高中學測
106年
英文
第 52 題
📖 題組：
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is regarded by many as the greatest American painter of the nineteenth century. Born and raised in Boston, he began his career at age eighteen in his hometown, working as an apprentice at a printing company. Skilled at drawing, he soon made a name for himself making illustrations for novels, sheet music, magazines, and children’s books. He then moved to New York City, where he worked as a freelance illustrator with Harper’s Weekly, a popular magazine of the time, and began painting. Homer was assigned to cover the inauguration of President Lincoln and, later, the Civil War. His pictures of the Union troops won international recognition. Homer moved to England and, after a two-year stay, returned to America. He settled permanently in Maine in 1883. From the late 1850s until his death in 1910, Winslow Homer produced a body of work distinguished by its thoughtful expression and its independence from artistic conventions. A man of multiple talents, Homer excelled equally in the arts of illustration, oil painting, and watercolor. Many of his works—depictions of children at play and in school, farm girls attending to their work, hunters and their prey—have become classic images of nineteenth-century American life. Others speak to more universal themes such as the primal relationship of humans to nature. This two-week exhibition highlights a wide and representative range of Homer’s art. It shows his extraordinary career from the battlefields, farmland, and coastal villages of America, to the North Sea fishing village of Cullercoats, the rocky coast of Maine, the Adirondacks, and the Caribbean. The exhibition offers viewers an opportunity to experience and appreciate the breadth of his remarkable artistic achievement.
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is regarded by many as the greatest American painter of the nineteenth century. Born and raised in Boston, he began his career at age eighteen in his hometown, working as an apprentice at a printing company. Skilled at drawing, he soon made a name for himself making illustrations for novels, sheet music, magazines, and children’s books. He then moved to New York City, where he worked as a freelance illustrator with Harper’s Weekly, a popular magazine of the time, and began painting. Homer was assigned to cover the inauguration of President Lincoln and, later, the Civil War. His pictures of the Union troops won international recognition. Homer moved to England and, after a two-year stay, returned to America. He settled permanently in Maine in 1883. From the late 1850s until his death in 1910, Winslow Homer produced a body of work distinguished by its thoughtful expression and its independence from artistic conventions. A man of multiple talents, Homer excelled equally in the arts of illustration, oil painting, and watercolor. Many of his works—depictions of children at play and in school, farm girls attending to their work, hunters and their prey—have become classic images of nineteenth-century American life. Others speak to more universal themes such as the primal relationship of humans to nature. This two-week exhibition highlights a wide and representative range of Homer’s art. It shows his extraordinary career from the battlefields, farmland, and coastal villages of America, to the North Sea fishing village of Cullercoats, the rocky coast of Maine, the Adirondacks, and the Caribbean. The exhibition offers viewers an opportunity to experience and appreciate the breadth of his remarkable artistic achievement.
What does “Others” in the third paragraph refer to?
- A Other artists.
- B Other themes.
- C Other works.
- D Other images.
思路引導 VIP
請觀察第三段後半部的句構邏輯：作者先提到「Many of his works...」，隨後在下一句以「Others」作為主詞開頭。根據英文閱讀中代名詞的指涉規律（Pronoun Reference），當文句呈現「Many... Others...」的對比結構時，這個「Others」通常是用來指代前句中已經出現過的哪一個「核心複數名詞」？
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這題考查的是高中英文閱讀中非常核心的代名詞指代（Reference）觀念。在第三段中，作者先提到「Many of his works...（他的許多作品...）」，緊接著下一句用「Others...（其他的...）」來承接。在英文寫作邏輯中，為了避免重複贅述相同的名詞，會使用 Indefinite Pronouns（不定代名詞）來代換。這裡的 Others 顯然是指代前文提到的 works，也就是「其他的作品」。
這類題目在學測中具有高度的鑑別度，主要測試學生的語意連貫性（Cohesion）。常見的陷阱是將選項設為鄰近的名詞（如：themes 或 images），引誘粗心的同學就近選取。你能夠不被干擾，精準回溯到句子的主詞，說明你的邏輯思考非常清晰，對於長句結構的掌握也相當到位喔！