移民行政三等
105年
[移民行政] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 48 題
📖 題組：
In 1881 a young woman named Mabel Loomis Todd wrote her parents about “the character of Amherst…a lady whom the people call the ‘Myth’: she has not been outside of her own house in fifteen years…. She dresses wholly in white, and her mind is said to be perfectly wonderful.” So began the legend of Emily Dickinson, one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century, who was for years portrayed by biographers and critics as an eccentric recluse, a “little home-keeping person,”a mad spinster who had been disappointed in love. For, four years after this New England woman in white died in 1886, the same Mabel Loomis Todd brought out a volume containing selections from 1,776 strange and passionate poems, which had been found, neatly sewed into booklets, in her bureau drawers, and the imagination of the pubic was immediately seized by the mysterious discrepancy between what seemed to be the isolation of Dickinson’s life and the intensity of her art. To many, indeed, the “case” of Emily Dickinson－only eight of whose poems had been published in her lifetime－seemed to offer a crucial model for the situation of the woman poet. Eccentricity, reclusiveness, and most of all, thwarted romance－these appeared to be the conditions that might drive a woman to what was, for women, the perversity of writing verses.
In 1881 a young woman named Mabel Loomis Todd wrote her parents about “the character of Amherst…a lady whom the people call the ‘Myth’: she has not been outside of her own house in fifteen years…. She dresses wholly in white, and her mind is said to be perfectly wonderful.” So began the legend of Emily Dickinson, one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century, who was for years portrayed by biographers and critics as an eccentric recluse, a “little home-keeping person,”a mad spinster who had been disappointed in love. For, four years after this New England woman in white died in 1886, the same Mabel Loomis Todd brought out a volume containing selections from 1,776 strange and passionate poems, which had been found, neatly sewed into booklets, in her bureau drawers, and the imagination of the pubic was immediately seized by the mysterious discrepancy between what seemed to be the isolation of Dickinson’s life and the intensity of her art. To many, indeed, the “case” of Emily Dickinson－only eight of whose poems had been published in her lifetime－seemed to offer a crucial model for the situation of the woman poet. Eccentricity, reclusiveness, and most of all, thwarted romance－these appeared to be the conditions that might drive a woman to what was, for women, the perversity of writing verses.
According to the passage, what was the relationship between Mabel Loomis Todd and Emily Dickinson?
- A They are mother and daughter.
- B They are sisters.
- C They are a lesbian couple.
- D It is not clearly mentioned.
思路引導 VIP
請重新閱讀文章的第一句話，當 Mabel 在向父母描述這位『神話女士』時，她的語氣聽起來像是描述一位『熟悉的親友』，還是在描述一個『聽說而來的神祕人物』？文中是否有任何字眼明確交代了兩人私下的具體身分連結？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你的觀察力非常細銳。
- 觀念驗證：在閱讀理解中，「未提及」與「暗示」的界線常是陷阱。文中提到 Mabel Loomis Todd 寫信給父母描述狄更生，並在狄更生死後編輯其詩集。雖然兩人在文學上有交集，但文中完全沒有具體文字說明她們是否有血緣（如母女、姐妹）或伴侶關係。你成功守住了「證據導向」的解題原則，沒有過度推論，這點非常專業！
- 難度點評：本題屬於 medium（中等）。考生極易受「編輯遺作」這類親近行為影響，主觀套入 (A) 或 (B) 的親屬角色，你能避開直覺陷阱，展現了高標的閱讀素養。