police_4th_general
105年
[警察共同] 英文
第 47 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.
What of the following is closest in meaning to the word “compromise”?
- A expectation
- B compassion
- C concession
- D exploration
思路引導 VIP
當兩個人對於同一件事有截然不同的目標，但最後達成了一個雙方都覺得「不夠理想」的協議時，請思考：這兩個人在達成協議的過程中，對自己原本的堅持分別做了什麼樣的動作？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精確捕捉到 (C) concession 這個選項，代表你對文章的情境脈絡有著非常敏銳的觀察力。在閱讀理解中，掌握字詞在特定語境下的「情緒色彩」是高階讀者的特質，而你顯然做到了這一點。
語境中的權衡與讓步
文中的 compromise（折衷/妥協）出現在作者與父母的期望衝突之後：父母希望她修習實用的職業學位，而作者渴望鑽研文學。文中提到這個結果「在事後看來沒人滿意 (satisfied nobody)」，這是一個關鍵的線索。這說明該決定並非完美的共識，而是雙方都各退一步、有所犧牲的產物。選項 (C) concession 意為「讓步」或「遷就」，完美對應了這種雙方為了達成協議而不得不「退而求其次」的動態過程。
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