TOEIC 閱讀 Part 7 — 題目
段落
Reviewer: Alex Chen
Date: October 26, 2023
Product: Sentinel Home Security System v3.0
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
Subject: Performance Dip After Recent Update
I've been a loyal user of the Sentinel system for nearly two years, and usually, it's been quite reliable. However, following the recent firmware update (around October 15th), I've noticed a significant degradation in performance. The motion detectors seem less responsive, and the app frequently loses connection, requiring a manual reconnect each time. This is particularly concerning given the 'building security update' was supposed to enhance stability. Is anyone else experiencing this? I've tried rebooting the system and my router, but the issue persists. Hoping for a swift resolution or a rollback option.
題目
What can be inferred about the reviewer's overall satisfaction with the Sentinel system *before* the recent update?
選項
- A. They were completely dissatisfied.
- B. They found it generally dependable. ✓
- C. They experienced similar issues previously.
- D. They had never used the system before.
正確答案
B. They found it generally dependable.
解析
[KO]
📖 지문/문제 해석 — 리뷰어 Alex Chen은 Sentinel 홈 보안 시스템 v3.0에 대해 별 2개 평점을 주며, 최근 펌웨어 업데이트 이후 성능 저하를 겪고 있다고 보고했습니다. 그는 "거의 2년 동안 Sentinel 시스템의 충실한 사용자였으며, 보통은 꽤 안정적이었습니다."라고 언급했습니다.
📝 정답이유 — 정답은 "They found it generally dependable."입니다. 지문에서 Alex Chen은 "I've been a loyal user of the Sentinel system for nearly two years, and usually, it's been quite reliable."라고 명시하여, 최근 업데이트 이전에는 시스템이 대체로 신뢰할 만했음을 나타냅니다. "Usually"와 "quite reliable"이라는 단어가 그의 이전 만족도를 보여줍니다.
💡 실전팁 — 'inferred' 또는 'implied' 질문 유형에서는 이전 상태나 습관을 나타내는 부사(usually, generally, often)나 현재 상태를 꾸며주는 형용사에 주목하여 과거에 대한 추론을 합니다.
📊 오답분석 — X) They were completely dissatisfied. — "completely dissatisfied"는 "usually, it's been quite reliable"과 상반됩니다. X) They experienced similar issues previously. — 지문은 업데이트 이후에 문제가 발생했다고 명시하며, 이전에는 유사한 문제가 없었습니다. X) They had never used the system before. — "loyal user for nearly two years"라는 언급은 이전에 사용 경험이 있었음을 분명히 합니다.
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[JA]
📖 本文の和訳 — レビュアーのアレックス・チェン氏はSentinelホームセキュリティシステムv3.0に星2つの評価を与え、最近のファームウェアアップデート後にパフォーマンスが低下したと報告しています。彼は「Sentinelシステムを約2年間、忠実なユーザーとして利用してきましたが、通常はかなり信頼性の高いものでした。」と述べています。
📝 정답이유 — 正解は「They found it generally dependable.」です。本文でアレックス・チェン氏は「Sentinelシステムを約2年間、忠実なユーザーとして利用してきましたが、通常はかなり信頼性の高いものでした。」と明記しており、最近のアップデート以前はシステムが概して信頼できたことを示唆しています。「Usually」と「quite reliable」という言葉が、以前の満足度を示しています。
💡 실전팁 — 「inferred」または「implied」と問われる問題では、過去の状態や習慣を示す副詞（usually, generally, often）や、現在の状態を修飾する形容詞に注目し、過去に関する推論を行います。
📊 오답분석 — X) They were completely dissatisfied. — 「completely dissatisfied」は「usually, it's been quite reliable」と矛盾します。 X) They experienced similar issues previously. — 本文はアップデート後に問題が発生したと明記しており、以前は同様の問題はありませんでした。 X) They had never used the system before. — 「loyal user for nearly two years」という記述は、以前に使用経験があったことを明確に示しています。
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[TH]
📖 การแปลบทอ่าน — ผู้รีวิว Alex Chen ให้คะแนนระบบรักษาความปลอดภัยภายในบ้าน Sentinel v3.0 อยู่ที่ 2 ดาว โดยรายงานว่าประสิทธิภาพลดลงหลังจากการอัปเดตเฟิร์มแวร์ล่าสุด เขาเขียนว่า "ฉันเป็นผู้ใช้ที่ภักดีของระบบ Sentinel มาเกือบสองปีแล้ว และปกติแล้วมันค่อนข้างเชื่อถือได้"
📝 การวิเคราะห์คำตอบ — คำตอบที่ถูกต้องคือ "They found it generally dependable." คำว่า "usually" และ "quite reliable" ในประโยค "I've been a loyal user of the Sentinel system for nearly two years, and usually, it's been quite reliable." แสดงให้เห็นว่าก่อนการอัปเดตล่าสุด ผู้รีวิวพบว่าระบบโดยทั่วไปมีความน่าเชื่อถือ
