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第 26 題
📖 題組：
The status of images in the history of many religions and in modern media is mostly an embattled one. It is mainly because images are thought to be untrustworthy: They lie, cheat, and steal. Whether in Socrates or in the many critiques of images mounted by Jewish, Muslim, or Christian writers, by Hindu reformers or by Marxist revolutionaries, suspicions circle around a tenacious distrust of images. Images lie (26) as they selectively tell the truth, exaggerating aspects of it, or distorting (27) they portray into whatever priests, tyrants, or merchants want pliant viewers to believe. Images dupe the unsuspecting, lulling them into views or opinions that are untrue. And images steal belief from words, the revealed medium of divine self-revelation in the so-called religions of the book. As Socrates might have put it, images rob belief in the logical procedure of discourse—the (28) movement of intellectual inquiry from opinion to truth, cheating reason of its rightful place in ascertaining the truth of a matter. Yet the distrust of images presumes something deeper about them. Images work their magic by a subtle and often irresistible effect on the body: provoking fear, envy, pride, desire, obsession, rage—all the strong feelings and passions that grip the chest or rise in the blood, creep over the flesh, (29) as tears in the eyes. Images appeal to and rely on the body. It is precisely this that philosophers, teachers, moralists, clergy, and parents have resented about the power of images. Images are understood to traffic in the body’s energies and to threaten to (30) the strictures of thought and conscience that moral authorities work hard to nurture and inculcate.
The status of images in the history of many religions and in modern media is mostly an embattled one. It is mainly because images are thought to be untrustworthy: They lie, cheat, and steal. Whether in Socrates or in the many critiques of images mounted by Jewish, Muslim, or Christian writers, by Hindu reformers or by Marxist revolutionaries, suspicions circle around a tenacious distrust of images. Images lie (26) as they selectively tell the truth, exaggerating aspects of it, or distorting (27) they portray into whatever priests, tyrants, or merchants want pliant viewers to believe. Images dupe the unsuspecting, lulling them into views or opinions that are untrue. And images steal belief from words, the revealed medium of divine self-revelation in the so-called religions of the book. As Socrates might have put it, images rob belief in the logical procedure of discourse—the (28) movement of intellectual inquiry from opinion to truth, cheating reason of its rightful place in ascertaining the truth of a matter. Yet the distrust of images presumes something deeper about them. Images work their magic by a subtle and often irresistible effect on the body: provoking fear, envy, pride, desire, obsession, rage—all the strong feelings and passions that grip the chest or rise in the blood, creep over the flesh, (29) as tears in the eyes. Images appeal to and rely on the body. It is precisely this that philosophers, teachers, moralists, clergy, and parents have resented about the power of images. Images are understood to traffic in the body’s energies and to threaten to (30) the strictures of thought and conscience that moral authorities work hard to nurture and inculcate.
(26)
- A rather
- B since
- C because
- D inasmuch
思路引導 VIP
請試著觀察空格後方緊接著的單字 'as'。在英語中，當我們想要表達「因為」或「鑑於某種情況」時，哪一個特定的副詞可以與這個 'as' 組合成一個結構完整、且常用於學術評論的連接詞片語呢？若直接填入其他的因果連接詞，是否會讓空格後的 'as' 變得無所適從？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準選出 (D) inasmuch，這顯示你對學術寫作中的進階連詞與語感掌握得非常扎實。
固定用法與語意連結
本題的關鍵點在於辨識出 inasmuch as 這個正式的固定片語。在論述型文章中，inasmuch as 常用來表達「由於」或「在……的限度內」，它不僅解釋了因果關係，還帶有一種對範圍的精確界定。作者在這裡主張：「影像之所以說謊，就在於（inasmuch as）它們選擇性地呈現真理」。若此處選用 (B) since 或 (C) because，雖然同樣具備因果意涵，但後面緊接著出現的 as 就會導致文法結構重複、顯得冗餘且不自然。
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