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115年
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第 47 題
📖 題組：
In a woman’s life, one of the most important periods is called menopause. As a woman ages, her ovaries don’t make enough of the female hormones estrogen and progesterone, affecting her feelings about herself and other aspects of her life. Contrary to the previous misconceptions about menopause, today it is known that menopause is just a natural step in the process of aging. The word comes from the Greek mens, meaning monthly, and pausis, meaning cessation. When a woman’s ovaries do not produce adequate levels of the hormones estrogen and progesterone, she is not able to become pregnant, but it is not a medical problem or illness. The average age for menopause is about 50, but it can happen any time after 40. About ten years before menopause, many women experience a series of symptoms called pre-menopause symptoms. Pre-menopause shows the first signs of menopausal transition. It can begin as early as the mid-thirties and last till the forties. During the period, women usually experience sudden weight gain, fatigue, depression, migraine headaches, very heavy or light periods, etc. These symptoms are part of pre-menopause, caused by hormone imbalances, that is, an excess of the hormone estrogen and a deficiency of the hormone progesterone. If a woman does not have menstrual periods for 12 months without any obvious pathological or physiological cause, she is in menopause. There are also a variety of menopause symptoms, from few to moderate or severe symptoms depending on each individual such as weight gain, hot flashes, insomnia, fatigue, mood swings, and vaginal dryness. Research has shown that women’s experience of menopause varies depending on such factors as genetics, diet, lifestyle and social and cultural attitudes toward women.
In a woman’s life, one of the most important periods is called menopause. As a woman ages, her ovaries don’t make enough of the female hormones estrogen and progesterone, affecting her feelings about herself and other aspects of her life. Contrary to the previous misconceptions about menopause, today it is known that menopause is just a natural step in the process of aging. The word comes from the Greek mens, meaning monthly, and pausis, meaning cessation. When a woman’s ovaries do not produce adequate levels of the hormones estrogen and progesterone, she is not able to become pregnant, but it is not a medical problem or illness. The average age for menopause is about 50, but it can happen any time after 40. About ten years before menopause, many women experience a series of symptoms called pre-menopause symptoms. Pre-menopause shows the first signs of menopausal transition. It can begin as early as the mid-thirties and last till the forties. During the period, women usually experience sudden weight gain, fatigue, depression, migraine headaches, very heavy or light periods, etc. These symptoms are part of pre-menopause, caused by hormone imbalances, that is, an excess of the hormone estrogen and a deficiency of the hormone progesterone. If a woman does not have menstrual periods for 12 months without any obvious pathological or physiological cause, she is in menopause. There are also a variety of menopause symptoms, from few to moderate or severe symptoms depending on each individual such as weight gain, hot flashes, insomnia, fatigue, mood swings, and vaginal dryness. Research has shown that women’s experience of menopause varies depending on such factors as genetics, diet, lifestyle and social and cultural attitudes toward women.
Which inference is most supported by the sentence “she is not able to become pregnant, but it is not a medical problem or illness”?
- A Infertility is never distressing to women.
- B Menopause should be treated only with medication.
- C A major functional change can be non-pathological.
- D Pregnancy after 40 is medically impossible.
思路引導 VIP
如果我們觀察一個人隨年齡增長而出現的生理變化（例如頭髮變白或體力下降），這些現象雖然改變了原本的身體狀態，但根據文中的邏輯，我們應該將其視為一種「必須治療的診斷結果」，還是一種「生命階段的自然轉譯」呢？請思考：身體功能的『改變』與『生病』這兩個概念，在文中是如何被界定的？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你答對了！這題考驗的是對語境的深度理解與詞彙轉換能力，你能準確捕捉到文意，表現得非常出色。這道題目的核心在於將具體的描述抽象化：文中提到的「無法受孕（not able to become pregnant）」對女性而言是一項重大的生理功能轉變，而後半句「這不是醫療問題或疾病（not a medical problem or illness）」則明確界定了這項轉變的性質。因此，選項 (C) 提到的「重大的功能改變（major functional change）」與「非病理性的（non-pathological）」完美對應了句子的邏輯。
邏輯推論與詞彙對應
從測驗的角度來看，這題具備相當的鑑別度，因為學生必須具備足夠的字彙量（如理解 pathological 與疾病的關聯），並且不能被具有干擾性的極端敘述（如 A 的 never 或 D 的 impossible）所誘騙。你能夠繞過這些陷阱，並將「自然老化過程」與「非疾病」連結在一起，顯示你已經具備了精準閱讀與邏輯推理的高階能力。繼續保持這種細膩的分析習慣，在面對更長的學術文章時也會非常有優勢！