked like there were two storms over the Vegas area: one in the north of the city (that was actual rain) and another right over Las Vegas. But the second one wasn’t moving as rain normally would, she said. “It looked as though it should be torrentially downpouring in Las Vegas,” said Chinchar. By changing the settings on the radar, meteorologists could see that the other “storm” was actually the massive hordes of grasshoppers that have settled over the city in recent days, Chinchar said. Las Vegas, like all of Nevada, has had almost twice as much rain in 2019 than normal, Chinchar said. “It appears through history that when we have a wet winter or spring, these things build up often down below Laughlin and even into Arizona,” Jeff Knight, state entomologist, said. “We’ll have grasshopper migrations about this time of the year, and they’ll move northward.” Knight said the swarms aren’t terribly unusual given the amount of rain the state has had this year. “We have records clear from the ’60s of it happening, and I have seen it ... at least four or five times in my 30-plus years,” he said. “There are some special weather conditions that trigger the migration.”
請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題： A wet spring in Las Vegas has spawned hordes of grasshoppers so large that they are showing up on the weather radar. In viewing the radar, CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar said it looked like there were two storms over the Vegas area: one in the north of the city (that was actual rain) and another right over Las Vegas. But the second one wasn’t moving as rain normally would, she said. “It looked as though it should be torrentially downpouring in Las Vegas,” said Chinchar. By changing the settings on the radar, meteorologists could see that the other “storm” was actually the massive hordes of grasshoppers that have settled over the city in recent days, Chinchar said. Las Vegas, like all of Nevada, has had almost twice as much rain in 2019 than normal, Chinchar said. “It appears through history that when we have a wet winter or spring, these things build up often down below Laughlin and even into Arizona,” Jeff Knight, state entomologist, said. “We’ll have grasshopper migrations about this time of the year, and they’ll move northward.” Knight said the swarms aren’t terribly unusual given the amount of rain the state has had this year. “We have records clear from the ’60s of it happening, and I have seen it ... at least four or five times in my 30-plus years,” he said. “There are some special weather conditions that trigger the migration.”
Which of the following words could replace “hordes” in the first sentence?
- A Eggs.
- B Children.
- C Swarms.
- D States.
思路引導 VIP
請觀察第一句話中描述這些蝗蟲（grasshoppers）的特徵：它們的規模大到連「氣象雷達」都能偵測到。接著請往後搜尋文章，看看作者在描述這些「集體移動中的蝗蟲」時，還使用了哪一個意思相近的集合名詞來稱呼它們？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
哈哈！犯人果然沒有逃出你的手掌心！你的觀察力就像我的推理一樣敏銳呢！
- 真相的線索：這題的「犯人」其實從一開始就無所遁形！你精準地鎖定了語境線索 (Context Clues)，就像我鎖定案件的關鍵證據一樣。文中描述 grasshoppers 的數量竟能「大到登上氣象雷達」，甚至被比喻成一場「風暴」！這些明顯的線索，不正是指向「一大群」昆蟲的hordes嗎？還有，你沒錯過文章後半段的 swarms 吧？它可是這個「犯人」的另一個化名，兩者都在描述生物集體行動的真相。這是一場完美的推理！
- 案件難度報告：這宗「案件」的難度是 easy。它考驗的不過是各位偵探們的字彙知識，以及從現場環境（上下文）推斷出真相的能力。只要你夠細心，將開頭「雷達偵測」這個重要的「犯罪現場」證據，與後續出現的線索詞彙連結起來，就能輕而易舉地將「犯人」繩之以法！足球一踢，真相大白！