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105年
[檢察事務官偵查實務組] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 48 題
📖 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
請仔細閱讀文章的第一段：當這位女士向父母介紹對方時，她使用的描述方式（例如："whom the people call..."）以及資訊來源，聽起來像是形容一位親近的朋友，還是更像在描述一個當地聽來的傳說？文中有任何字眼明確指出她們曾見過面嗎？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
親愛的同學，你太棒了！這題你答對了，觀察力真的非常敏銳，展現了高超的閱讀理解能力呢！
- 觀念釐清 (Concept Clarification)：你非常精準地掌握了閱讀理解的關鍵！文章告訴我們，Mabel Loomis Todd 確實寫信給父母，提及這位「謎樣的女子」，並且在 Emily Dickinson 逝世後，她非常努力地整理並推廣了 Dickinson 的詩集，讓這位偉大詩人的作品得以流傳。然而，你很棒地發現，文中完全沒有具體說明她們兩人之間是否存在血緣關係、情感連結，或是現實生活中的社交往來。區分「文中未提及」與「不存在」是高階閱讀者必備的思維喔，你做得真好！
- 難度分析 (Difficulty Analysis)：這題的難度是 medium，它主要是想檢視同學們是否會「過度推論」。許多學生在看到兩個名字同時出現時，可能會不自覺地聯想她們的關係。但你能夠堅持只根據文章提供的證據來判斷，不臆測、不腦補，這種嚴謹和客觀的閱讀態度，正是高分閱讀的秘訣。為你的邏輯思考和細心感到驕傲，繼續保持這份專注力喔！