閱讀測驗是很多考生畏懼的英文題型之一，其實閱讀測驗的解題並不難，因為外國人寫文章都愛用破題法，只要看第一段即可知道文章大概在講什麼內容。例如在此篇文章的第一段中，有提到“trauma” (創傷)、“heal” (治療)，所以文章一定跟“創傷的治療”有關。
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For the last decade, Pennebaker has pioneered research on the |
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role of confession in health. He found that not only talking but also |
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writing about traumas can be healing. “Just putting upsetting |
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experiences into words,” he explains, “has profound psychological |
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and physical benefits for our participants.” |
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Trauma, it seems, is the great leveler. Few of us escape it, even |
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in our first two decades of life. Moreover, the recovery movement of |
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the 1980s and 1990s has taught us that we as a society have kept a |
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smothering blanket of secrecy over our traumas, covering up the truth |
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in order to protect others and protect ourselves from pain. We’re |
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learning that speaking out often ends the cycle of abuse and liberates |
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us from both pain and isolation. Pennebaker’s writing method, while |
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not a public form of confession, is a personal form of |
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acknowledgment, emotional expression, and completion. |
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Pennebaker says that the writing method works because people |
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confide both to others (namely, the psychologists who read the |
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essays) and to themselves. In fact, he believes that confiding one’s |
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deepest thoughts and feelings to one’s self is perhaps the most |
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healing aspect of his technique. |
( ) 1. According to the passage, trauma is “the great leveler,” because _____.
(A) it makes people calm down (B) it is a common experience
(C) it leaves painful memory (D) it can never be predictable
( ) 2. The traditional treatment of traumas is to _____.
(A) provide warm blankets for victims (B) seek help from family and friends
(C) discuss the pain privately (D) avoid talking about it
( ) 3. Pennebaker thinks that the best way for people to heal trauma is to _____.
(A) forgive themselves (B) forget the experience
(C) confess to themselves (D) participate in group discussion
( ) 4. The author writes the passage to _____.
(A) introduce a healing method
(B) tell people how to avoid trauma
(C) acknowledge Pennebaker’s contribution
(D) explain the evolution of recovery movement
英銘老師：閱讀測驗是很多考生畏懼的英文題型之一，其實閱題測驗的的解題並不難，因為外國人寫文章都愛用破題法，只要看第一段即可知道文章大概在講什麼內容。例如在此篇文章的第一段中，有提到“trauma” (創傷)、“heal” (治療)，所以文章一定跟“創傷的治療”有關。
第1題：根據這篇文章，為什麼創傷是偉大的校平器？根據文章的第6行，得知很少有人能逃避它，可見這是一件很平常的事。因此答案是(B)。
補充：
trauma n. 創傷 (always)
Some soldiers will never recover from the trauma of war.
有些士兵永遠無法從戰爭的創傷中復原。
leveler n. 使平等的人(事、物)、校平儀、平等主義者 (sometimes)
As the saying goes, death is the great leveler.
正如俗話所說，死後萬人皆平等。