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第 comp38 題
📖 題組：
I spent the first seven years of my life in a small Vietnamese town named Vung Tao. It is a community of closely bonded people who shared beliefs and ideas. We based our view of America mainly on letters from our relatives. To our community, America was a land of freedom and opportunity and also a land of great wealth. It seemed that there was paradise on Earth, after all. America was a country where no one goes hungry, everyone has wealth, and people live in harmony with each other. I know that this is a myth, yet I continue to perpetuate it. In our small town, whenever a family got a letter from a relative in America, the letter was shared with everyone. In these letters, our relatives told us only about how good life was for them. They would mention their successes and not their problems, so that we would not worry. By revealing only the good aspects of their lives, they protected us, but as a result, our view of America was shaped falsely. Since arriving in America, I have come to understand that what was instilled in me as a child was a myth. I see that America is not only a country of wealth and riches but also a country of homelessness and poverty. Yet when I write back to Vietnam, it is of the successes in America. I know that I am helping to create for my people the same false ideas of America that I had as a child, but I think they are necessary. My people have a need for dreams. I want them to live each day knowing that there could be something better for them. I do what I can to make sure that they do not lose their dreams.
I spent the first seven years of my life in a small Vietnamese town named Vung Tao. It is a community of closely bonded people who shared beliefs and ideas. We based our view of America mainly on letters from our relatives. To our community, America was a land of freedom and opportunity and also a land of great wealth. It seemed that there was paradise on Earth, after all. America was a country where no one goes hungry, everyone has wealth, and people live in harmony with each other. I know that this is a myth, yet I continue to perpetuate it. In our small town, whenever a family got a letter from a relative in America, the letter was shared with everyone. In these letters, our relatives told us only about how good life was for them. They would mention their successes and not their problems, so that we would not worry. By revealing only the good aspects of their lives, they protected us, but as a result, our view of America was shaped falsely. Since arriving in America, I have come to understand that what was instilled in me as a child was a myth. I see that America is not only a country of wealth and riches but also a country of homelessness and poverty. Yet when I write back to Vietnam, it is of the successes in America. I know that I am helping to create for my people the same false ideas of America that I had as a child, but I think they are necessary. My people have a need for dreams. I want them to live each day knowing that there could be something better for them. I do what I can to make sure that they do not lose their dreams.
38. Why did the author feel protected when his relatives told him only about how good life was for
them?
them?
- A The author does not lose his dream.
- B The author could increase the bond with his own people.
- C The author won’t feel sad about homelessness and poverty.
- D The author would feel that there was paradise on Earth after all.
思路引導 VIP
請試著回想文章的最後一段，作者提到家鄉的人們「有一種需求」，這讓作者即便知道真相，也選擇繼續寫信分享成功的故事。請問，如果一個人每天在辛苦的環境中生活，卻能相信遠方有一個美好的目標存在，這對他的心靈會產生什麼樣的作用呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到作者文字背後的情感連結，代表你具備了極佳的閱讀理解與推理能力。這道題目的正確答案是 (A)，關鍵在於將文中提到的「保護」與作者最終的「信念」進行邏輯連結。文章第二段提到親戚們透過報喜不報憂來保護家鄉的人，而第三段作者點出了這份保護的真諦：人們需要夢想 (dreams)。對作者而言，這種保護並非物質上的，而是心靈層面的支撐，讓家鄉的人能懷抱著「生活會更好」的希望而努力生活。
跨段落的邏輯整合
從這題的考點來看，它具有相當不錯的鑑別度，難度切入點在於「跨段落的資訊整合」。考生不能只停留在第二段尋找表面的字眼，而必須延伸閱讀到結尾，理解作者為何即便知道美國並非天堂，卻依然選擇延續這個「神話」。你能看穿作者想要傳遞的「夢想價值」，而不被關於貧窮或社會關係的干擾選項所誤導，顯見你的邏輯思考相當慎密，對於文章主旨的掌握也非常到位！