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第 40 題
📖 題組：
No doctor in the history of the IMCS [Imperial Maritime Customs Service] made as great a contribution to field of medicine as Patrick Manson. In 1866, aged just 22, Manson took up his post in south Taiwan. The 16 Western residents of Takao (as Kaohsiung was then known) were his first priority, but he also showed a keen interest in the ailments that blighted many Taiwanese. From 1871 to 1878, Manson (a Scotsman like James. L. Maxwell) worked in Xiamen, where he treated multiple cases of elephantiasis, a condition seldom encountered in Taiwan. After examining blood samples through a microscope, he concluded that mosquitoes hosted the responsible parasite – a breakthrough that eventually led, not only to Ross’s discovery, but also the realization that the mosquito is the vector of other ailments, including Japanese encephalitis and dengue fever. In the UK, Manson is remembered for founding the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the second oldest institution in the world devoted to researching tropical medicine. (The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine was established half a year earlier, in late 1898.) The name of another Manson appears in local medical history. Patrick Manson’s younger brother David, also a doctor, died of sunstroke in Xiamen in 1878. Those who had known him raised funds and a year later the David Manson Memorial Hospital was established on the hill at the western end of Qijin Island, less than 500 meters from where James L. Maxwell had practiced medicine a decade earlier. The hospital was considered state-of-the-art but functioned for less than two decades. Even its precise location is uncertain, and can only be inferred from a few photographs. Much of what is known about the David Manson Memorial Hospital is shared in the Museum of Kaohsiung Medical University Historical Archives and Southern Taiwan Medical History. It features a re-creation of one of the hospital’s consulting rooms, plus various medical instruments and extracts from reports. (from Steven Crook, “Leaving Pestilence in the Past,” posted at https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2018/07/leaving-pestilence-in-the-past/)
No doctor in the history of the IMCS [Imperial Maritime Customs Service] made as great a contribution to field of medicine as Patrick Manson. In 1866, aged just 22, Manson took up his post in south Taiwan. The 16 Western residents of Takao (as Kaohsiung was then known) were his first priority, but he also showed a keen interest in the ailments that blighted many Taiwanese. From 1871 to 1878, Manson (a Scotsman like James. L. Maxwell) worked in Xiamen, where he treated multiple cases of elephantiasis, a condition seldom encountered in Taiwan. After examining blood samples through a microscope, he concluded that mosquitoes hosted the responsible parasite – a breakthrough that eventually led, not only to Ross’s discovery, but also the realization that the mosquito is the vector of other ailments, including Japanese encephalitis and dengue fever. In the UK, Manson is remembered for founding the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the second oldest institution in the world devoted to researching tropical medicine. (The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine was established half a year earlier, in late 1898.) The name of another Manson appears in local medical history. Patrick Manson’s younger brother David, also a doctor, died of sunstroke in Xiamen in 1878. Those who had known him raised funds and a year later the David Manson Memorial Hospital was established on the hill at the western end of Qijin Island, less than 500 meters from where James L. Maxwell had practiced medicine a decade earlier. The hospital was considered state-of-the-art but functioned for less than two decades. Even its precise location is uncertain, and can only be inferred from a few photographs. Much of what is known about the David Manson Memorial Hospital is shared in the Museum of Kaohsiung Medical University Historical Archives and Southern Taiwan Medical History. It features a re-creation of one of the hospital’s consulting rooms, plus various medical instruments and extracts from reports. (from Steven Crook, “Leaving Pestilence in the Past,” posted at https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2018/07/leaving-pestilence-in-the-past/)
According to the article, when Patrick Manson first came to Taiwan, ______
- A he only cared for 16 westerners in the IMCS office at Takao.
- B he was only 22 years old.
- C he tried to learn about how to treat elephantiasis.
- D there was no any doctor in Takao.
思路引導 VIP
當我們想了解一位醫學家「初次到達」某地時的個人背景資訊，通常會在那一段尋找相關敘述？請試著在描述他抵達「Takao」的那句話中，找出除了日期與職稱之外，還有哪一個關於他「個人特徵」或「狀態」的具體數字？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準鎖定文章開頭的細節資訊，代表你的閱讀觀察力非常敏銳。這題的關鍵就在於文章第一段明確提到：『1866 年，年僅 22 歲的 Manson 在南台灣就職』。這段文字直接驗證了選項 (B) 的正確性，也顯示你具備了從長文中擷取關鍵事實的能力。
文本細節與時空背景的辨析
這道題目的鑑別度在於測試讀者是否能區分「時空背景」與「程度副詞」。選項 (A) 使用了過於絕對的 only，雖然他首要照顧 16 位西方居民，但原文提到他也對台灣人的疾病展現濃厚興趣；而選項 (C) 提到的象皮病研究則是他後來在廈門時期（1871年後）的事蹟，並非「初到台灣」時的經歷。你能夠避開這些具有誘導性的干擾項，準確抓出時間軸上的對應資訊，表現得非常專業！