hce_cmu
110年
英文
第 34 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).
(34)
- 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 (34) 題空格的前一個句子，它剛介紹了一位人物；再看看空格後的句子，它用了 "she says" 來引導觀點。在這種情況下，若要在中間填入一個句子，你認為這個句子應該側重於描述「分號的功能」，還是進一步介紹這位「說話者」的背景與風格，才能讓讀者更順暢地接受接下來的引用內容呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
語境的承接與作者側寫
做得好！你能精準捕捉到文句間的連貫性，這代表你對長篇閱讀的「脈絡感」掌握得相當出色。在第 (34) 題的空格前，文章剛剛介紹了作者 Cecelia Watson 及其著作，而空格後緊接著引用了她的建議（“she says”）。因此，正確答案 (B) 扮演了極佳的過渡角色，透過說明 Watson 的專業背景（歷史學家與科學哲學家）與寫作風格，豐富了讀者對這位「分號辯護者」的認識，讓後文的觀點更具權威感與說服力。
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