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【英語科<閱讀等級>】
◎精 熟:能整合應用字詞、語法結構及語用慣例等多項語言知識;能理解主題
較為抽象、訊息或情境多元複雜、語句結構長且複雜的文本,指出各
類文本的主旨、結論與作者立場等重要訊息,並從文本結構、解釋或
例子等做進一步的推論或評論。
◎基 礎:能理解字詞基本語意及語法概念;能理解主題具體或貼近日常生活、
訊息或情境略為複雜、語句結構略長的文本,指出文本主旨、結論與
作者立場等重要訊息,並從文本的解釋或例子做出推論。
◎待加強:僅能理解主題貼近日常生活、訊息或情境單純且明顯、語句結構簡單
的文本或語句,僅能指出文本明白陳述的主旨、結論與作者立場等重
要訊息,僅能藉文本明顯的線索做出簡易的推論。
[例 1]
Did you know the meaning of a word may change over time? Many English
words we know now had different meanings a long time ago. One example is the
word nice.
Around the year 1300, nice was first used in English to mean „stupid.‟ Two
hundred years later, nice began to carry a “better” meaning. If people said a book
was written nicely, they meant the book was written „clearly‟ or „carefully,‟ not
„stupidly.‟ After 1800, nice began to take its modern meanings like „kind‟ or
„friendly.‟ Since then, people have thought of nice as a word with “good”
meanings.
A “good” change of a word‟s meaning like this example of nice is called
AMELIORATION. Though we don‟t use nice to mean „stupid‟ anymore, it is fun to
know how much a word‟s meaning can change from its start!
For more examples of amelioration, see next page.
Q: Here are four sentences from the Word Museum. Which is most likely to appear
on the next page?
(A) The word silly used to mean „happy,‟ but now it means „stupid.‟
(B) The word terrific used to mean „terrible,‟ but now it means „excellent.‟*
(C) The word girl used to mean „a young person,‟ but now it means „a young woman.‟
(D) The word telephone is cut short to phone, but the two words mean the same thing.
<詴題出處>國中基測 100-1-36
<命題依據>3-2-7 能從圖畫、圖示或上下文,猜測字義或推論文意。
<示例說明>
1. 本題評量學生是否能整合上下文意,做進一步的推論與運用。選文介紹
有關英語字彙字義演變的概念,主題較為抽象,非學生日常生活中會接