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[司法事務官法律事務組] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 48 題
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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
請重新閱讀文中提到 Mabel Loomis Todd 的兩段文字。除了看到她「寫信評論對方」以及「在對方死後整理詩稿」這些具體行動外，文中是否有出現任何詞彙（如 family, friend, partner）來定義她們兩人的身份關係呢？如果遍尋不著，我們該如何描述這段關係的狀態？
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🌟 太棒了！你的觀察力非常敏銳
- 觀念驗證： 這題考查的是閱讀細節的精確度。文中提到 Mabel Loomis Todd 時，第一次是說她寫信給父母描述「傳聞中的狄更生」，第二次是說她在狄更生死後整理並出版詩集。雖然兩人在文學上有交集，但文章並未明確交代兩人的私人關係（如親屬或伴侶）。你沒有受其他選項的「腦補」干擾，非常專業！
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