Nature provides other forms of protection 36 environmental dangers.
答案:(C) against
【句型】protection against 字詞搭配「針對……的保護/防禦」;about/above/around 都不是 protection 常見的搭配介系詞。
本題大考中心未公布逐題答對率,以下不談數據,只談觀念。
四個選項都是 a 開頭的介系詞,長得像、中文也都能翻成「關於、在……上」,而 protection 的中文「保護」在中文裡後面不必接介系詞,中文完全幫不上忙。這一型只能靠有沒有把名詞與介系詞當一組記起來。
四個選項都是介系詞,可見這一格考的是 protection 跟哪一個搭配。先看整句:Nature provides other forms of protection ___ environmental dangers.(大自然還提供其他形式的保護,……環境中的危險。)保護是為了抵禦危險,而「針對某個威脅的防護」用的是 against:protection against(防範……的保護)。同一組的動詞說法是 protect somebody against/from something(保護某人免於某事),兩個一起記就不會忘。against 的核心語感是「對著、抵著」——不論是 fight against(對抗)、lean against(靠著)還是本題的 protection against,都有一個「面對面頂住」的意味。
about(關於):帶出談論的主題,protection about 不是通行的說法。above(在……上方)、around(在……周圍):兩個都是講位置,與「防範危險」無關。
protection against(防範……的保護)、protect sb from/against sth(保護某人免於……)、fight against(對抗)、environmental dangers(環境中的危險)、a means of protection(保護的手段)、shelter from(躲避)。
All forms of life have an instinctive urge to survive. Nature provides 31 with the means of survival. We have learned much about survival from 32 forms of animal life.
Lizards, 33 can change the color of their skin and 34 the trees and leaves around them. 35 , they cannot be detected by other animals that threaten them. Nature provides other forms of protection 36 environmental dangers.
Human beings, too, 37 special devices to protect 38 . Their skin is very 39 to temperature changes. 40 warm weather, sweating helps humans regulate their body temperature.