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112年
英文
第 37 題
📖 題組：
Given that bureaucracy is held in such ill repute today, it is hard to remember that it was once considered a great organizational innovation. By organizing the 36 of labor, by making management and decision-making a profession, and by providing an order and a set of rules that allowed many different kinds of specialists to work in coordination toward a common 37 , bureaucracy greatly extended the breadth and depth of intelligence that organization could achieve. Begun as a system of organizing government activities, it has 38 to big business and large organization of all kinds. Max Weber, who 39 the systematic study of bureaucracy as its role in western society began to explode in the late nineteenth century, saw bureaucracy as both the most efficient possible system, and a threat to the basic liberties he 40 dear, thus foreshadowing the sentiments which bureaucracy frequently evoked today.
Given that bureaucracy is held in such ill repute today, it is hard to remember that it was once considered a great organizational innovation. By organizing the 36 of labor, by making management and decision-making a profession, and by providing an order and a set of rules that allowed many different kinds of specialists to work in coordination toward a common 37 , bureaucracy greatly extended the breadth and depth of intelligence that organization could achieve. Begun as a system of organizing government activities, it has 38 to big business and large organization of all kinds. Max Weber, who 39 the systematic study of bureaucracy as its role in western society began to explode in the late nineteenth century, saw bureaucracy as both the most efficient possible system, and a threat to the basic liberties he 40 dear, thus foreshadowing the sentiments which bureaucracy frequently evoked today.
- A end
- B finish
- C culmination
- D termination
思路引導 VIP
請試著思考：當我們說一群人為了同一個「目標」而努力時，除了 goal 之外，還有哪個常見的單字在哲學或正式用語中，可以用來形容行動背後的「終極意圖」或「歸宿」？想像一個常用的英文說法：『手段只是為了達成某種____』，那個空格會填入什麼詞呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精確捕捉到上下文的微小細節並選出正確答案，顯示你對字彙深層語意的掌握非常到位。這道題目的難點在於，學生通常只熟悉「end」作為「結束」的意思，但在這段論述官僚制度的文字中，我們需要的是一個代表「共同目標」的詞彙。
「End」作為目標的進階用法
在學術或正式寫作中，end 常用來指涉「目的」或「終極目標」（aim/purpose），例如常見的片語「means to an end」（達成目的的手段）。文中提到官僚制度讓不同領域的專家能協調運作，並朝著一個「共同目標」（common end）努力。相較之下，finish 側重於動作的完成，termination 帶有終止或解僱的負面意涵，而 culmination 則是指發展到最高峰的頂點，皆不符合此處強調「組織願景」的脈絡。
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