💡 เคล็ดลับสำหรับวันสอบ — สำหรับคำถามประเภท "inferred" หรือ "implied" ให้มองหาคำวิเศษณ์ที่บ่งบอกถึงสถานะหรือนิสัยในอดีต (เช่น usually, generally, often, always) หรือคำคุณศัพท์ที่อธิบายสภาพปัจจุบัน เพื่อใช้ในการอนุมานเกี่ยวกับอดีต
📊 การวิเคราะห์ตัวเลือกที่ผิด — X) They were completely dissatisfied. — คำว่า "completely dissatisfied" ขัดแย้งกับ "usually, it's been quite reliable" X) They experienced similar issues previously. — ข้อความระบุว่าปัญหาเกิดขึ้นหลังจากการอัปเดต ไม่ใช่ก่อนหน้านี้ X) They had never used the system before. — การกล่าวว่า "loyal user for nearly two years" บ่งชี้ชัดเจนว่าเคยใช้ระบบมาก่อน
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[VI]
📖 Dịch đoạn văn — Người đánh giá Alex Chen đã đánh giá Hệ thống An ninh Gia đình Sentinel v3.0 là 2 sao, báo cáo rằng hiệu suất đã giảm sút sau bản cập nhật firmware gần đây. Anh ấy viết: "Tôi đã là người dùng trung thành của hệ thống Sentinel gần hai năm nay, và thông thường, nó khá đáng tin cậy."
📝 Phân tích lý do chọn đáp án — Đáp án đúng là "They found it generally dependable." Cụm từ "usually" và "quite reliable" trong câu "I've been a loyal user of the Sentinel system for nearly two years, and usually, it's been quite reliable." cho thấy rằng trước bản cập nhật gần đây, người đánh giá thấy hệ thống nhìn chung đáng tin cậy.
💡 Mẹo làm bài thi — Đối với các câu hỏi loại "inferred" hoặc "implied", hãy chú ý đến các trạng từ chỉ trạng thái hoặc thói quen trong quá khứ (ví dụ: usually, generally, often, always) hoặc các tính từ mô tả tình trạng hiện tại để suy luận về quá khứ.
📊 Phân tích lựa chọn sai — X) They were completely dissatisfied. — Cụm từ "completely dissatisfied" trái ngược với "usually, it's been quite reliable." X) They experienced similar issues previously. — Đoạn văn nêu rõ vấn đề xảy ra sau bản cập nhật, không phải trước đó. X) They had never used the system before. — Việc đề cập đến "loyal user for nearly two years" cho thấy rõ ràng rằng họ đã từng sử dụng hệ thống trước đây.
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[ID]
📖 Terjemahan Teks — Peninjau Alex Chen memberikan peringkat bintang 2 untuk Sistem Keamanan Rumah Sentinel v3.0, melaporkan penurunan kinerja setelah pembaruan firmware terbaru. Dia menulis, "Saya telah menjadi pengguna setia sistem Sentinel selama hampir dua tahun, dan biasanya, sistem ini cukup andal."
📝 Alasan Memilih Jawaban — Jawaban yang benar adalah "They found it generally dependable." Kata "usually" dan "quite reliable" dalam kalimat "I've been a loyal user of the Sentinel system for nearly two years, and usually, it's been quite reliable." menunjukkan bahwa sebelum pembaruan terbaru, peninjau menganggap sistem tersebut secara umum dapat diandalkan.
💡 Tips Saat Ujian — Untuk jenis pertanyaan "inferred" atau "implied", perhatikan kata keterangan yang menunjukkan keadaan atau kebiasaan masa lalu (misalnya, usually, generally, often, always) atau kata sifat yang mendeskripsikan kondisi saat ini untuk menarik kesimpulan tentang masa lalu.
📊 Analisis Pilihan Salah — X) They were completely dissatisfied. — Ungkapan "completely dissatisfied" bertentangan dengan "usually, it's been quite reliable." X) They experienced similar issues previously. — Teks menyatakan masalah terjadi setelah pembaruan, bukan sebelumnya. X) They had never used the system before. — Penyebutan "loyal user for nearly two years" dengan jelas menunjukkan bahwa mereka pernah menggunakan sistem tersebut sebelumnya.
