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114年
英文
第 29 題
📖 題組：
The Alaska pipeline starts at the frozen edge of the Arctic Ocean. It stretches southward across the largest and northernmost state in the United States, ending at a remote ice-free seaport village nearly 800 miles from where it begins. It is massive in size and extremely complicated to operate. The steel pipe crosses windswept plains and endless miles of delicate tundra that tops the frozen ground. It weaves through crooked canyons, climbs sheer mountains, plunges over rocky crags, makes its way through thick forests, and passes over or under hundreds of rivers and streams. The pipe is 4 feet in diameter, and up to 2 million barrels (or 84 million gallons) of 26 oil can be pumped through it daily. Resting 27 H-shaped steel racks called “bents,” long sections of the pipeline follow a zigzag course high above the frozen earth. Other long sections drop out of sight beneath spongy or rocky ground and return to the surface later on. The pattern of the pipeline’s 28 route is determined by the often harsh demands of the arctic and subarctic climate, the tortuous lay of the land, and the varied compositions of soil, rock, or permafrost (permanently frozen ground). A little more than half of the pipeline is elevated above the ground. The remainder is buried anywhere from 3 to 12 feet, depending largely upon the type of terrain and the properties of the soil. One of the largest in the world, the pipeline cost approximately $8 billion and is by far the biggest and most expensive construction project ever 29 by private industry. In fact, no single business could raise that much money, so eight major oil companies formed a consortium in order to share the costs. Each company controlled oil rights to 30 shares of land in the oil fields and paid into the pipeline-construction fund according to the size of its holdings. Today, despite enormous problems of climate, supply shortages, equipment breakdowns, labor disagreements, treacherous terrain, a certain amount of mismanagement, and even theft, the Alaska pipeline has been completed and is operating.
The Alaska pipeline starts at the frozen edge of the Arctic Ocean. It stretches southward across the largest and northernmost state in the United States, ending at a remote ice-free seaport village nearly 800 miles from where it begins. It is massive in size and extremely complicated to operate. The steel pipe crosses windswept plains and endless miles of delicate tundra that tops the frozen ground. It weaves through crooked canyons, climbs sheer mountains, plunges over rocky crags, makes its way through thick forests, and passes over or under hundreds of rivers and streams. The pipe is 4 feet in diameter, and up to 2 million barrels (or 84 million gallons) of 26 oil can be pumped through it daily. Resting 27 H-shaped steel racks called “bents,” long sections of the pipeline follow a zigzag course high above the frozen earth. Other long sections drop out of sight beneath spongy or rocky ground and return to the surface later on. The pattern of the pipeline’s 28 route is determined by the often harsh demands of the arctic and subarctic climate, the tortuous lay of the land, and the varied compositions of soil, rock, or permafrost (permanently frozen ground). A little more than half of the pipeline is elevated above the ground. The remainder is buried anywhere from 3 to 12 feet, depending largely upon the type of terrain and the properties of the soil. One of the largest in the world, the pipeline cost approximately $8 billion and is by far the biggest and most expensive construction project ever 29 by private industry. In fact, no single business could raise that much money, so eight major oil companies formed a consortium in order to share the costs. Each company controlled oil rights to 30 shares of land in the oil fields and paid into the pipeline-construction fund according to the size of its holdings. Today, despite enormous problems of climate, supply shortages, equipment breakdowns, labor disagreements, treacherous terrain, a certain amount of mismanagement, and even theft, the Alaska pipeline has been completed and is operating.
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- A undermined
- B undertaken
- C undergone
- D underscored
思路引導 VIP
若要描述一個龐大的建築計畫被某個團隊「接手並開始執行」，我們會說這個計畫是由該團隊所『承擔』的。請思考一下：在描述一個受託付、且需要正式宣告負責並開始動作的『任務』或『工程』時，哪一個動詞最能展現這種『承接重任』的主動感呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地掌握了詞彙的語境！這題你能選對 undertaken，說明你對商業或工程類文章的慣用語相當敏銳。在原文中，這句話描述阿拉斯加油管是私人產業有史以來「承接」或「進行」過最昂貴的建築計畫。動詞 undertake 常用於表示著手進行某項艱鉅的任務、計畫或責任，在被動語態中與 project（計畫）是極為經典的搭配。 這道題目的鑑別度在於選項的外型非常相似，皆以「under-」開頭，容易產生視覺干擾。例如 (C) undergone 雖然也有「經歷」的意思，但通常接在受詞之後（如 undergo surgery 接受手術），用來描述計畫被私人產業「承擔/開發」時，使用 undertaken 才是最專業且道地的用法。這屬於中等難度的字彙辨析題，測試的是你對詞彙「深層語義」與「搭配詞」的理解，而不只是字面的翻譯。