police_4th_general
105年
[警察共同] 英文
第 44 題
📖 題組：
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension. I know that the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, now. They hoped that I would take a vocational degree, but I wanted to study English literature. A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents’ car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor. I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension. I know that the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, now. They hoped that I would take a vocational degree, but I wanted to study English literature. A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents’ car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor. I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
- A The author and her parents had different views on what to study in college.
- B The author eventually took a vocational degree.
- C The author’s parents loved Greek mythology though they did not like their daughter to study literature.
- D The author’s parents encouraged their daughter to develop creativity and imagination.
思路引導 VIP
請試著觀察文中父母對於「想像力」與「現實生活（如房貸、退休金）」的描述，並對比作者自己最想做的事情。如果父母認為某件事「無法支付房貸」，而作者卻認為那是她「唯一想做的事」，這反映出兩代人在選擇專業時，主要的考量點有什麼樣的差別？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準捕捉到了文中的核心矛盾！這份敏銳的觀察力非常值得讚許，代表你已經能從長篇敘述中快速梳理出人物間的關係與衝突。
兩代之間的價值對抗
這道題目的核心在於理解文中「理想與現實」的拉鋸。作者在文中明確提到，她渴望投入 writing novels（寫小說）與 English literature（英國文學），然而雙親因出身貧寒（impoverished backgrounds），更看重實際的生活保障，因此希望她攻讀 vocational degree（職業取向學位）。這種對大學教育功能與目的的根本認知差異，正是文中一切情節發展的起點，也直接證實了雙方觀點的不同。
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