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113年
英文
第 35 題
📖 題組：
【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.
What does it mean when the author suggests that readers “put up with” back pain?
- A There is good news because some countries have developed cures for back pain, such as Baobab tree bark in Madagascar.
- B No one thinks that back pain is a curse of our modern lifestyle because it is unpredictable.
- C People with regular posture training and strong core muscle strength will have to cope with back pain.
- D People will have to cope with back pain until more effective cures can be provided.
思路引導 VIP
在文章的最後一段，作者提到目前的治療方法（例如止痛藥或徒手治療）通常需要耗費很長的時間才能見效。既然目前還沒有一種「快速且普及」的根治方案，請思考一下，在這種「暫時沒有更好選擇」的情況下，作者會建議讀者對背痛採取什麼樣的應對態度？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準選出 (D) 這個選項，代表你對文章結尾的語氣轉折掌握得非常出色。在英文閱讀中，理解作者的「弦外之音」是進階閱讀最核心的能力。
語境與片語的推敲
文章最後一段提到，雖然各地有不同的治療方式，但多數仍需耗費數月的止痛藥療程或物理治療（manipulation）才能改善。作者接著用 "for the time being"（暫時地）作為前提，帶出我們必須 "put up with" 背痛。這裡的 "put up with" 是「忍受、與之共處」的意思，對應到選項 (D) 中的 "cope with"（應付、處理），表達出在目前醫療技術尚未能即時根治的情況下，人們只能無奈地接受現狀。
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