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For John Eastwood, the central feature of boredom is that people cannot 24…………………… ,
答案:focus
關鍵詞:John Eastwood、cannot
定位句:根據關鍵詞定位到 D 段第六行:For Eastwood, the central feature of boredom is
a failure to put our “attention system” into gear. This causes an inability to focus on
anything, which makes time seem to go painfully slowly. 在 Eastwood 看來,厭煩情
緒的核心特質是無法將我們的“注意力繫統”掛擋啟動。這造成了無法專注在任
何事上,從而令時間流逝的速度似乎慢得令人痛苦。
解 析:題目中的關鍵詞 Eastwood 在定位句中重現,定位句中的 inability to 和題目中的
cannot 是同義替換,答案就是 focus。
考 點:同義替換。inability to = cannot。
His team suggests that those for whom 25…………………… is an important aim in
life may have problems in coping with boredom,
答案:pleasure
關鍵詞:those for whom、important aim
定位句:根 據 關 鍵 詞 定 位 到 E 段 第 三 行:People who are motivated by pleasure seem to
suffer particularly badly. 那些受追尋快樂所驅動的人們似乎格外深受其苦。
解 析:定位句中的 people who、 motivated by 分別和題目中的 those for whom、important
aim 是同義替換,答案就是 pleasure。
考 點:同義替換。people who=those for whom;important aim=motivated by。
whereas those who have the characteristic of 26……………………can generally cope
with it.
答案:curiosity
關鍵詞:characteristic
定位句:根 據 關 鍵 詞 定 位 到 E 段 第 四 行:Other personality traits, such as curiosity, are
associated with a high boredom threshold. 其他的性格特質,例如好奇,通常構成
了一個很高的厭煩情緒門檻。
解析: 定位句中的 personality traits 和題目中的 characteristic 是同義替換,答案就是
curiosity。
考 點: 同義替換。personality traits=characteristic。