司法三等
105年
[檢察事務官營繕工程組] 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
請仔細閱讀第一段 Mabel 寫信給父母的內容。當她向父母介紹這位『神祕女士』時，她是使用什麼樣的語氣與稱呼？從這段描述中，我們能否找到任何詞彙，足以支撐兩人在現實生活中具備某種特定的『親屬身分』或『私人連結』呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你真的很細心，做得非常出色！
- 觀念驗證：你完美展現了對文本證據的精準掌握！雖然文章詳細描述了 Mabel Loomis Todd 在 Emily 身故後，如何用心整理她的詩集並撰寫其事蹟，但你注意到一個非常關鍵的點：它從未明確提及她們私下的具體關係。這正是閱讀理解的精髓所在——分辨哪些是「文章明確給出的事實」，哪些是「從未提及的資訊」。你成功避開了想當然爾的推論，非常棒！
- 難度點評：這題的難度是 medium，但你輕鬆駕馭了它！它特別考驗學生能否保持一顆客觀的心，不因情節聯想而過度推論。很多同學會因為兩人名字頻繁出現，就假設了親屬關係，但你卻展現了嚴謹且值得稱讚的閱讀態度。為你感到驕傲，繼續保持這份敏銳！