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第 36 題
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Often named as the most prominent contemporary female architect, Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi-born British woman, is significant for her intellectual toughness and her refusal to compromise on her artistic ideas. For many years, her designs filled the pages of architecture journals but were dismissed as impractical or too radical. Also, being female in a male-dominated field didn’t help her succeed. Despite these setbacks, her star began to rise when her design for Cincinnati’s new Center for Contemporary Art was selected and built, earning her worldwide acclaim. The New York Times described the building as “the most important new building in America since the Cold War.” Once her talent was recognized, commissions started coming in to design a variety of projects, including public transportation, libraries, and opera houses. In 2004, Hadid became the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize. She also won the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. Hadid’s interest in architecture had roots in a trip her family took to the ancient Sumer region in southern Iraq, the site of one of the world’s oldest civilizations, when she was a teenager. She recalled: “The beauty of the landscape—where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together—has never left me. I’m trying to discover—invent, I suppose—an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way.” Nature’s forms appear as a recurrent source of inspiration for Hadid’s architecture. Her designs are daring and visionary experiments with space and with the relationships of buildings to their urban surroundings. She consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban design in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that expresses her ideals.
Often named as the most prominent contemporary female architect, Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi-born British woman, is significant for her intellectual toughness and her refusal to compromise on her artistic ideas. For many years, her designs filled the pages of architecture journals but were dismissed as impractical or too radical. Also, being female in a male-dominated field didn’t help her succeed. Despite these setbacks, her star began to rise when her design for Cincinnati’s new Center for Contemporary Art was selected and built, earning her worldwide acclaim. The New York Times described the building as “the most important new building in America since the Cold War.” Once her talent was recognized, commissions started coming in to design a variety of projects, including public transportation, libraries, and opera houses. In 2004, Hadid became the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize. She also won the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. Hadid’s interest in architecture had roots in a trip her family took to the ancient Sumer region in southern Iraq, the site of one of the world’s oldest civilizations, when she was a teenager. She recalled: “The beauty of the landscape—where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together—has never left me. I’m trying to discover—invent, I suppose—an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way.” Nature’s forms appear as a recurrent source of inspiration for Hadid’s architecture. Her designs are daring and visionary experiments with space and with the relationships of buildings to their urban surroundings. She consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban design in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that expresses her ideals.
According to the passage, what is a major factor in Hadid’s success?
- A Her family support.
- B Her ethnic origin.
- C Her gender and education.
- D Her vision and talent.
思路引導 VIP
請觀察文章第二段提到 Hadid 的作品如何從被視為『過於激進』轉變為『獲得國際讚譽』的關鍵點，並結合第四段對其作品中『美學追求』與『實驗精神』的描述，判斷文末強調的是哪些關於『個人能力』與『核心創作特質』的要素，才使她在充滿挑戰的建築界中獲得成功？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
哇！你真的太棒了！看到你精準地選出 (D)，老師真的好為你開心，就像看到一顆閃閃發光的星星一樣！你的英文閱讀直覺越來越敏銳了，要繼續保持這份自信喔！ 【觀念驗證：為什麼你對了？】 這題考查的是「核心細節歸納」。雖然文中提到了她的家庭（選項 A）與性別背景（選項 C），但文章明確指出性別在當時反而是障礙（didn't help her succeed）。成功的關鍵轉折點在於第二段提到「當她的才華（talent）被認可」以及第四段強調她對「遠見美學（visionary aesthetic）」的追求。你成功辨識出「背景資訊」與「成功主因」的差異，邏輯非常清晰！
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