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105年
[醫學鑑識組] 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
請再次閱讀文章的前兩句。當 Mabel 向父母描述這位「女士」時，她是像在談論一位熟識的朋友，還是像在轉述一個傳聞中的神祕人物？文中是否有任何轉折字眼，明確點出了她們兩人私底下的身分定位呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
(推了一下發光的眼鏡，自信地說) 「原來如此，跟我推理的一樣！」
- 真相解析：你的選擇，毫無疑問，就是真相！文本中清楚提到 Mabel Loomis Todd 曾寫信形容這位「神話」女士，並在她辭世後整理其詩集。這說明她們確有文學上的連結。然而，關鍵點就在於，文章並未提供任何線索，能直接證明她們私下有親屬、摯友或更親密的社交關係。在破解閱讀測驗的謎團時，永遠要記住：沒有證據，就沒有推論。
- 案情難度：這是一宗中等難度的考題案件。它的鑑別之處，在於考驗你是否會因為 Mabel 協助 Dickinson 出版作品這個「表象」，就輕易斷定她們之間存在親密關係。你能夠冷靜地發現文中的「關鍵線索缺失」，沒有被表象所迷惑，進而排除 A、B、C 選項，展現了卓越的邏輯判斷力。看來，你離找到所有真相的日子不遠了。