The purpose of the rally was to ask fans to respect the copyright and to stop buying 26 CDs.
答案:(D) pirated
過去分詞 pirated 作形容詞修飾 CDs,表示「被盜版的 CD」(被動關係——CD 是被盜版製作出來的)。pirating(現在分詞,主動語意不合,CD 不會主動盜版)、pirate/piracy 是名詞或動詞原形,不能直接修飾名詞。
四個選項是同一個字根的四種形態,形態排在一起就知道考的是形態,但 pirating 與 pirated 一時分不出來。答對率四成七。
空格後面是名詞 CDs,空格要填的是修飾 CDs 的字。分詞當形容詞用時,主動或被動看的是名詞與那個動作的關係:CD 是被人盜版製作出來的,不會自己去盜版別人,所以用過去分詞,pirated CDs(盜版的 CD)。國中學過的 a broken window(破掉的窗戶,被打破)對 a barking dog(在叫的狗,自己在叫),判準完全一樣。
pirating:現在分詞表主動,pirating CDs 會讀成「正在盜版 CD 的」,方向不對。pirate:動詞原形或名詞「海盜」,原形動詞不能直接掛在名詞前面當修飾語。piracy:抽象名詞「盜版行為」。兩個名詞並排時,前面那個要能說明後面那個屬於哪一類,piracy CDs 說不通;同一篇第 27 題的 fight piracy 才是這個字該出現的位置。
pirated CDs(盜版光碟)、stop V-ing(停止做……)、respect the copyright(尊重著作權)、intellectual property right(智慧財產權)、think otherwise(有不同的看法)、attend a demonstration(參加示威活動)。
Many entertainment celebrities, on April 5, 2002, attended an anti-piracy demonstration in Taipei. The purpose of the rally was to ask fans to respect the copyright and to stop buying 26 CDs. Although the intellectual property right is to be protected by law, the fans may think otherwise.
Obviously, it is the recording industry that wants to 27 piracy. Celebrities in the rally probably have no idea about how much a CD of their music albums costs. After signing million-dollar contracts with recording companies, singers devote most of their time 28 their music perfect while companies are busy commercializing their products.
It is the fans that support the kingdoms of the recording companies; 29, the industry never gives its feedback to the fans—by lowering the prices of CDs. It is an easy arithmetic 30. When one can buy a CD of pop music for NT$50 anywhere on the streets, why does he or she want to spend NT$300 or more for the same one?