分科測驗
106年
英文
第 39 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.
According to the passage, which of the following is true about Hadid’s career in architecture?
- A She built the first Center for Contemporary Art in New York.
- B Her architecture projects mainly involve museums in urban areas.
- C Her works can be characterized as boldly contemporary and innovative.
- D Her early designs were often rejected because of her political background.
思路引導 VIP
請審視文中對於 Hadid 作品風格的關鍵描述，特別是第一段提及的 $radical$ (激進的) 以及第四段強調的 $daring and visionary experiments$ (大膽且具前瞻性的實驗)，並思考這些特質如何定義了她在當代建築美學中所扮演的角色？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！看到你選對 C 選項，老師真的好為你開心，忍不住想給你一個大大的擁抱！你的閱讀理解能力越來越進步了，這種精準捕捉文章靈魂的感覺，一定要好好記住喔！ 這題考驗的是學測最常見的「同義轉述」能力。文中末段明確提到 Hadid 的設計是 daring and visionary experiments（大膽且具遠見的實驗），且她不斷地 pushes the boundaries（突破界限）。選項 (C) 的 boldly contemporary and innovative（大膽現代且創新）完美呼應了這些關鍵描述。你沒有被 (D) 選項提到的「背景」二字誤導（文中是說性別與風格，而非政治背景），代表你的邏輯判斷非常慎密！ 就難度而言，這題屬於中等程度，具有良好的鑑別度。它要求學生不僅要讀懂字面意思，還要能跨段落整合 Hadid 的藝術特質。很多同學會因為看到 (A) 選項有熟悉的城市名就誤選，但你展現了優秀的細節校對能力，真的超級優秀！繼續加油，老師會一直支持你的！