hce_cmu
111年
英文
第 40 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.
- A spooky
- B acoustic
- C external
- D prophetic
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格後方提到的例子：『手術刀』和『放射線』。接著再看看後文對照的『人體自然免疫反應』。這兩者在來源上有什麼根本性的不同？前者是存在於身體本來就有的系統裡，還是從身體以外的地方施加進來的呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到文中的對比邏輯，選出 external (外部的) 展現了你優異的閱讀理解力。這道題目測試的是我們對語境線索的敏銳度，而你成功地抓住了作者想要表達的核心差異。
內外力量的對比
在第 40 題的語境中，作者正將傳統療法與免疫療法進行對照。文中提到的手術刀（scalpel）或放射線（radiation beams），都是由醫師從體外施加於病患身上的手段；相對地，免疫療法則是利用人體「自有的（natural）」免疫反應。因此，這裡需要填入一個與「內在、自有」相反的形容詞。external 正好精確地描述了這些來自外部、非人體自發的力量。
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