TPO5 插入題 - 英檢

※ 引述《ivan1209 (低調不忘高調)》之銘言：
: Pacific islanders ere variously thought to have come from North America, South America, Egypt, Israel, and India, as well as Southeast Asia. ■Many older theories implicitly deprecated the navigational abilities and overall cultural creativity of the Pacific islanders. ■For example, British anthropologists G. Elliot Smith and W. J. Perry assumed that only Egyptians would have been skilled enough to navigate and colonize the Pacific. ■They inferred that the Egyptians even crossed the Pacific to found
: the great civilizations of the New World (North and South America). ■In 1947 Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl drifted on a balsa-log raft westward with the winds and currents across the Pacific from South America to prove his theory that Pacific islanders were Native Americans (also called American Indians).
: Look at the four squares [■] that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the passage.
: Later theories concentrate on journeys in the other direction.
: Where would the sentence best fit?
: 可以幫我講解一下這題嗎??
: 我發現我插入題有時候解很快有時候卻很卡
: 沒辦法完全掌握
: 不過這些基本題不拿到要答對超過10題真的有點難
※ 引述《ivan1209 (低調不忘高調)》之銘言：
: Pacific islanders ere variously thought to have come from North America, South America, Egypt, Israel, and India, as well as Southeast Asia. ■Many older theories implicitly deprecated the navigational abilities and overall cultural creativity of the Pacific islanders. ■For example, British anthropologists G. Elliot Smith and W. J. Perry assumed that only Egyptians would have been skilled enough to navigate and colonize the Pacific. ■They inferred that the Egyptians even crossed the Pacific to found
: the great civilizations of the New World (North and South America). ■In 1947 Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl drifted on a balsa-log raft westward with the winds and currents across the Pacific from South America to prove his theory that Pacific islanders were Native Americans (also called American Indians).
: Look at the four squares [■] that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the passage.
: Later theories concentrate on journeys in the other direction.
: Where would the sentence best fit?
: 可以幫我講解一下這題嗎??
: 我發現我插入題有時候解很快有時候卻很卡
: 沒辦法完全掌握
: 不過這些基本題不拿到要答對超過10題真的有點難

這一段看起來有點長
不過這個段落 在前面有出過幾個考題2-5
所以應該有讀過了
問題應該在於出現很多地名

請不要緊張 讓我們來快速閱讀一下

1.句子插入題首先要瞭解要插入的句子
Later theories concentrate on journeys in the other direction

之後的幾個理論 著重於 其他方向的旅程

2.分析關鍵字
a.有later -> 插入點之前應該要出現另一個時間點比較前面的理論
b. theories 複數 名詞 所以之後應該出現兩個理論
c. in the other direction 插入點前面一定要出現 另一個方向
這就是預設的條件 全部滿足才可以插入
換句話說 我們主動的尋找可以插入的位置
而不是一邊閱讀一邊代代看
畢竟考試時間寶貴

3.開始讀文章

Speculation on the origin of these Pacific islanders began
as soon as outsiders encountered them
(,皆下來是長插入句 說明過去在缺乏各種資料個情形下 有很多猜測,)
, in the absence of solid linguistic, archaeological, and biological data,
many fanciful and mutually exclusive theories were devised.
請注意 作者用了fanciful 古怪.富於想像的
mutually exclusive 互斥的 theories
顯然作者的態度是 認為這些早期理論並不正確 這是第一個伏筆

Pacific islanders were variously thought to have come from
(條列各種說法 不用細讀)
North America, South America, Egypt, Israel, India, Southeast Asia.


4.比較插入點
■ Many older theories implicitly deprecated the navigational
abilities and overall cultural creativity of the Pacific islanders.
■ For example, ....

這個兩點都不能插入 因為在其之前都 沒有單一的舊理論被提出 也沒有提到方向

第一句只是說許多舊理論 都implicitly deprecated 含蓄地貶低了
太平洋群島居民的航海能力和綜合文化創造力 這個不是舊理論的觀點 而是作者的評論
我們之後會看到作者表明態度 先記得有這個梗


我們剩下兩個插入點
For example, G. E Smith and W. J. Perry (托福不讀或聽到到人 筆記只要寫 名)
assumed that only Egyptians would have been skilled enough to navigate and
colonize the Pacific. ■ They inferred that the Egyptians even ....
■ In 1947 Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl drifted on a balsa-log raft
westward with the winds and currents across the Pacific from South America
to prove his theory that Pacific islanders were Native Americans
(also called American Indians).

For example 之後出現第一個理論: from Egypt
這樣C 可以滿足我們的插入條件 a.
但是下一句They inferred that the Egyptians
還是在講同一個理論

插入句的意思應該可以看出它放的位置
前面是一個理論 後面是 另一個理論 (由b.c推出來)

因此C 錯了

剩下D

檢查一下D說的是from South America
正是另一個方向來源的主張

最後一句終於展現了作者想要說的話
Contrary to these theorists, the overwhelming evidence of physical
anthropology, linguistics, and archaeology shows that the Pacific islanders
came from Southeast Asia and were skilled enough as
navigators to sail against the prevailing winds and currents.

剛剛說有兩個伏筆 第一older theories 有舊就有新
這裡沒有明確寫New
但是作者用時態表示出來
除了插入句 是敘述事實用一般式 ,整段都是過去式
就只有最後這一句是現在式

the overwhelming evidence of physical anthropology, linguistics,
and archaeology shows (這些證據正是本段一開始長插入句 所說過去缺乏的證據)
中文就是 相對於過去的那些理論,目前有壓倒性的證據顯示
the Pacific islanders came from Southeast Asia and were skilled enough

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