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五、篇章結構：請依文意選出一個最適合的答案，每題 1 分，共 5 分。Today, the ecumene—the area of the earth inhabited by or traversed by human beings, however tenuous their presencemight be—embraces the entire planet. The ecumene encompasses a variety of environments and terrains; some regions arepreferential to others, as shown by either a density of population or a void. Only recently have we become aware of two verysignificant facts.51 Human inhabitants modify the ecological balances, and this modification can be so great as to make placesunlivable. The second important fact is that this ecumene only has the meaning we give to it, by our own intellectualconstructions and technology. The earth exists independently of us and can continue without us, but our existence depends onfinding or creating spaces that are hospitable to human habitation.Today the equilibriums of our planet are at stake. A consciousness of this threat has only recently come to the fore, anawareness that can take the form of nostalgia for the past, now perceived as desirable because the future is in jeopardy.52 As deep and legitimate as this feeling is, we should not forget that people always transformed nature into culturallandscapes.At the dawn of the twenty-first century, human presence on this earth is concerned simultaneously with the cosmic and theinfinitesimal. 53 Modern technology has created minute probes fitted with automatic transmitters that exploremicroscopic areas and, at the other end of the spectrum, engines that leave the earth’s gravitational field and enter outer-space.However, this scientific advance is tied to growing inequalities: the richest countries, which have the most advancedtechnology, reap the greatest benefits. Means of production and mass consumption have multiplied along with a growingsophistication in the ability to satisfy the ever-new needs of a carefree and increasingly comfortable society, while the wideningnetwork of the media has spread models of wealth across the globe. 54 What would be the consequences for theenvironment, the world we inhabit, if the hundred poorest countries of the planet were to attain the same standard of living asthe ten richest?For the moment, only a small segment of society has arrived, undoubtedly with difficulty, at the conclusion that beliefsshould remain private and, consequently, that the management of societies as well as the environment should come under thecontrol of the public sphere. Of course, individual and collective beliefs and general symbolic systems still play an importantpart in this management. 55 The whole of the earth is progressively becoming the zone of reference for individual indiverse societies. 

(A) Urban dwellers, as it turns out, abhor but settle for the fact of being the sole agent of exploitation of hospitable terrain. 
(B) New rights need to be recognized that will apply not only to one social group inhabiting one domain but to the entire humanpopulation throughout the world. 
(C) First, the ecumene was ecologically created, independent of humanity. 
(D) Yet the full weight of demographic growth falls most heavily on the most destitute. 
(E) The ecumene, for starters, has been in existence prior to human inhabitation and kept expanding to other galaxies. (AB) Understanding the determinants of resource inequality has become a mega challenge for many economic models that alsoserve as predictors of future ecological and economic scenario. (AC) The residents of cities, which house a growing part of humanity, feel that an environment that had been mainly vegetableis now being mineralized. (AD) The world of the infinitely small is increasingly open to our manipulation, while the whole earth has recently become fairgame for use on a massive scale by the human species.------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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答案：C
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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