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四、閱讀測驗題(30%)  56-60 題為題組    Blinded by an illness, for twenty-six years Joyce Urch of Coventry, England, had been resigned toa life of blackness. One day, she was rushed to the hospital with chest pains. She had suffered aheart attack and kidney failure. Then, when Urch woke up after a lifesaving operation, she could seeagain!    Her daughter Carol O’Beirne called the rest of the family, including Eric Urch, Joyce’s husbandof nearly fifty years. He looked a little different from what Joyce remembered. “I thought to myself,he was so lovely at one time,” Joyce Urch said. “Now he’s getting old and gray.” She soon learnedthat a lot of things had changed.   In 1979, when she went blind, there were no escalators in Coventry. On her first visit to a mall,she was amazed by these “moving stairs” and also by the stores where husband had been buying herclothes all these years. Her other surprises included traffic lights, new road signs, and new cars.     No one really knows why Joyce Urch can see again. “It’s obviously unexpected,” said MartinBeen, Joyce Urch’s doctor. “It’s a fantastic side effect of what happened—a rather dramatic way forit to happen but it’s wonderful. I wish I knew why.”     Deepinder Dhaliwal, director of the Laser/Vision Center at University of Pittsburgh MedicalCenter, who had not treated Urch, offered the theories below as to why she can see again.     “The most common form of reversible blindness is cataracts, a clouding of the lenses,” Dhaliwalsaid. “You can remove cataracts with injury to the head,” she added. “She must have hadcataracts. When they were saving her, they may have shaken her or bumped her in such a way as toremove those cataracts.”     Dhaliwal’s other theory was that Urch was suffering from functional blindness. That issomething going on in the brain—as opposed to the eyes—blocks the person from seeing. “Perhaps,those blockages were then removed and she could see again,” Dhaliwal said.     Dhaliwal said she had never seen a case of blindness reversed without medical operation, but hadread about such cases. Urch’s case, however, differed from those in its length of time. “Thetimetable for that visual recovery is days or weeks, and not nearly three decades,” Dhaliwal said.
56. The title that would best explain the main idea of this story is ______.
(A) The Blind Can See
(B) The Blind Lead the Blind
(C) The Seeing See Little
(D) Seeing IsBelieving

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

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