奶油小生艾瑞克

Score band 6.5

writing: 29/40

passage 123: [5]/[2]/[4]

技術性失分: 1題

• …Whereas women use their entire brain to process noise, most men use the left hemisphere to do this.

Review

(1) 記得題目如果說要填2或3個字，別忘了檢查定冠詞(the)

• …whereas men generally show activity exclusively in the left hemisphere of the brain…

(2) 找到關鍵字後，要仔細閱讀前後文，尤其是形容詞

• …the males needed a slightly longer wavelength of a colour to detect the same shade as females, and that men were not as good at discriminating between shades.
• men are not as good, so women are better than men.

(3) 這一題我覺得有點問題，需要再詢問老師

• …but he is liable to divert his focus to any action taking place behind the person, for instance a passing pedestrian or vehicle.
• …Women, however, seem to alternate between looking at the other person’s eyes and body, and they are apt to be distracted by other people.

(4) 文章裡面已經有提到each，就代表雙方都有這個傾向

• …The fact that men do not discern, or have trouble decoding, nonverbal cues leads to each sex constantly misconstruing the other’s signals.
• A man may read a friendly smile as a piece of coquetry, for example, whereas a woman might wrongly identify a furrowed brow as a sign of anger rather than as an expression of concentration.

(5) 多選題中常常會出現跟內文不相關，但是用字又很類似的詞，切記不要被影響，只能選可以從內文中得到的結論

• The same skills are required for employment and housework. 看似好像跟最後一段的結論相關，實質不然：…We can’t have equality in work if we don’t have equality in the home.
• 文章中只能找到: Gender differences in the brain lead to different sets of skills.

(6) 文章理解錯誤

• …a belief that polite intellectual discourse in such institutions as coffee houses and debating societies constituted the most sophisticated expression of humanity’s capacity for development.
• 意思是：Enlightenment helped society to reach its full potential.
• 而非：Enlightenment was the highest form of human conversation.
• expression 跟 conversation 是不一樣的

(7) 填空題大多是填入專有名詞，如果一時找不到，記得再把上下文看清楚一點，通常都是言簡意賅的文字

• …As a result, ______ is not as popular as before.
• …writers began to reject the once-respected literary format of satire.
• 前面的once-respected literary format不是答案，而且字數也太長
• 雖然題目說答案可以填最多3個字，但不需要填滿，重點是satire

(8) 有時候找很久覺得找不到答案，相信直覺看關鍵字就對了(?)

• People should focus on what is important to them.
• …What is more important than experiencing the transient flush of happy feelings, he suggests, is moving through life in accordance with our core values.
• core values 跟 important

(9) YFNG真的滿困難的，要針對內文的意思做分析，記得跟內文傳達的意思有衝突才能算是False

• Sadness is an undesirable state. (undesirable = unwanted)
• …Scholars believe that we may be neglecting an important facet of the human experience. 這一段傳達出重要性，所以並不是unwanted
• People feel more energetic when they are sad.
• …Unlike other negative emotions…spike energy levels…sadness drains energy… 因此less energy
• Grief is not experienced very often in most people’s lives.
• 雖然文章中有提及，但並沒有提到how often

Vocabulary

• thalamus: 丘腦
• thalamic neurons
• cortex: （尤指大腦或其他器官的）皮層，皮質
• foetal growth: fetal的英式拼寫，胎兒的
• olfactory system: 嗅覺系統
• construe: 將…理解為；把…解釋為
• discern: 看出；辨別出；明白
• coquetry: coquette的英式拼寫；賣弄風情
• relevant: 有關的；相關聯的；正確的；適宜的
• transient: 短暫的，轉瞬即逝的；暫時的
• in accordance with: 依照規則（法律，意願等）