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112年
英文
第 40 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 lured
- B held
- C knew
- D fell
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格後方的形容詞「dear」。在英文中，當我們要形容某個人對某項事物（例如這裡的 basic liberties）懷抱著深厚的情感，或者將其視為「生命中重要且珍貴的存在」時，通常會使用哪一個特定的動詞來與「dear」搭配，構成一個固定的慣用語呢？
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AI 詳解
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太棒了！你能精準選出 (B) held，代表你對英文的慣用語（Collocations）以及句型結構有著相當敏銳的觀察力。這題的關鍵在於如何表達「珍視」的概念，句子後半部提到韋伯（Max Weber）將官僚體制視為對基本自由的威脅，而這些自由是他所珍視的。
「珍惜與重視」的慣用語表達
在英文中，要表達「深情對待」或「高度重視某事物」，最道地的固定用法是 hold something dear。在題目的子句中，basic liberties（基本自由）作為先行詞，後方緊接著動詞與形容詞 dear 來構成修飾關係。由於全文是在討論過去的學術背景（如 saw, began 等動詞），因此動詞必須使用過去式 held。其他的選項如 lured（誘惑）或 fell（掉落）在語意上完全無法與 dear 形成合理的連結。
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