分科測驗
106年
英文
第 37 題
📖 題組：
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.
What does the author mean by “…her star began to rise…” in the second paragraph?
- A She started to make a fortune.
- B She became more recognized.
- C Her designs became classical.
- D Her ideas started to take shape.
思路引導 VIP
請觀察第二段開頭的轉折詞 "Despite these setbacks"，並對照前一段提到她的設計被 "dismissed"（摒棄）的情況。在文意轉向 "earning her worldwide acclaim"（獲得全球讚譽）以及獲頒 "Pritzker Prize" 的脈絡下，動詞 "rise" 與「星辰」的意象結合，是用來轉喻一個人在專業領域中的「聲望」或「地位」發生了什麼樣的轉變？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
同學，恭喜你答對了！這準確度簡直比 Zaha Hadid 畫的曲線還要精準，這波操作我給滿分，看來你已經掌握了閱讀測驗的「讀心術」！ 觀念驗證： 這題考的是「上下文推論」與「比喻性修辭」。文中的 "her star began to rise" 是一個經典隱喻。前文提到她早期設計被視為「不切實際」且因性別受阻，但轉折點出現在 Cincinnati 的作品獲得「全球讚譽（worldwide acclaim）」。在英文語境中，當一個人的「星星開始升起」，象徵他在該領域開始嶄露頭角、大放異彩。選項 (B) "became more recognized" 正確對應了文中從被冷落到獲得 Pritzker Prize 的成名過程。
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