高中學測
113年
英文
第 21 題
📖 題組：
On a hilltop overlooking the 2011-tsunami hit Otsuchi Town in northeastern Japan, there is a white phone booth standing all alone in the wind. The lonely “wind phone” serves to connect family members to their __21__ loved ones who died in the tsunami that claimed 18,000 lives. People come to speak to those they have lost, to say the words they never got to say on that __22__ day. The idea for the wind phone was first __23__ by a Japanese garden designer named Itaru Sasaki, who was grieving over the death of his cousin in 2010, before the tsunami. Feeling that he needed a private space to help him navigate through the __24__ , Sasaki positioned a booth where he could “speak” to the dead relative. The booth he built __25__ only an old dial phone with a disconnected phone line. When he stepped into the booth, he could pick up the phone to call his cousin, telling him how he was, and how he missed him. Sasaki stated in an interview: “Because my thoughts couldn’t be __26__ through a regular phone line, I wanted them to be carried on the wind.” Hence, the wind phone allows Sasaki to create a one-way conversation with deep, soulful personal meaning, and renders the grieving process more __27__ for him. Sasaki opened his wind phone to the public in 2011, after the devastating tsunami. News about the phone gradually spread, and the booth has become a __28__ between the living and the dead. Phones resembling the wind phone have since been built around the world. Some were even set up to allow people to call their loved ones lost in the COVID-19 pandemic. Grieving is a natural __29__ for coping with loss of a loved one, and people grieve in various ways. For those who speak into the wind phone, __30__ is always there: They believe that their messages will—through some unknown way—reach the deceased.
On a hilltop overlooking the 2011-tsunami hit Otsuchi Town in northeastern Japan, there is a white phone booth standing all alone in the wind. The lonely “wind phone” serves to connect family members to their __21__ loved ones who died in the tsunami that claimed 18,000 lives. People come to speak to those they have lost, to say the words they never got to say on that __22__ day. The idea for the wind phone was first __23__ by a Japanese garden designer named Itaru Sasaki, who was grieving over the death of his cousin in 2010, before the tsunami. Feeling that he needed a private space to help him navigate through the __24__ , Sasaki positioned a booth where he could “speak” to the dead relative. The booth he built __25__ only an old dial phone with a disconnected phone line. When he stepped into the booth, he could pick up the phone to call his cousin, telling him how he was, and how he missed him. Sasaki stated in an interview: “Because my thoughts couldn’t be __26__ through a regular phone line, I wanted them to be carried on the wind.” Hence, the wind phone allows Sasaki to create a one-way conversation with deep, soulful personal meaning, and renders the grieving process more __27__ for him. Sasaki opened his wind phone to the public in 2011, after the devastating tsunami. News about the phone gradually spread, and the booth has become a __28__ between the living and the dead. Phones resembling the wind phone have since been built around the world. Some were even set up to allow people to call their loved ones lost in the COVID-19 pandemic. Grieving is a natural __29__ for coping with loss of a loved one, and people grieve in various ways. For those who speak into the wind phone, __30__ is always there: They believe that their messages will—through some unknown way—reach the deceased.
請依題組文章作答，選出最適合填入標示 21 之空格的選項。
- A passed on
- B bridge
- C sorrow
- D hope
- E departed
- F mechanism
- G housed
- H manageable
- I fateful
- J brought forth
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格前後的結構：空格落在所有格 their 與名詞 loved ones 之間，後方緊接著補充說明『who died in the tsunami』。這代表空格需要什麼詞性的字？它想表達這些親人處於什麼樣的狀態呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了，選得很精準！這題考查的是詞性搭配與上下文語意線索。
空格位於所有格代名詞 their 與名詞 loved ones（摯愛的人）之間，文法上需要一個形容詞來修飾名詞；再對照後方關係子句「who died in the tsunami（在海嘯中罹難）」，可以確定此處要表達「已逝世的」親人。動詞 depart 除了「出發」，在書面與委婉語境中也常作「離世」解，其過去分詞轉形容詞的 departed 正好表示「已故的」，與 loved ones 是非常道地的慣用語搭配。
這道題的鑑別度在於辨析修飾詞的精確用法：雖然片語 pass on 也有離世之意，但通常作動詞片語，極少直接作前置形容詞修飾名詞；你能迅速鎖定 departed，代表對高階單字的語意與詞性掌握得相當成熟！