特殊教育
113年
英文
第 21 題
📖 題組：
When figuring out flood risk, it’s important to collect data on past flooding events. In some areas, detailed records of rainfall and stream gauges are available. But in regions that are dry or scarcely monitored, this critical information is missing. In areas without flood monitoring, local newspapers are excellent historical documents for scientists to make better risk predications. Areas that have experienced flooding likely have an accompanying local news story reporting the event, including what particular areas were flooded and the extent of damage. Researchers have now used these newspaper records to act as a validation for flood risk maps. Mohamed Yagoub, Professor of Geographic Information Systems in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and his team generated a flood risk map for the area surrounding Fujairah, capital of the Fujairah emirate in the UAE. In the dry UAE, flooding might not spring to mind as a regular event. But flash floods did occur in the UAE and were made worse by the closeness of cities to mountain foothills, causing loss of life and property damage in a short time. About 15% of the land was considered high to very high flood risk zones. Yagoub explained that his team wanted to find out if these high-risk areas had flooded in the past. To check their model, they turned to newspapers. The researchers used five local papers to find records of historical flood events. “Reading many newspaper reports and scanning them for flood impact is a challenge,” said Yagoub. “To automate this process, a Java program was developed to read the document files and extract important flood damage information.” Using the program, the team searched for words such as Fujairah, flood, evacuate, and water. From there, they gathered information on individual flooding events, including the general location, date, and what sort of damages occurred. The team overlaid the historical events recorded in newspaper articles on the map of potential flood zones to compare. They found that 84% of the reported floods were in high to very high flood risk zones. Yagoub said that the flood-prone area maps are a valuable database to share with government and nongovernment agencies for flood risk studies.
When figuring out flood risk, it’s important to collect data on past flooding events. In some areas, detailed records of rainfall and stream gauges are available. But in regions that are dry or scarcely monitored, this critical information is missing. In areas without flood monitoring, local newspapers are excellent historical documents for scientists to make better risk predications. Areas that have experienced flooding likely have an accompanying local news story reporting the event, including what particular areas were flooded and the extent of damage. Researchers have now used these newspaper records to act as a validation for flood risk maps. Mohamed Yagoub, Professor of Geographic Information Systems in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and his team generated a flood risk map for the area surrounding Fujairah, capital of the Fujairah emirate in the UAE. In the dry UAE, flooding might not spring to mind as a regular event. But flash floods did occur in the UAE and were made worse by the closeness of cities to mountain foothills, causing loss of life and property damage in a short time. About 15% of the land was considered high to very high flood risk zones. Yagoub explained that his team wanted to find out if these high-risk areas had flooded in the past. To check their model, they turned to newspapers. The researchers used five local papers to find records of historical flood events. “Reading many newspaper reports and scanning them for flood impact is a challenge,” said Yagoub. “To automate this process, a Java program was developed to read the document files and extract important flood damage information.” Using the program, the team searched for words such as Fujairah, flood, evacuate, and water. From there, they gathered information on individual flooding events, including the general location, date, and what sort of damages occurred. The team overlaid the historical events recorded in newspaper articles on the map of potential flood zones to compare. They found that 84% of the reported floods were in high to very high flood risk zones. Yagoub said that the flood-prone area maps are a valuable database to share with government and nongovernment agencies for flood risk studies.
What is the passage mainly about?
- A Causes of flooding in UAE.
- B A geographic approach to flood study.
- C Using news reports for flood risk detection.
- D Describing the procedure of preparing for floods.
思路引導 VIP
在解構「全文主旨題」時，我們必須找出貫穿各段落的「核心主題」與「研究工具」。請仔細思考：文章第一段提到的 $local newspapers$ 以及後續針對 $Java program$ 搜尋報導內容的描述，主要是在說明研究團隊利用哪一種特殊的「資訊媒介」來驗證其洪水風險模型的準確性？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！看到你選對 (C)，老師真的好開心，給你一個大大的擁抱！這代表你已經具備精確掌握文章主旨的能力，真的非常優秀喔！ 這題考查高中英文閱讀的核心素養：歸納主旨（Main Idea）。文章首段就破題點出，在監測數據缺乏的地區，「地方報紙」是研究洪災風險的極佳資源；後續則透過阿聯（UAE）的研究案例，詳述科學家如何利用程式分析新聞紀錄來驗證地圖。我們可以用邏輯式來理解文章結構： $$Main Idea = News Reports (Tool) + Flood Risk Detection (Goal)$$
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