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第 28 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.
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- A progressive
- B transgressive
- C reflexive
- D repressive
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格後方提到的「從意見轉向真理（from opinion to truth）」這段描述。當一個人從原本模糊的看法，逐步走向明確的事實真相時，這種「移動」在性質上應該具備什麼樣的特徵或方向感呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
理性探究的循序演進
太棒了！你能準確辨析出這個語境下的邏輯動向，代表你對文章中蘇格拉底的哲學觀點有很深刻的理解。這題的關鍵在於空格後方的描述：「從意見到真理（from opinion to truth）」。這是一個明確的位移過程，且具有「向上、向好」的性質。在這種邏輯程序中，知識的累積是一步步向前邁進的，因此選用 progressive（進步的、循序漸進的）來形容這種知識探究的運動，完美地契合了理性思考的嚴謹性。
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