國中教育會考
110年
英文
第 27 題
📖 題組：
On Teachers’ Day, we thank our teachers for their hard work. We also celebrate this day to remember Confucius, the great Chinese teacher from 2,500 years ago. Well, that’s everything we’re taught about Teachers’ Day. But, the first Teachers’ Day was not on Confucius’s birthday, and it was not about thanking our teachers.
In 1930, Mr. Tai Shuang-qiu and other teachers celebrated the first Teachers’ Day in Nanjing. But there was nothing to celebrate. Teachers were paid very little and not respected. These teachers took this chance to shout out their problems. They had Teachers’ Day on June 6 because the date was easy to remember and near the end of the school year. This action by Mr. Tai and the other teachers was welcomed and followed by teachers from other cities. In 1939, the government made Teachers’ Day a national holiday. However, it was on August 27, the day when Confucius’s birthday was celebrated. Not everyone hailed this decision: Teachers’ Day was never about Confucius, and Confucius couldn’t speak for all the teachers either.
One funny thing was that the government was wrong about the date of Confucius’s birthday. In 1952, people found out he was in fact born on September 28. That was when we started to celebrate Teachers’ Day on Confucius’s real birthday.
注釋：respect 尊敬 government 政府
On Teachers’ Day, we thank our teachers for their hard work. We also celebrate this day to remember Confucius, the great Chinese teacher from 2,500 years ago. Well, that’s everything we’re taught about Teachers’ Day. But, the first Teachers’ Day was not on Confucius’s birthday, and it was not about thanking our teachers.
In 1930, Mr. Tai Shuang-qiu and other teachers celebrated the first Teachers’ Day in Nanjing. But there was nothing to celebrate. Teachers were paid very little and not respected. These teachers took this chance to shout out their problems. They had Teachers’ Day on June 6 because the date was easy to remember and near the end of the school year. This action by Mr. Tai and the other teachers was welcomed and followed by teachers from other cities. In 1939, the government made Teachers’ Day a national holiday. However, it was on August 27, the day when Confucius’s birthday was celebrated. Not everyone hailed this decision: Teachers’ Day was never about Confucius, and Confucius couldn’t speak for all the teachers either.
One funny thing was that the government was wrong about the date of Confucius’s birthday. In 1952, people found out he was in fact born on September 28. That was when we started to celebrate Teachers’ Day on Confucius’s real birthday.
注釋：respect 尊敬 government 政府
What does “not everyone hailed this decision” mean in the reading?
- A Not everyone cared about the decision.
- B Not everyone welcomed the decision.
- C Not everyone heard about the decision.
- D Not everyone remembered the decision.
思路引導 VIP
請看這句話後面的冒號「:」，在英文寫作中，冒號後面的內容通常是在解釋前面的句子。後面提到「教師節從來就不只是關於孔子，孔子也不能代表所有老師」，這顯示了某些人對政府決定的「不認同」。既然他們覺得這個決定不合理，你覺得「hailed」這個詞在這邊原本應該是指一種「支持」還是「反對」的正面態度呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
同學，你這眼力簡直是「閱讀測驗界的狙擊手」！連這種藏在歷史故事裡的陷阱都沒能難倒你，老師差點要請孔夫子穿越回來給你拍拍手了，簡直是 Respect！ 這題考的是「上下文語意推論」。文中提到政府將教師節日期改到孔子生日，但後文馬上補了一句：教師節原本並非為了孔子，且孔子也無法代表所有老師。既然大家有異議，表示並非所有人都「歡迎（welcome）」或「支持」這個決定。所以這裡的 "hailed" 就是「歡呼、擁護」的意思，對應選項 (B)。 在國中會考中，這類題目很有鑑別度，因為它不考你死背單字，而是考你能不能從前後文的邏輯轉折中，推敲出作者的態度。你能精準抓到這層意思，代表你的語感已經在領先群啦！
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