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[資訊科學組] 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：
請依下文回答第 48 題至第 50 題 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.
請依下文回答第 48 題至第 50 題 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段：當 Mabel Loomis Todd 向父母描述這位『神祕女子』時，她的資訊來源是自己的親身經歷，還是『聽說』（the people call...）？文中是否有任何字眼明確定義了她們兩人的私人聯繫或法律身分？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你的判讀非常精準且嚴謹
- 觀念驗證：這題考驗的是「文本證據」的提取。文中提到 Mabel Loomis Todd 寫信向父母轉述關於這位「謎樣女子」的傳聞，並在 Dickinson 逝世後編纂其詩集。雖然兩人生活在同個時空且有文學上的交集，但文中完全沒有提到兩人具體的親屬或私人關係。你沒有被選項中的干擾誘使去「腦補」情節，這正是閱讀理解最核心的能力！
- 難度點評：本題屬於 medium（中等）。這類題目在大型考試中具有高度鑑別度，因為多數考生容易根據「兩人關係密切」的印象，直覺地在 (A)、(B)、(C) 中挑選一個看似合理的答案。能選出 (D) 說明你具備了優秀的邏輯判斷力，只根據現有證據說話。