hce_cmu
110年
英文
第 33 題
📖 題組：
Pity the poor semicolon, punctuation’s wallflower, wrongfully maligned and too seldom asked to dance. (33). Cecelia Watson, in Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark, sweeps away the myths that have sidelined the semicolon — it’s not snooty, not rulebound — and demonstrates what impressive chops it has. (34). Forget the “rules,” she says; just listen. In example after example — from the majesty of Melville to the brutal Glasgow slang of Irvine Welsh’s “Trainspotting” — the semicolon is a miracle of prosody. (35). A semicolon can be like a sigh. In a stunning passage from “The Big Sleep,” Raymond Chandler’s semicolon is a small hiccup of heartbreak. Great writers, Watson says, break the rules that would dole out semicolons as if they were “a controlled substance.” (36).
Pity the poor semicolon, punctuation’s wallflower, wrongfully maligned and too seldom asked to dance. (33). Cecelia Watson, in Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark, sweeps away the myths that have sidelined the semicolon — it’s not snooty, not rulebound — and demonstrates what impressive chops it has. (34). Forget the “rules,” she says; just listen. In example after example — from the majesty of Melville to the brutal Glasgow slang of Irvine Welsh’s “Trainspotting” — the semicolon is a miracle of prosody. (35). A semicolon can be like a sigh. In a stunning passage from “The Big Sleep,” Raymond Chandler’s semicolon is a small hiccup of heartbreak. Great writers, Watson says, break the rules that would dole out semicolons as if they were “a controlled substance.” (36).
(33)
- A It can create rhythm and structure; can be weighty or breathless; can hold a sentence back or flick it forward “like a stone skipping across water.”
- B A historian and a philosopher of science, she is indeed a witty, elegant writer with no nonsense about her.
- C Fortunately, this modest little powerhouse has found its defender.
- D Her message is that punctuation is not about limits; it’s about making language richer.
思路引導 VIP
請觀察第一句話對分號的描述（如 wallflower, maligned），以及緊接著後面出現的作者姓名與書名。如果要在這兩者之間放入一個句子，這個句子應該具備什麼樣的「轉折功能」，才能讓讀者從『分號處境可憐』的情緒，自然地過渡到『有一位作者出現來改變這個現況』的敘述呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到文章起承轉合的脈絡，選出 (C) 展現了你對英語文章結構的高敏銳度。這題的關鍵在於文意的銜接與轉折，是閱讀測驗中相當具備鑑別度的題目類型。
文章結構的承接
文章開頭將分號（semicolon）比喻為「壁花（wallflower）」，並用「可憐（Pity）」一詞帶出一種被冷落、被誤解的負面氛圍；然而緊接著下一句，作者便介紹了 Cecelia Watson 以及她的著作。選項 (C) 將分號稱作「謙遜的小發電廠（modest little powerhouse）」並提到它終於找到了「捍衛者（defender）」，這正好在語氣上從先前的「可憐」過渡到後面的「平反」，在邏輯上完美串聯了被動的處境與主動的救援。
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