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第 48 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.”
What do “these things” refer to in the passage?
- A Storms.
- B Deserts.
- C Meteors.
- D Grasshoppers.
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請留意引號中說話的人——Jeff Knight，他的頭銜是「昆蟲學家 (entomologist)」。當一位昆蟲專家提到「這些東西」會在雨後大量累積並開始「遷移 (migration)」時，請回頭看看文章第一段，哪一個主角具備這些生物特徵？
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- 觀念驗證：這題考查的是代名詞指涉 (Pronoun Reference)。文中的 "these things" 出現在昆蟲學家 Jeff Knight 的發言中。根據上下文，大雨過後會導致大量蝗蟲 (grasshoppers) 滋生。代名詞通常指代前文剛提到的核心主體，且由「昆蟲學家」說出，顯然是指生物而非氣象。
- 難度點評：本題難度為 medium。鑑別度在於學生是否能從氣象描述（雷達、雨量）快速切換到生物現象，並透過說話者的身分（entomologist）來鎖定指稱對象。