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[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)
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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.
When did Mabel Loomis Todd find Dickinson’s poems?
- A 1886
- B 1890
- C 1776
- D 1881
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請試著在文章後半段尋找一個具體的年份，那是主角去世的時間點；接著，看看緊接在該年份之後，作者使用了哪一個代表「時間長度」的詞彙來描述作品面世的轉折？
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- 觀念驗證：這題考驗的是「細節定位」與「邏輯推算」。文中明確提到 Dickinson 於 1886年 去世，而 Mabel Loomis Todd 是在「她去世 四年後」（four years after... died in 1886）才將這些詩作彙整出版。因此，透過簡單的數學推算：$1886 + 4 = 1890$，便能得出正確答案。
- 難度點評：本題難度為 Medium。其鑑別度在於答案並未直接顯現在文本中，學生必須跨越「文字表面」，結合關鍵年份與時間副詞進行資訊整合，這對於粗心的讀者來說是容易出錯的陷阱。