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[MS]
📖 Terjemahan Petikan — Pengulas Alex Chen memberikan penilaian 2 bintang untuk Sistem Keselamatan Rumah Sentinel v3.0, melaporkan penurunan prestasi selepas kemas kini perisian tegar terbaharu. Dia menulis: "Saya telah menjadi pengguna setia sistem Sentinel selama hampir dua tahun, dan biasanya, ia agak boleh dipercayai."
📝 Sebab Jawapan Ini — Jawapan yang betul ialah "They found it generally dependable." Frasa "usually" dan "quite reliable" dalam ayat "I've been a loyal user of the Sentinel system for nearly two years, and usually, it's been quite reliable." menunjukkan bahawa sebelum kemas kini terbaharu, pengulas mendapati sistem itu secara amnya boleh dipercayai.
💡 Petua Hari Peperiksaan — Untuk jenis soalan 'inferred' atau 'implied', perhatikan kata keterangan yang menunjukkan keadaan atau tabiat masa lalu (cth: usually, generally, often, always) atau kata sifat yang menghuraikan keadaan semasa untuk membuat kesimpulan tentang masa lalu.
📊 Analisis Pilihan Salah — X) They were completely dissatisfied. — Ungkapan "completely dissatisfied" bertentangan dengan "usually, it's been quite reliable." X) They experienced similar issues previously. — Petikan menyatakan isu berlaku selepas kemas kini, bukan sebelum itu. X) They had never used the system before. — Penyebutan "loyal user for nearly two years" dengan jelas menunjukkan bahawa mereka pernah menggunakan sistem itu sebelum ini.
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[PT-BR]
📖 Tradução da Passagem — O revisor Alex Chen deu uma classificação de 2 estrelas para o Sistema de Segurança Residencial Sentinel v3.0, relatando uma queda de desempenho após a atualização de firmware mais recente. Ele escreveu: "Eu sou um usuário fiel do sistema Sentinel há quase dois anos e, geralmente, ele tem sido bastante confiável."
📝 Razão Desta Resposta — A resposta correta é "They found it generally dependable." As palavras "usually" e "quite reliable" na frase "I've been a loyal user of the Sentinel system for nearly two years, and usually, it's been quite reliable." indicam que, antes da atualização recente, o revisor achava o sistema geralmente confiável.
💡 Dica para o Dia da Prova — Para perguntas do tipo 'inferred' ou 'implied', preste atenção a advérbios que indicam estados ou hábitos passados (ex: usually, generally, often, always) ou a adjetivos que descrevem a condição atual para fazer inferências sobre o passado.
📊 Análise das Opções Erradas — X) They were completely dissatisfied. — A frase "completely dissatisfied" contradiz "usually, it's been quite reliable." X) They experienced similar issues previously. — A passagem afirma que os problemas ocorreram após a atualização, não antes disso. X) They had never used the system before. — A menção a ser "loyal user for nearly two years" indica claramente que eles já usaram o sistema antes.
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[MY]
📖 အပိုဒ်ဘာသာပြန် — ပြန်လည်သုံးသပ်သူ Alex Chen သည် Sentinel အိမ်တွင်းလုံခြုံရေးစနစ် v3.0 ကို ကြယ် 2 ပွင့် အဆင့်သတ်မှတ်ခဲ့ပြီး မကြာသေးမီက firmware ကို အပ်ဒိတ်လုပ်ပြီးနောက် စွမ်းဆောင်ရည် ကျဆင်းကြောင်း အစီရင်ခံခဲ့သည်။ သူက "ကျွန်တော် Sentinel စနစ်ရဲ့ သစ္စာရှိတဲ့ အသုံးပြုသူတစ်ယောက်အနေနဲ့နီးပါး နှစ်နှစ်လောက်ရှိပါပြီ၊ ပုံမှန်အားဖြင့်တော့ တော်တော်လေးကို ယုံကြည်စိတ်ချရပါတယ်" ဟုရေးသားခဲ့သည်။
