私醫聯招 英文歷屆試題｜第 324 題
107 學年度
The amount of time young children in the UK spend with screens like TVs, computers, smartphones and tablets has been the subject of (24) .
The UK's culture secretary Matt Hancock condemns children's unlimited and unsupervised access to smartphones. He urges teachers to ban them in schools, and calls for parents to set boundaries for their children on the use of them.
However, according to Andy Przybylski, associate professor at the University of Oxford, there is no substantial evidence to (25) the idea that screen time is inherently bad for young children.
- mobility
- denial
- gadget
- debate
提示
『screen time』議題引發正反意見交鋒，應選能表達『爭論』意涵的名詞。
正確答案
正解：D
詳解
A. mobility 意為「移動性」，語意不合。
B. denial 意為「否認」，語意不合。
C. gadget 意為「小裝置」，雖為名詞但與「subject of ___」的抽象議題語境不合。
D. debate 意為「辯論／爭議」，subject of debate 表示成為爭論的議題，正好呼應下文正反意見的描述，為正確答案。
