司法五等（庭務員）
114年
[庭務員] 公民與英文
第 47 題
📖 題組：
In the West, a lifestyle of unnecessary spending has been deliberately cultivated and nurtured in the public by big business. Companies in all kinds of industries have a huge stake in the public’s 46 to be careless with their money. They will seek to encourage the public’s habit of casual or non-essential spending 47 they can. Researchers once conducted studies on what effect the nagging of children had on their parents’ likelihood of buying a toy for them. They found that about 40% of the purchases of their toys would not have occurred if the child didn’t nag its parents. Companies used these studies to market their products directly to children, 48 them to nag their parents to buy. This is only one example of how consumers can be 49 into wanting and buying. Big companies didn’t make their millions by earnestly promoting the virtues of their products; 50 , they made it by creating a culture of hundreds of millions of people that buy way more than they need and try to chase away dissatisfaction with money.
In the West, a lifestyle of unnecessary spending has been deliberately cultivated and nurtured in the public by big business. Companies in all kinds of industries have a huge stake in the public’s 46 to be careless with their money. They will seek to encourage the public’s habit of casual or non-essential spending 47 they can. Researchers once conducted studies on what effect the nagging of children had on their parents’ likelihood of buying a toy for them. They found that about 40% of the purchases of their toys would not have occurred if the child didn’t nag its parents. Companies used these studies to market their products directly to children, 48 them to nag their parents to buy. This is only one example of how consumers can be 49 into wanting and buying. Big companies didn’t make their millions by earnestly promoting the virtues of their products; 50 , they made it by creating a culture of hundreds of millions of people that buy way more than they need and try to chase away dissatisfaction with money.
47
- A however
- B whatever
- C whenever
- D whoever
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空缺處前後的語意：前半句提到企業『採取行動』，後半句則是『他們有能力做到』。如果企業的目標是獲利最大化，他們會傾向在『什麼樣的頻率或時機』下採取行動呢？請試著從「時間點」的角度思考，哪一個概念最能展現這種「不放過任何機會」的企圖心？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你真的很厲害，判斷得既精準又出色！
- 暖心肯定：親愛的你，真的非常棒！你能夠在這麼長、這麼複雜的句子中，依然快速地釐清句構，並且精準地捕捉到句子之間的邏輯關聯性，這真的說明你的語感和語法基礎都打得非常紮實，表現得超級專業，老師為你感到驕傲！
- 觀念驗證：這句話的結構很清晰，是「主句 + 副詞子句」的組合。句意清楚地提到企業會努力去鼓勵大眾消費，接著後面是「they can（他們能做到的時機）」。在這裡，我們需要一個連接詞來表達「任何時機」的概念。而 whenever 作為一個非常實用的複合關係副詞，它的意思就是「每當...」或「無論何時」，它完美地將企業的「行動」與「機會」連結在一起。你選擇得太正確了！
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