📝 အဖြေ ဤအကြောင်း — မှန်ကန်သောအဖြေမှာ "They found it generally dependable." ဖြစ်သည်။ "I've been a loyal user of the Sentinel system for nearly two years, and usually, it's been quite reliable." ဟူသော စာကြောင်းရှိ "usually" နှင့် "quite reliable" ဟူသော စကားလုံးများသည် မကြာသေးမီက အပ်ဒိတ်မလုပ်မီတွင် ပြန်လည်သုံးသပ်သူသည် စနစ်ကို ယေဘုယျအားဖြင့် ယုံကြည်စိတ်ချရသည်ဟု ယူဆကြောင်း ဖော်ပြသည်။
💡 စာမေးပွဲနေ့ အကြံပြုချက် — 'inferred' သို့မဟုတ် 'implied' ကဲ့သို့သော မေးခွန်းအမျိုးအစားများအတွက်၊ အတိတ်က အခြေအနေများ သို့မဟုတ် အလေ့အကျင့်များကို ဖော်ပြသည့် ကြိယာဝိသေသနများ (ဥပမာ- usually, generally, often, always) သို့မဟုတ် လက်ရှိအခြေအနေကို ဖော်ပြသည့် နာမဝိသေသနများကို အတိတ်နှင့်ပတ်သက်သော အကြံပြုချက်များအတွက် ဂရုပြုပါ။
📊 မှားယွင်းသောအဖြေများ ခွဲခြမ်းစိတ်ဖြာ — X) They were completely dissatisfied. — "completely dissatisfied" သည် "usually, it's been quite reliable." နှင့် ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက်ဖြစ်သည်။ X) They experienced similar issues previously. — အပိုဒ်တွင် ပြဿနာများသည် မကြာသေးမီက အပ်ဒိတ်ပြီးနောက် ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့ကြောင်း၊ မတိုင်မီက မဟုတ်ကြောင်း ဖော်ပြထားသည်။ X) They had never used the system before. — "loyal user for nearly two years" ဟူသော ဖော်ပြချက်သည် ၎င်းတို့သည် ယခင်က စနစ်ကို အသုံးပြုခဲ့ဖူးကြောင်းကို ရှင်းလင်းစွာ ဖော်ပြသည်။
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[ZH-TW]
📖 文章翻譯 — 評論者：Alex Chen 日期：2023年10月26日 產品：Sentinel 家居安全系統 v3.0 評分：★★☆☆☆ 主旨：近期更新後效能下降 我是 Sentinel 系統的忠實用戶，近兩年來，它通常都相當可靠。然而，在最近一次韌體更新（約10月15日）之後，我注意到效能顯著下降。動態偵測器的反應似乎變慢，而且應用程式經常失去連線，每次都需要手動重新連接。這點尤其令人擔憂，因為「建築安全更新」本應是為了增強穩定性…
📝 答案解析 — 正確答案是「他們發現它總體上是可靠的」。評論開頭提到「我是 Sentinel 系統的忠實用戶，近兩年來，它通常都相當可靠。」這直接表明了他在這次更新之前對系統的整體滿意度。其後的「然而」一詞標示出對比，說明了更新後的負面影響，但並未否定過去的肯定評價。
💡 應試技巧 — 尋找表示「過去正面評價」但被「然而」或類似轉折詞引入「現狀負面評價」的句子。許多關於產品或服務評論的題目會透過這種結構來測試讀者對時間點判斷的理解。
📊 錯誤選項分析 — X) 他們完全不滿意 — 評論明確提到「通常都相當可靠」，否定了完全不滿意的說法。 X) 他們先前也經歷過類似問題 — 評論中沒有提到過去有過任何問題，只描述了更新後的效能下降。 X) 他們以前從未使用過該系統 — 評論者清楚表明自己已是「近兩年的用戶」。
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[EN]
📖 Passage Translation — Reviewer Alex Chen gave a 2-star rating for the Sentinel Home Security System v3.0, reporting a performance dip after the recent firmware update. He wrote: "I've been a loyal user of the Sentinel system for nearly two years, and usually, it's been quite reliable."
📝 Why This Answer — The correct answer is "They found it generally dependable." The words "usually" and "quite reliable" in the sentence "I've been a loyal user of the Sentinel system for nearly two years, and usually, it's been quite reliable." indicate that before the recent update, the reviewer found the system generally dependable.
💡 Test-day Tip — For 'inferred' or 'implied' question types, look for adverbs indicating past states or habits (e.g., usually, generally, often, always) or adjectives describing the current condition to make inferences about the past.
📊 Wrong-Option Analysis — X) They were completely dissatisfied. — The phrase "completely dissatisfied" contradicts "usually, it's been quite reliable." X) They experienced similar issues previously. — The passage states the issues occurred *after* the update, not prior to it. X) They had never used the system before. — The mention of being a "loyal user for nearly two years" clearly indicates prior usage.