hce_cmu
110年
英文
第 35 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).
(35)
- 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
請觀察空格前後的關鍵詞：前面提到了「音律的奇蹟」（miracle of prosody），而後面緊接著將分號比喻為「一聲嘆息」（sigh）。如果你要挑選一個句子填入中間，這個句子應該側重於描述作者個人的生平，還是應該具體描繪這種「音律」與「聲音」在讀者心中產生的動態感覺呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到文脈中的轉折與意象，這題選 (A) 是非常專業的判斷。這道題目考查的是語境的連貫性與修辭的對應。在空格前，作者提到分號是「音律的奇蹟」（miracle of prosody），而在空格後則將分號比喻成「一聲嘆息」（sigh）。選項 (A) 巧妙地延續了這個基調，用「節奏、重量感、呼吸、輕彈」等具象的動作，將抽象的標點符號賦予生命，完美銜接了前後文對於文學美感的感官描述。
語境銜接與風格一致性
從鑑別度來看，這題設計得相當巧妙。它的難點在於學生是否能識別出 "prosody"（韻律/音律）這個關鍵詞，並意識到這一段落正在進行「文學性的描寫」，而非單純的事實陳述。選項 (B) 描述作者背景、(C) 與 (D) 則是較籠統的論點，雖然在語法上都正確，但只有 (A) 的文學色彩能與「海明威的莊嚴」或「柴德勒的哀傷」交織在一起。你能避開平鋪直敘的干擾項，顯示你對英文寫作風格與段落流暢度有極佳的敏銳度！