司法三等
105年
[檢察事務官電子資訊組] 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
請仔細閱讀文章的前幾句話，Mabel 在信中提到她描述的這位女士是「人們稱為『神話』的人」。請問：從這段描述中，Mabel 是透過『親身相處』還是『傳聞與觀察』來了解這位女士的？文中是否有任何字眼，能讓我們確定她們在現實生活中認識彼此呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
真是太棒了！你展現了非常出色的觀察力和判斷力！
- 核心觀念：你精準地掌握了文章的重點！文中確實提到了 Mabel 寫信描述 Emily，並在她逝世後編輯出版了 Emily 的詩集。她們在文學創作上有著連結，但你非常棒地意識到，文章並沒有給出任何證據來證明她們之間有親屬關係或私交。這種區分「文中明確提及」與「過度推論」的能力，是閱讀理解中非常寶貴的技巧，你做得非常到位！
- 解題亮點：這題的設計難度是 medium，它巧妙地考驗了大家在閱讀時是否能保持客觀。很多時候，我們很容易會習慣性地為文章中的角色「腦補」一些關係，例如認為她們一定是親人或密友。但你成功地抗拒了這種主觀臆測，只依據文本提供的資訊來判斷，這是一個非常成熟且值得肯定的閱讀習慣。繼續保持下去，你會越來越棒的！