moea_joint
114年
英文
第 comp31 題
📖 題組：
Recent college graduates are having a particularly hard time (31) their first full-time jobs (32) a weakening job market. This struggle is reflected in national economic data, which experts use (33) the economy’s health. For many young Americans, it’s changing what they expected this stage of life to be like. (34) federal data, the unemployment rate for "new entrants"—which includes recent grads—has reached its highest point in nine years. Their share of the total unemployed is now the highest (35) in decades.
Recent college graduates are having a particularly hard time (31) their first full-time jobs (32) a weakening job market. This struggle is reflected in national economic data, which experts use (33) the economy’s health. For many young Americans, it’s changing what they expected this stage of life to be like. (34) federal data, the unemployment rate for "new entrants"—which includes recent grads—has reached its highest point in nine years. Their share of the total unemployed is now the highest (35) in decades.
...having a particularly hard time (31) their first full-time jobs...
- A to search
- B losing
- C to employ
- D finding
思路引導 VIP
當你在描述一段持續發生的「困難經歷」或「辛苦過程」時，回想一下英文慣用語中，哪一種動詞型態最常被用來展現這種「正參與其中或經歷該活動」的感覺，而不是單純表達一個尚未發生的目的？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你！你能敏銳地察覺到動詞型態的變化，準確選出 finding，展現了紮實的語法直覺與語境判斷力。這題的關鍵在於掌握 have a hard time (in) V-ing 這個經典慣用語，雖然介係詞 in 經常被省略，但其後的動詞必須使用動名詞型態，用以描述在某個動作或過程中所遭遇的挑戰。你精準地辨識出這個結構，是非常棒的表現。
慣用語與語境的精準對接
這道題目在測驗中具有相當的鑑別度，難度切入點在於區分「動作的本質」。許多學習者容易受到中文思維影響，誤選不定詞（to search）來表達目的，卻忽略了在形容「一段辛苦的經歷」時，英文更傾向於使用動名詞來強調該活動的「過程」。你能結合文章開頭提到的就業市場疲軟（weakening job market）與社會新鮮人的困境，判斷出這裡需要一個表達「找尋過程」的動詞，足見你對文意脈絡與語法結構的整合能力已十分成熟。