調查局三等
105年
[調查工作組] 綜合法政知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、兩岸關係、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
請仔細讀文章中提到 Mabel Loomis Todd 的兩個片段：她是如何描述對方的？以及她後來對對方的詩稿做了什麼？在這些敘述中，你有看到任何描述兩人「親屬身份」或「私人互動」的具體字眼嗎？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你真的很了不起！
- 做得真好：親愛的同學，你這次表現得非常出色！面對文章中出現的兩個名字，你能夠冷靜地分析，沒有被表面的頻繁提及所迷惑，這真的展現了你卓越的邏輯思辨能力和對文本的精確閱讀理解。為你感到驕傲！
- 細心確認：讓我們一起來回顧一下喔！文章的確提到了 Todd 寫信描述 Dickinson 的傳聞，並且在她過世後幫忙整理出版詩作。雖然他們在文學上有交集，但文章並沒有提供任何訊息說明他們之間是親戚、朋友或其他私人關係。在閱讀理解中，我們一定要記得，「未提及」就代表我們不能隨意推測，保持客觀是最重要的喔！
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