奶油小生艾瑞克

Score band 8.0

考題來源：Cambridge 11 Test 2

Reading: 36/40

passage 123: [0]/[0]/[4]

技術性失分(字尾s、拼音等原本應該可以拿分): 0題

*主要都是題意理解錯誤

Review

(1) 這次的錯誤都落在Passage 3，主要是時間分配錯誤，前面兩組花太多時間，加上最後一篇文章是講美學相關的，比較偏文學，也較多不熟悉的單字，使得理解上花費較多時間。

(2) 模擬填空的配合題還是罩門，因為這題完全就是考單字，許多意思相近的單字會重複出現在提供線索的文章句子裡，加上一開始需要花時間定位是文章的哪些段落有相關的線索，因此時間花費甚多且理解不易。

(3) Headings的分析也是頗花時間，需要專注在配對的名詞關鍵字上，要練習如何快速定位關鍵字(同義詞)

An undisputed answer to a question about the moai

配對提示：…has definitively proved the moai builders were Polynesians, but not how they moved their creations.

A theory which supports a local belief

配對提示：…archaeological evidence backs up Rapanui folklore.

(4) Section 3 的單選題也不容易，主要是題目裡的選項也很抽象

題目：…the writer refers to a shape-matching test in order to illustrate?

線索提示：…We certainly do have an inclination to follow the crowd. When asked to make simple perceptual decisions such as matching a shape to its rotated image…if they see others doing the same.

答案：our tendency to be influenced by the opinions of others.

題目：What do the experiments…suggest about the painting of Mondrian?

線索提示：…Mondrian’s works are deceptively simple, but eye-tracking studies confirm that they are meticulously composed, and that simply rotating a piece radically changes the way we view it…

答案：They are more carefully put together than they appear.

(5) 填空配對題

題目：…Neurological studies of the brain, for example, demonstrate the impact which Impressionist paintings have on our __________.

線索提示：The blurred imagery of Impressionist paintings seems to stimulate the brain’s amygdala…Since the amygdala plays a crucial role in our feelings…

答案：emotions (我選interpretation，但意思是an explanation or opinion of what something means )

題目：…She also observes that pleasing works of art often contain certain repeated ________ which occur frequently in the natural world.

線索提示：…appealing pieces both abstract and representational, show signs of ‘fractals’ — repeated motifs recurring in different scales.

答案：images (我選layout，但意思是the way that something is arranged)

(6) Section 3的YNNG題

題目：People’s taste in paintings depends entirely on the current artistic trends of the period. — No

線索提示：While the fashions of the time might shape what is currently popular, works that are best adapted to our visual system may be the most likely to linger once the trends of previous generations have been forgotten. (一些作品在流行結束後依然受人喜愛，往往是因為這些作品best adapted to our visual system。)

我選Not Given，但題目裡面的確有講到current trends (fashion)

Vocabulary

• raid: 突襲，突擊
• repeal: 廢除，廢止，撤銷（法律）
• feasible: 可行的；行得通的；做得到的
• mishandle: 對…處理不當
• starboard: （船舶或飛機的）右舷，右側
• hull: the body or frame of a ship, most of which goes under the water
• erode: 腐蝕、侵蝕
• degradation: 退化、降解
• obstruction: 障礙、阻礙
• timber: 木材
• protrude: 突出、伸出 to stick out from or through something
• uncover: 發現
• intermittently: not happening regularly or continuously; stopping and starting repeatedly or with periods in between 間歇的，斷斷續續的
• obscurity: the state of not being known to many people 無名；鮮為人知；默默無聞
• wreck: 殘骸、沈船
• excavation: the act of removing earth that is covering very old objects buried in the ground in order to discover things about the past
• salvage: to save goods from damage or destruction, especially from a ship that has sunk or been damaged or a building that has been damaged by fire or a flood（尤指從失事船隻、火災或水災中）搶救，打撈
• go-ahead: 許可、放行信號
• cushion: 緩衝、墊子
• radicalism:
• address problems
• disguise:
• serviceable:
• fragile:
• scenario:
• reach epidemic proportions
• privatization:
• at a steady pace
• carve: 雕刻
• ethnographer: 人物誌學者、民族志學者
• folklore: 民間傳說、民間說法
• scrawny: unpleasantly thin, often with bones showing 瘦骨嶙峋的，皮包骨的
• sediment: a soft substance that is like a wet powder and consists of very small pieces of a solid material that have fallen to the bottom of a liquid 沉澱物，沉渣
• lush: （地區）鬱鬱蔥蔥的，植被茂盛的、美味的；愉悅的，使感官愉快的、好的；（人）有吸引力的
• scarce: 難得的，稀有的，罕見的
• cannibalism: the practice of a person who eats human flesh, or the behaviour of an animal that eats others of its own type
• chieftain: the leader of a tribe （部落）酋長，首領
• sledge: an object used for travelling over snow and ice with long, narrow strips of wood or metal under it instead of wheels. It can be either a low frame, or a vehicle like a carriage pulled by horses or dogs. 雪橇
• haul: to pull something heavy slowly and with difficulty （用力）拉，拖（重物）
• contend: 競爭；爭奪、聲稱；斷言；主張
• manoueuvre: to turn and direct an object 操縱，控制
• replica: 複製品
• overrun: 氾濫、超過
• decimate: 毀滅，大量殺戮；大幅削減
• shrivel: （使）枯萎；（使）乾枯；（使）皺縮
• ingenious: （人）靈巧的；（物品等）製作精巧的；（方法等）巧妙的
• generous: （尤指超乎一般或期望地）慷慨的，大方的；寬宏大量的，仁慈的、（尤指超過一般預期）大的；大量的；豐富的
• genius: （尤指在某科學或藝術領域中的）天賦，天資；天才，天才人物
• reckless: 魯莽的、不顧後果的
• Only after…倒裝句
• undisputed: If something is undisputed, everyone agrees about it. 無爭議的；不容置疑的
• perceptual: relating to the ability to notice something or come to an opinion about something using your senses 感知的；知覺的
• renown: 聲譽、名望
• recur: to happen many times or to happen again 反復出現；再次發生；重新産生
• neuroaesthetics: 神經美學
• objectivity: 客觀性
• amygdala: 杏仁核
• shed light on: 闡明
• haphazard: not having an obvious order or plan 無秩序的，無計劃的，隨意的
• fluzzy: 模糊的
• doodle: 塗鴉
• caption: 圖片說明
• ambiguous: 模棱兩可的
• representational: showing things as they are normally seen 具象的；寫實的
• scrutiny: 細看，仔細審查
• decipher: to discover the meaning of something written badly or in a difficult or hidden way 辨認；破解，破譯
• deceptively: in a way that is deceptive (= making you believe something that is not true)
• deceptive: making you believe something that is not true 有欺騙成分的，騙人的；造成假像的
• meticulously: very careful and with great attention to every detail 嚴謹的，一絲不苟的；非常注意細節的
• intricacy: the quality of having a lot of complicated small parts or details 錯綜複雜
• fractal: a complicated pattern in mathematics built from simple repeated shapes that are reduced in size every time they are repeated 分形，碎形 （數學裡，利用簡單的形狀，將其不斷重複，每次重複都把形狀縮小，如此構成的複雜的不規則線條或圖案）
• motif: a pattern or design 圖案，式樣
• layout: the way that something is arranged 佈局，佈置，排列
• linger: to take a long time to leave or disappear 停留，逗留；徘徊