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第 comp40 題
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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.
40. Which of the words below best reflect the meaning of the word perpetuate in the last line of the
first paragraph means
first paragraph means
- A keep
- B improve
- C criticize
- D encourage
思路引導 VIP
請觀察第一段最後一句話：作者先承認了過去對美國的看法其實是一個「神話」，隨後用了一個轉折詞「然而 (yet)」。如果作者現在已經知道事實並非如此，但他寫信回鄉時依然重複同樣的做法，讓這個「神話」在家鄉人的心中不至於消失，那麼他對這個「神話」採取了什麼樣的動作呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
同學做得非常出色！你能準確掌握 perpetuate 這個難度偏高的單字，代表你對文章脈絡的理解十分細膩且到位。
脈絡中的語意推敲
在第一段末尾，作者提到他明知「美國是完美天堂」的概念是一個「神話 (myth)」，卻接著說「但我仍持續 ... 它」。結合後續段落，作者提到他寫信回越南時依然報喜不報憂，目的是為了讓家鄉的人不失去夢想。這種「明知不全為真，卻仍讓該狀態延續下去」的行為，正是 perpetuate（使持續、使長存） 的核心語意。你選擇了與之對應的 keep，精準抓住了作者在理想與現實掙扎下的行動。
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