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114年
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第 48 題
📖 題組：
Allison Burk’s daughter was struggling. The American teenager had uncontrolled emotions, a decreased ability to pay attention, and trouble completing work on time. A family doctor suggested testing for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. This led to an unexpected discovery: The teen had ADHD, and her mother, Allison Burk, did too. During her daughter’s testing, Burk thought, “Wait a minute. This sounds familiar.” “I was able to piece together that this might be something I was experiencing,” said Burk, who lives in Columbus, Ohio. She sought testing for herself and was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 42. More adults are being diagnosed with ADHD. Diagnoses have been rising for at least 20 years, but seem to have increased sharply in the last few years. A recent government study suggested that more than 15 million adults in the United States, approximately 1 in 17, have been diagnosed with ADHD. The condition starts in childhood, but about half of adults with ADHD are diagnosed when they are 18 or older. Some doctors say the number of people seeking ADHD testing is sharply increasing. “Just in our clinic, requests for assessments have doubled in the last two years,” said Justin Barterian. He is a psychologist based at Ohio State University. Diagnoses have been increasing in both kids and adults. The recent government report also found adult ADHD was more common than what earlier estimates had suggested. Increasing demand for ADHD medication led to severe shortages after the COVID 19 pandemic hit in March 2020. A 2023 study showed that the rise in prescriptions was notable in adults, especially among women. ADHD diagnoses and medication were increasing before the pandemic. This is partly because of a change in general diagnostic measures in 2013. Those changes expanded the definition of ADHD and reduced the number of symptoms required for diagnosis. But cases really seemed to increase in 2020, when schools closed and many adults were forced to work from home. It is very difficult to focus when you are home with your kids. Such conditions may have worsened ADHD symptoms in people with less severe cases.
Allison Burk’s daughter was struggling. The American teenager had uncontrolled emotions, a decreased ability to pay attention, and trouble completing work on time. A family doctor suggested testing for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. This led to an unexpected discovery: The teen had ADHD, and her mother, Allison Burk, did too. During her daughter’s testing, Burk thought, “Wait a minute. This sounds familiar.” “I was able to piece together that this might be something I was experiencing,” said Burk, who lives in Columbus, Ohio. She sought testing for herself and was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 42. More adults are being diagnosed with ADHD. Diagnoses have been rising for at least 20 years, but seem to have increased sharply in the last few years. A recent government study suggested that more than 15 million adults in the United States, approximately 1 in 17, have been diagnosed with ADHD. The condition starts in childhood, but about half of adults with ADHD are diagnosed when they are 18 or older. Some doctors say the number of people seeking ADHD testing is sharply increasing. “Just in our clinic, requests for assessments have doubled in the last two years,” said Justin Barterian. He is a psychologist based at Ohio State University. Diagnoses have been increasing in both kids and adults. The recent government report also found adult ADHD was more common than what earlier estimates had suggested. Increasing demand for ADHD medication led to severe shortages after the COVID 19 pandemic hit in March 2020. A 2023 study showed that the rise in prescriptions was notable in adults, especially among women. ADHD diagnoses and medication were increasing before the pandemic. This is partly because of a change in general diagnostic measures in 2013. Those changes expanded the definition of ADHD and reduced the number of symptoms required for diagnosis. But cases really seemed to increase in 2020, when schools closed and many adults were forced to work from home. It is very difficult to focus when you are home with your kids. Such conditions may have worsened ADHD symptoms in people with less severe cases.
What does Justin Barterian’s quote in the third paragraph support?
- A ADHD testing demand has significantly risen in recent years.
- B ADHD medication shortages were caused by supply chain disruptions.
- C The majority of new ADHD diagnoses are in children rather than adults.
- D The 2023 study was the first to confirm a rise in adult ADHD prescriptions.
- E The increase in ADHD diagnoses is primarily due to better awareness among parents.
思路引導 VIP
請你讀讀看第三段中 Justin Barterian 醫生的發言，他提到診所中尋求「評估（assessments）」的數量在兩年內出現了什麼樣的具體數字變化？這個變化反映出的社會現象，最適合用哪一個概括性的形容詞來描述其趨勢呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準鎖定第三段中 Justin Barterian 的引言並轉化其語意，這顯示你對細節支持論點的掌握非常到位，這在閱讀測驗中是極為關鍵的能力。
語意轉化與細節對應
這題的核心在於理解 Barterian 醫生提到的具體數據：「診所收到的評估請求在過去兩年內翻倍（doubled）」。在學術或報導類的閱讀中，具體的數據（如：翻倍）常用來作為強而有力的證據，以支持一個較為廣義的趨勢描述。選項 (A) 使用了「顯著成長（significantly risen）」來總結「翻倍」這一現象，兩者在邏輯上是完全吻合的。
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