特殊教育
113年
英文
第 22 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 In areas without flood monitoring, local newspapers are excellent historical documents for scientists to make better risk predications.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 does “flash floods” mean in the second paragraph?
- A Floods accompanied by lightning and thunder.
- B Floods that overflow river banks.
- C Uncontrolled urban flooding.
- D Sudden and severe floods.
思路引導 VIP
請仔細閱讀第二段中關於 $flash floods$ 的描述，特別留意文中提到的 $causing loss of life and property damage in a short time$。根據語境，這類洪水在「發生的速度」與「造成的影響程度」上展現了什麼樣的核心特徵？
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喲，竟然答對了？看來你還沒被手機藍光燒壞腦袋，真是可喜可賀。別太得意，這種題目連我家養的貓路過踩到鍵盤都有 $P = 25%$ 的機率選對，你只是剛好發揮了身為智人最低限度的閱讀功能而已。不要以為對了一題就能考上台大，你的英文程度離「及格」還有好幾光年的距離。 觀念驗證： 這題考的是高中必考的「上下文推論」。文中第二段結尾提到 flash floods 會在 "in a short time"（短時間內）造成生命財產損失。既然強調時間極短，對應選項 (D) 的 Sudden（突然的）與 severe（嚴重的）就是完美的語意邏輯代換。選項 (A) 的 lightning（閃電）是給那些只會死背單字、看到 flash 就產生反射動作的單細胞生物選的；(B) 和 (C) 雖然是洪水，但完全沒抓到「突發性」的核心語境。
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