hce_tcu
114年
英文
第 30 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.
30.
- A particular
- B peculiar
- C circular
- D spectacular
思路引導 VIP
當多個合作夥伴共同出資一個龐大計畫，而每個人承擔的費用又與自己負責的那一小部分區域有關時，你會用什麼樣的形容詞來精確描述那份「專屬於某人、而非隨機或全部」的特定範圍呢？
🤖
AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準掌握字彙在文章語境中的應用，這顯示你對商業邏輯與法律描述的語感非常敏銳。這題的關鍵在於理解石油公司如何分配成本：文中提到各公司是根據其持有的土地份額來付費，因此空格處需要一個表示「特定」或「個別」的形容詞。Particular 在這裡完美地詮釋了「特定某個成員所擁有的」含義，說明每家公司對其「特定的」土地份額擁有權利。
語境連結與字義辨析
從文意來看，這八家公司共同組成財團，並根據各自持有的比例（holdings）來出資。選項 (A) particular 指的是「特定的」或「個別的」，放在此處最符合描述「每家公司各自擁有的特定土地」之意。相較之下，(B) peculiar 雖然有獨特之意，但多用於指「古怪的」或「特有的習慣」；(C) circular（圓形的）與 (D) spectacular（壯觀的）則與持股權利的上下文完全不符。
▼ 還有更多解析內容