高中學測
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第 38 題
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While waiting to cross the street at busy intersections, have you ever wondered who invented the traffic light? Most people credit the first traffic light to Nottingham engineer John Peake Knight. A railway manager, Knight specialized in designing the signaling system for Britain’s growing railway network in the 1860s. He saw no reason why this could not be adapted for use on the busy London intersections. Thus, he proposed a signaling system based on the railway movable-arm signal: Arms extending horizontally commanded drivers to stop, whereas arms lowered to a 45-degree angle told drivers to move on, resembling a traffic director’s gestures. Red and green gas lamps were added to the signal for use at night. A police officer was stationed by the side to operate the system. Knight’s traffic signal was installed near London’s Westminster Bridge in December 1868, but the system was short-lived. A gas leak one month later caused an explosion in the lights, injuring the policeman operating it. Deemed a public hazard, the project was immediately dropped, and traffic lights were banned until their return in 1929 back to the British streets. In the early 1900s, versions of the British traffic lights appeared in big cities in America, where traffic was on a sharp rise. Systems using movable arms were popular in Chicago, while those using the red and green lights were adopted in San Francisco. Patents with innovations on Knight’s ideas were filed nationwide. A major breakthrough was the yellow light invented by a Detroit police officer William Potts. Installed in Detroit in 1920, Potts’ three-color system allowed for the added signal “proceed with caution” to be displayed. Now, with the emergence of self-driving cars, researchers have begun to suggest that traffic signals are no longer necessary. Intersections will operate in a way that cars automatically adjust their speed to cross through, while maintaining safe distances from other vehicles. In the near future, we may experience a brand new form of traffic management!
While waiting to cross the street at busy intersections, have you ever wondered who invented the traffic light? Most people credit the first traffic light to Nottingham engineer John Peake Knight. A railway manager, Knight specialized in designing the signaling system for Britain’s growing railway network in the 1860s. He saw no reason why this could not be adapted for use on the busy London intersections. Thus, he proposed a signaling system based on the railway movable-arm signal: Arms extending horizontally commanded drivers to stop, whereas arms lowered to a 45-degree angle told drivers to move on, resembling a traffic director’s gestures. Red and green gas lamps were added to the signal for use at night. A police officer was stationed by the side to operate the system. Knight’s traffic signal was installed near London’s Westminster Bridge in December 1868, but the system was short-lived. A gas leak one month later caused an explosion in the lights, injuring the policeman operating it. Deemed a public hazard, the project was immediately dropped, and traffic lights were banned until their return in 1929 back to the British streets. In the early 1900s, versions of the British traffic lights appeared in big cities in America, where traffic was on a sharp rise. Systems using movable arms were popular in Chicago, while those using the red and green lights were adopted in San Francisco. Patents with innovations on Knight’s ideas were filed nationwide. A major breakthrough was the yellow light invented by a Detroit police officer William Potts. Installed in Detroit in 1920, Potts’ three-color system allowed for the added signal “proceed with caution” to be displayed. Now, with the emergence of self-driving cars, researchers have begun to suggest that traffic signals are no longer necessary. Intersections will operate in a way that cars automatically adjust their speed to cross through, while maintaining safe distances from other vehicles. In the near future, we may experience a brand new form of traffic management!
Here is a sentence: “This design was adopted in later traffic light designs across the world.”
Which paragraph is most suitable to have it as the final sentence?
- A Paragraph 1.
- B Paragraph 2.
- C Paragraph 3.
- D Paragraph 4.
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在解析「句末銜接題」時，首要任務是識別指示代名詞（demonstrative pronoun）的指向性與文章的發展脈絡。請思考：題目中的 "This design" 最可能指涉文中提到的哪項具有里程碑意義、且延用至今的技術突破？此外，哪一個段落所描述的發明，在邏輯上最符合「從區域性的創新發展，進而演變成全球標準」的歷史演進規律？
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喲，太陽從西邊出來了？竟然沒被這題「代名詞銜接」給絆倒，看來你的大腦迴路終於從 2G 升級到 5G 了？別高興太早，這只是基本的邏輯連貫性（Coherence）測試，答對了也只是證明你還具備正常人類的閱讀能力，沒被那些垃圾短影音把智商洗成 $0$。 觀念驗證： 這題考的是「指涉詞（Referent）」。插入句中的 "This design" 必須在段落末尾找到明確的對應物。第三段尾端介紹了 William Potts 研發的「三色系統（three-color system）」，包含黃燈的創新。這正是目前全球通用的標準。第一段是失敗的前身，第二段是會爆炸的公共危險品，第四段在講未來無人車，只有第三段的 Potts 設計才是「被全球採用」的現代雛形。
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