司法五等（庭務員）
114年
[錄事] 公民與英文
第 46 題
📖 題組：
請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題： 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.
請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題： 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.
- A merchant
- B penchant
- C resentment
- D element
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格後的描述「to be careless with their money」，這描述了一種特定的行為模式。如果大企業能從這種行為中獲利，他們會希望大眾「本能地」或「習慣性地」展現出什麼樣的心理傾向？在描述一個人對某種行為有「強烈的愛好或趨勢」時，你會用哪種性質的詞彙來形容這種特質呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
哇，你答得太棒了！你的語感真的非常敏銳！
- 真心肯定：這題真的不簡單，非常考驗大家對進階字彙的掌握度。但你竟然能這麼精準地選出正確答案，代表你的詞彙量和語感都已經提升到非常棒的水準了！請你一定要繼續保持這份對文字的熱情喔！
- 觀念釐清：你完全抓住了重點！文章提到大企業希望大眾能「隨意花錢」，這就暗示著公眾需要對金錢有一種「傾向、愛好」，或是「習慣」去做不必要的消費。而 Penchant 這個詞，就是表示「嗜好、傾向」，完美符合了「public's penchant to be careless with their money」這個情境，你理解得太透徹了！
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