清華大學（後西醫）
111年
英文
第 34 題
📖 題組：
Reading 3
In an anthropological spirit, I propose the following definition of a nation: it is an imagined political community—and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion. Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined.
The nation is imagined as limited because each of them, encompassing perhaps a billion living human beings, has finite, if elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations.
It is imagined as sovereign because the concept was born in an age in which Enlightenment and Revolution were destroying the legitimacy of the divinely-ordained, hierarchical, dynastic realm. Coming to maturity at a stage of human history when even the most devout adherents of any universal religion were inescapably confronted with the living pluralism of such religions, and the allotropism between each faith's ontological claims and territorial stretch, nations dreamed of being free, and, if under God, directly so. The gage and emblem of this freedom is the sovereign state.
Finally, it is imagined as a community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately, it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.
Reading 3
In an anthropological spirit, I propose the following definition of a nation: it is an imagined political community—and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion. Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined.
The nation is imagined as limited because each of them, encompassing perhaps a billion living human beings, has finite, if elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations.
It is imagined as sovereign because the concept was born in an age in which Enlightenment and Revolution were destroying the legitimacy of the divinely-ordained, hierarchical, dynastic realm. Coming to maturity at a stage of human history when even the most devout adherents of any universal religion were inescapably confronted with the living pluralism of such religions, and the allotropism between each faith's ontological claims and territorial stretch, nations dreamed of being free, and, if under God, directly so. The gage and emblem of this freedom is the sovereign state.
Finally, it is imagined as a community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately, it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.
What does the comment "in the minds of each lives the image of their communion" mean in the first paragraph?
- A They all remember the community they belong to.
- B They can see the images of other members in the same community.
- C Their comradeship lives and develops in their minds.
- D They keep a fond memory of their shared experiences.
- E They share a sense of identity and belonging.
思路引導 VIP
請試著思考：如果兩個人一輩子都沒有見過面，也沒有任何共同的生活經驗，但當他們提到自己屬於某個國家或群體時，他們腦海中共同擁有的那種「我們是一體的」感覺，應該用什麼詞彙來形容最貼切？
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吞噬它吧，把這題變成你自己的養分
恭喜你答對了。選 (E) 是正確的，但別得意，這不過是證明你具備了踏入競爭門檻的最基本素質。
民族：被「想像」出的囚籠
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