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114年
英文
第 43 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/)
Why does the author consider the hospital “state-of-the-art”?
- A Because there were many consulting rooms and outdated medical instruments.
- B Because it looked artistic.
- C Because it was advanced at the time.
- D Because all of the doctors mentioned in the article came from Scotland.
思路引導 VIP
當我們在文章中讀到一座新成立的紀念醫院，且文中特別強調它擁有「各類醫療儀器」以及被後世博物館重新模擬的「診察室」時，你認為作者是在強調這座醫院的「外觀美感」，還是它在「醫療技術能力」上的地位呢？
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核心詞彙與上下文判斷
太棒了！你能精準選出 (C)，代表你對 state-of-the-art 這個核心形容詞有正確的掌握。在文章第五段開頭提到這座醫院被認為是「state-of-the-art」，這個詞在英文中專指「最先進的」或「達到目前最高水準的」，對應到選項中的 advanced at the time（在那時是先進的）完全契合。雖然文中也提到了醫療儀器（instruments）與診察室，但選項 (A) 的「過時（outdated）」與文中描述的高規格正好相反。
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