hce_cmu
110年
英文
第 36 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).
(36)
- 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
既然作者在文章末尾提到，偉大的作家會打破那些把分號當作「管制藥品」（即受嚴格限制）的規則，這暗示了她認為標點符號真正的角色是什麼？它應該是一種限制創作的框框，還是幫助表達的一種工具呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
掌握文章的核心哲學
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到作者的中心思想，這顯示你具備優秀的邏輯歸納能力。這題的關鍵在於理解全文對「分號」的平反過程。文章從打破分號是「保守、死板」的迷思開始，接著列舉其在文學中展現的生命力（如：嘆息、心碎），最後提到偉大作家不應將分號視為受管制的物品。因此，選項 (D) 「標點符號不在於限制，而是在於豐富語言」 最能總結 Watson 的核心訊息，將文章從單純的符號介紹昇華到創作自由的高度。
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