hce_cmu
111年
英文
第 36 題
📖 題組：
＿36＿ his diagnosis, Mike’s wife Veronica had made a full-time job of seeking treatment options for her husband. And as of last summer, when Mike’s doctors said they had nothing else to offer him, Veronica knew they’d have to widen their search. She ventured ＿37＿ the world of experimental therapies, treatments that haven’t been proven but are promising enough to be tested in people enrolled in clinical trials. She canvassed experts, called up cancer centers, and spent hours doing research online, ＿38＿ she learned about immunotherapy, a new approach to cancer that oncologists are calling the most promising in decades—and probably ever. Veronica read of an ongoing Duke University trial of a drug called pembrolizumab that is approved and used to treat melanoma and was showing early promise against cancers in other parts of the body too. It’s the same drug that just a few months later would send former President Jimmy Carter’s melanoma, which had spread to his brain, into remission seemingly overnight. In August 2015, Mike learned he’d been accepted into a trial for that same drug. In principle, immunotherapy is simple. It’s a way to trigger the immune system’s ability to seek out and destroy invaders. That’s how the body fights off bacteria and viruses. But it doesn’t do that with cancer, which occurs when healthy cells ＿39＿ to outsmart those built-in defenses. That’s where immunotherapy comes in. “Instead of using ＿40＿ forces, like a scalpel or radiation beams, it takes advantage of the body’s own natural immune reaction against cancer,” says Dr. Steven Rosenberg, an immunotherapy pioneer and chief of surgery and head of tumor immunology at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). These strategies don’t target cancer itself but work on the body’s ability to fight it. These therapies, administered in pill or IV form, trigger the immune system to fight cancer cells while keeping healthy cells intact. For someone as frail as Mike, that was an especially appealing prospect.
＿36＿ his diagnosis, Mike’s wife Veronica had made a full-time job of seeking treatment options for her husband. And as of last summer, when Mike’s doctors said they had nothing else to offer him, Veronica knew they’d have to widen their search. She ventured ＿37＿ the world of experimental therapies, treatments that haven’t been proven but are promising enough to be tested in people enrolled in clinical trials. She canvassed experts, called up cancer centers, and spent hours doing research online, ＿38＿ she learned about immunotherapy, a new approach to cancer that oncologists are calling the most promising in decades—and probably ever. Veronica read of an ongoing Duke University trial of a drug called pembrolizumab that is approved and used to treat melanoma and was showing early promise against cancers in other parts of the body too. It’s the same drug that just a few months later would send former President Jimmy Carter’s melanoma, which had spread to his brain, into remission seemingly overnight. In August 2015, Mike learned he’d been accepted into a trial for that same drug. In principle, immunotherapy is simple. It’s a way to trigger the immune system’s ability to seek out and destroy invaders. That’s how the body fights off bacteria and viruses. But it doesn’t do that with cancer, which occurs when healthy cells ＿39＿ to outsmart those built-in defenses. That’s where immunotherapy comes in. “Instead of using ＿40＿ forces, like a scalpel or radiation beams, it takes advantage of the body’s own natural immune reaction against cancer,” says Dr. Steven Rosenberg, an immunotherapy pioneer and chief of surgery and head of tumor immunology at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). These strategies don’t target cancer itself but work on the body’s ability to fight it. These therapies, administered in pill or IV form, trigger the immune system to fight cancer cells while keeping healthy cells intact. For someone as frail as Mike, that was an especially appealing prospect.
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思路引導 VIP
請先觀察空格後方的 'his diagnosis' 是什麼詞性？接著看看逗號後面的主句描述，Veronica 尋找療法的行為是一個『瞬間發生的動作』，還是一個『從某個起點開始並持續一段時間』的過程呢？如果你的目的是要引出這段過程的『起點』，你會選擇哪種性質的詞彙來引導它？
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AI 專屬家教
看到你精準地選出這個答案，老師覺得你對時態的關聯性與介系詞用法掌握得相當紮實！這題的關鍵在於觀察主句的動詞時態「had made」（過去完成式），這代表 Veronica 的努力是從過去某個起點開始，並持續了一段時間，這與選項中表達時間起點的語法結構完美契合。
語法結構與語意邏輯
在語法判斷上，這裡的 Since 作為介系詞使用，後方銜接名詞「his diagnosis」（他的診斷），用來表達「自從診斷出的那刻起」。這樣的用法不僅在語法上成立，更在語意上點出了 Veronica 踏上尋找療法之路的開端。相比之下，若選擇 Because，後方必須接完整的子句，若要接名詞則必須改為 Because of；而 When 則多用於描述特定時間點發生的單一事件，較難像 Since 這樣與強調「持續性」的完成式產生強烈的邏輯連結。
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