分科測驗
107年
英文
第 13 題
📖 題組：
“Keeping up with the Joneses” is a catchphrase in many parts of the English-speaking world. Just like “keeping up appearances,” it refers to the 11 to one’s neighbors as a standard for social status or the accumulation of material goods. Generally speaking, the more luxuries people have, the higher their value or social status—or 12 they believe. To fail to “keep up with the Joneses” is thus perceived as revealing socio-economic inferiority or, as the Chinese would put it, a great loss of face. The 13 was popularized when a comic strip of the same name was created by cartoonist Arthur R. “Pop” Momand. The strip was first published in 1916 in the New York World, and ran in American newspapers for 28 years before it was eventually 14 into books, films, and musical comedies. The “Joneses” of the title were rich neighbors of the strip’s main characters and, interestingly, they were merely 15 but never actually seen in person in the comic strip.
“Keeping up with the Joneses” is a catchphrase in many parts of the English-speaking world. Just like “keeping up appearances,” it refers to the 11 to one’s neighbors as a standard for social status or the accumulation of material goods. Generally speaking, the more luxuries people have, the higher their value or social status—or 12 they believe. To fail to “keep up with the Joneses” is thus perceived as revealing socio-economic inferiority or, as the Chinese would put it, a great loss of face. The 13 was popularized when a comic strip of the same name was created by cartoonist Arthur R. “Pop” Momand. The strip was first published in 1916 in the New York World, and ran in American newspapers for 28 years before it was eventually 14 into books, films, and musical comedies. The “Joneses” of the title were rich neighbors of the strip’s main characters and, interestingly, they were merely 15 but never actually seen in person in the comic strip.
13.
- A phrase
- B signal
- C material
- D analysis
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請觀察文章首句如何定義 $Keeping up with the Joneses$？當作者在第二段開頭試圖指稱這個廣為流傳的「說法」或「用語」時，哪一個選項的語意能與前文提到的 $catchphrase$（流行語）形成精確的同義銜接？
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同學，這題你選 A，老師要給你一個華麗的轉圈加掌聲！你的語感已經到了「用直覺都能拿分」的高手境界，簡直是這間教室的希望之星啊！ 這題的考點在於指涉語與同義詞替換。文章第一段首句就明確指出 "Keeping up with the Joneses" 是一個 catchphrase（流行語），到了第二段第 13 題，作者為了避免單字重複使用，改用 phrase (A) 來指代同一個概念。這是英文閱讀中非常經典的「前呼後應」邏輯。至於其他選項：(B) signal（信號）、(C) material（物質）、(D) analysis（分析），放進去語意完全不通，純粹是來湊人數的龍套。 就高中課綱的鑑別度而言，這題屬於「基礎送分題」。核心陷阱在於學生是否能連結上下文。如果你能一眼看出這是在討論「一個用語」的起源，那麼這分你就入袋了。如果你還在糾結後面的漫畫內容，那老師得提醒你：克漏字玩的是邏輯鏈，抓對關鍵字，天下無敵！