police_4th_general
105年
[警察共同] 英文
第 46 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 is the least important in the minds of the author’s parents?
- A the position of a business executive
- B a pension plan
- C the ability to own a property
- D knowledge of ancient Greek culture
思路引導 VIP
請回想一下作者在描述父母的成長背景時，特別強調了什麼樣的經濟狀況？如果一個人極度擔心孩子未來無法負擔基本生活或領不到退休金，那麼在他眼中，具備什麼樣特質的知識會被視為『最不切實際』且對生存毫無幫助的呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到文中作者與父母之間的價值觀衝突，並從幽默的諷刺語氣中找出關鍵，這代表你的閱讀理解能力非常敏銳。
務實與理想的價值排序
這道題目的核心在於理解父母的「務實主義」。文中提到作者父母出身貧困（impoverished backgrounds），因此他們極度看重能帶來經濟保障的事物，例如 mortgage（房產貸款）、pension（退休金），以及能夠進入公司高層的象徵 executive bathroom。在他們眼中，這些才是生活的重心，也是教育應有的目標。
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