移民行政三等
114年
[移民行政] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 46 題
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請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題 Mark Bertram, 46, lost the tips of two fingers at work in 2018 when his hand became trapped in a fan belt. "It's life-changing but it's not life-ending," he says. "Doing work is harder now. Everything is just a little different." After two surgeries and occupational therapy, Bertram decided to make light of his condition by asking Eric Catalano, an auto-finance manager turned tattoo artist, to create fingernail tattoos. The idea made everyone in the studio laugh—until they saw the final result. "The mood changed," Catalano recalls from his Eternal Ink Tattoo Studio in Illinois. "Everything turned from funny to 'wow.'" When Catalano posted a photo of the tattoos, a pair of fingernails that looked so real no one could believe their eyes, he had no idea the image would eventually be viewed by millions of people around the world. The viral photo pushed Catalano, 40, further into the world of paramedical tattooing. Now people with life-altering scars come from as far away as Ireland to visit his shop. They enter Eternal Ink looking for the artistic healing they saw online. Using flesh-toned inks and a needle, Catalano transforms his clients' view of themselves. Leslie Pollan, 32, a dog breeder in Oxford, Mississippi, was bitten on the face by a puppy in 2014. She underwent countless surgeries to correct a scar on her lip. "Plastic surgery gave me no hope," she says. "So I looked for other options." She ultimately traveled six hours for a session with Catalano. He camouflaged Pollan's lip scar, giving her back a piece of her confidence. "You don't understand until you've been through it," Pollan says. "It made me have a different outlook on life." Using tattoos to blend in rather than stand out is a relatively new field, but it is growing, thanks in part to interest in cosmetic and plastic surgery. In fact, Americans spent more than $16.5 billion on cosmetic procedures in 2018. After tummy tucks, breast augmentations, and other procedures, some patients want to cover the scars that are a product of such operations.
請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題 Mark Bertram, 46, lost the tips of two fingers at work in 2018 when his hand became trapped in a fan belt. "It's life-changing but it's not life-ending," he says. "Doing work is harder now. Everything is just a little different." After two surgeries and occupational therapy, Bertram decided to make light of his condition by asking Eric Catalano, an auto-finance manager turned tattoo artist, to create fingernail tattoos. The idea made everyone in the studio laugh—until they saw the final result. "The mood changed," Catalano recalls from his Eternal Ink Tattoo Studio in Illinois. "Everything turned from funny to 'wow.'" When Catalano posted a photo of the tattoos, a pair of fingernails that looked so real no one could believe their eyes, he had no idea the image would eventually be viewed by millions of people around the world. The viral photo pushed Catalano, 40, further into the world of paramedical tattooing. Now people with life-altering scars come from as far away as Ireland to visit his shop. They enter Eternal Ink looking for the artistic healing they saw online. Using flesh-toned inks and a needle, Catalano transforms his clients' view of themselves. Leslie Pollan, 32, a dog breeder in Oxford, Mississippi, was bitten on the face by a puppy in 2014. She underwent countless surgeries to correct a scar on her lip. "Plastic surgery gave me no hope," she says. "So I looked for other options." She ultimately traveled six hours for a session with Catalano. He camouflaged Pollan's lip scar, giving her back a piece of her confidence. "You don't understand until you've been through it," Pollan says. "It made me have a different outlook on life." Using tattoos to blend in rather than stand out is a relatively new field, but it is growing, thanks in part to interest in cosmetic and plastic surgery. In fact, Americans spent more than $16.5 billion on cosmetic procedures in 2018. After tummy tucks, breast augmentations, and other procedures, some patients want to cover the scars that are a product of such operations.
According to the passage, why did Bertram want to get fingernail tattoos?
- A He wanted to downplay the influence of his misfortune.
- B He wanted to keep reminding himself of the accident.
- C He wanted to make people around him feel better.
- D He wanted to lay an emphasis on his injury.
思路引導 VIP
請觀察文中第一段 Bertram 對於受傷所說的那句話：『這改變了人生，但並非人生的終點。』接著看到他決定去刺青時的動機。如果一個人抱持著這種豁達、想開玩笑的心態，他會希望這個刺青是讓傷口顯得更醒目、更沉重，還是希望能用一種比較輕鬆、甚至帶點幽默的方式來平衡這種遺憾呢？
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AI 詳解
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太棒了！你能精準捕捉到文中的語意轉折，選出正確答案 (A) 真的很不簡單，這展現了你細膩的閱讀理解能力。
文本核心線索：Make light of
這題的解題關鍵在於第二段開頭提到的 "make light of his condition"。這個片語在英文中非常有深度，意思是「輕描淡寫」或「以幽默、輕鬆的態度面對（嚴肅或負面的事）」。Bertram 雖然失去了指尖，但他認為這並非人生的終點（not life-ending）。因此，他選擇刺上指甲圖樣，並非要強調傷疤，而是希望透過這種方式「淡化」（downplay）不幸帶來的沉重感，讓這件憾事在視覺與心理上都變得不那麼突兀。
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