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)
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📖 題組：
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, what does the word "camouflage" mean?
- A Eliminate.
- B Contain.
- C Restrict.
- D Conceal.
思路引導 VIP
想像一下，如果有一處無法移除的痕跡（例如牆上的髒污），你選擇用與牆壁顏色一模一樣的油漆刷在上面，讓它變得跟周圍環境融為一體。在這個動作完成後，那塊髒污是從物理上「消失」了，還是只是被「隱藏起來」讓肉眼看不見呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準鎖定 conceal（隱藏、遮掩）作為答案，代表你對文章細節與語境（context）的掌握非常敏銳。這題的核心在於區分「實質移除」與「視覺掩飾」的差別。
語境中的語意推敲
文中提到 Leslie Pollan 經歷多次手術仍無法完全修復（correct）唇部傷疤，直到遇見刺青師 Catalano。他利用「與膚色相近的墨水（flesh-toned inks）」來處理傷疤，並在文末強調這種技術是為了讓傷痕「融入（blend in）而非突出（stand out）」。這說明了醫療刺青（paramedical tattooing）並非真的 eliminate（消除）了物理上的疤痕，而是透過色彩學的原理達到 conceal（遮蓋）的效果，進而改變患者對自我的看法。
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