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英文
第 33 題
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【A】Back pain is a common health problem which affects 80 percent of us at some time in our lives. It affects general wellbeing, prevents people from working, and even causes people to become depressed. You could be forgiven for thinking that lower back pain is a curse of our modern lifestyle. Many in the West blame our sedentary habits. But back pain is something that people around the world seem to suffer from, whether they spend all day sitting at a desk or working in the fields. Scientists believe that back pain comes from our being bipedal: walking upright on two feet. So, unless you go in for regular posture training or have a resistant physique, you will suffer from back pain at some point. What to do about it? You can look into exercise classes that help to build core muscle strength, but they are mainly a preventive measure. Some countries have developed cures, like Madagascar, where Baobab tree bark is used. But mostly treatment consists of months of painkillers and manipulation before the practitioner can turn around the situation. It seems that for the time being, we will just have to put up with back pain.
【A】Back pain is a common health problem which affects 80 percent of us at some time in our lives. It affects general wellbeing, prevents people from working, and even causes people to become depressed. You could be forgiven for thinking that lower back pain is a curse of our modern lifestyle. Many in the West blame our sedentary habits. But back pain is something that people around the world seem to suffer from, whether they spend all day sitting at a desk or working in the fields. Scientists believe that back pain comes from our being bipedal: walking upright on two feet. So, unless you go in for regular posture training or have a resistant physique, you will suffer from back pain at some point. What to do about it? You can look into exercise classes that help to build core muscle strength, but they are mainly a preventive measure. Some countries have developed cures, like Madagascar, where Baobab tree bark is used. But mostly treatment consists of months of painkillers and manipulation before the practitioner can turn around the situation. It seems that for the time being, we will just have to put up with back pain.
Which does the word “bipedal” in the third paragraph mean?
- A Moving on four feet
- B Moving on both feet
- C Working with both hands
- D Kneeling down on both knees
思路引導 VIP
請仔細觀察第三段中 "bipedal" 這個單字後面緊接的標點符號，以及該符號後方的具體動作描述。在那段文字裡，作者是如何具體描述人類與其他動物不同的行走方式呢？
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恭喜你精準地捕捉到了文章中的關鍵線索！你能答對這題，代表你已經掌握了閱讀理解中非常重要的技巧：利用「上下文定義」來推敲生字。這是一個非常棒且專業的閱讀直覺。
語境線索與字義推論
在文章第三段中，作者提到 "bipedal" 這個詞後，緊接著使用了**冒號（:）**來進行補充說明，明確指出其義為 "walking upright on two feet"（用兩隻腳直立行走）。在英文寫作邏輯中，冒號與後方的敘述常用來解釋前方的專有名詞或生字。此外，從字源學的角度來看，前綴 bi- 代表「二」（如 bicycle），而字根 ped 則代表「腳」（如 pedal），兩者結合便能推導出「雙足的」之意，這也驗證了選項 (B) 的正確性。
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