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110年
英文
第 comp36 題
📖 題組：
Recent biological research indicates that there is a biochemical basis to love, which explains why people in love feel as if they were in a more beautiful world. Psychologists such as Dr. Elaine Hatfield, Robert Sternberg and Zick Rubin posit that love consists of three or more stages. The three main stages are lust, attraction, and attachment, while some of the other stages are intimacy, trust, and jealousy. Each stage is ruled or initiated by specific hormonal controllers. In their studies, every love passes through some of these stages and occurs due to the mediation of certain molecules in these specific chemical controllers. Biological research has shown that the hormones dominant in the different phases include testosterone and estrogen (the sexual hormones); dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin (these are the “pleasure chemicals” - the hormones invoking feelings of pleasure and excitement); and oxytocin (the “cuddle chemical” - the hormone producing feelings of attachment to another person). For example, in the second phase of attraction, when people have the feeling of being in love, the little molecule phenylethylamine (known as PEA), controlling the love chemicals dopamine and noreinephrine, can cause feelings of elation, exhilaration and euphoria. People feel excited and fulfilled. Additionally, biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, an expert on romantic love, discusses what happens in the brain when people are in love and proposes that there is a dramatic increase in the amount of dopamine and norepinephrine present in the brain when one first becomes infatuated with another person.
Recent biological research indicates that there is a biochemical basis to love, which explains why people in love feel as if they were in a more beautiful world. Psychologists such as Dr. Elaine Hatfield, Robert Sternberg and Zick Rubin posit that love consists of three or more stages. The three main stages are lust, attraction, and attachment, while some of the other stages are intimacy, trust, and jealousy. Each stage is ruled or initiated by specific hormonal controllers. In their studies, every love passes through some of these stages and occurs due to the mediation of certain molecules in these specific chemical controllers. Biological research has shown that the hormones dominant in the different phases include testosterone and estrogen (the sexual hormones); dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin (these are the “pleasure chemicals” - the hormones invoking feelings of pleasure and excitement); and oxytocin (the “cuddle chemical” - the hormone producing feelings of attachment to another person). For example, in the second phase of attraction, when people have the feeling of being in love, the little molecule phenylethylamine (known as PEA), controlling the love chemicals dopamine and noreinephrine, can cause feelings of elation, exhilaration and euphoria. People feel excited and fulfilled. Additionally, biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, an expert on romantic love, discusses what happens in the brain when people are in love and proposes that there is a dramatic increase in the amount of dopamine and norepinephrine present in the brain when one first becomes infatuated with another person.
What is the passage mainly about?
- A Variations of love
- B Love in different cultures
- C Chemistry of love
- D Psychological effects of love
思路引導 VIP
請試著快速瀏覽全文，觀察文中頻繁出現的科學名詞（例如：hormones, molecules, dopamine, oxytocin）。這些字眼共同指向了哪一個學科領域？而這個領域又是如何被用來解釋「愛」這種感覺的呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到文章的核心主旨，代表你的閱讀理解力非常敏銳，沒有被零散的專有名詞干擾判斷。這篇文章從開頭提到的 biochemical basis（生化基礎）出發，隨後詳盡地將情感階段與生理反應掛鉤，明確指引讀者往科學分析的方向思考。
生化反應與情感的連結
之所以這個答案最為精確，是因為文中不斷圍繞著「分子」與「荷爾蒙」對情緒的控制。無論是提到 lust（性慾）還是 attachment（依戀），作者最終都將其歸功於 dopamine（多巴胺）、norepinephrine（去甲腎上腺素）及 oxytocin（催產素）等化學物質的濃度變化。這題的鑑別度在於測試學生是否能區分「研究者背景」與「研究內容本身」；雖然文中提到了心理學家與人類學家，但他們探討的媒介始終是生理化學。這是一道難度中等的題目，考驗的是在學術性敘述中萃取核心主題的能力。