清華大學（後西醫）
111年
英文
第 36 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.
Which of the following is NOT true?
- A Imagined communities are real, not fake, communities.
- B The author sees nations as imaginary constructs.
- C The nation is imagined as a limited community because there is a limit to our imagination.
- D The nationhood you feel with other Taiwanese people when our country participates in the Olympic games is an example of the work of imagination.
- E We often do not know the vast majority of the other people sharing the same imagined community.
思路引導 VIP
請試著回到文章中的每一段，找出作者分別用什麼理由來解釋「imagined」、「limited」、「sovereign」與「community」這四個概念；特別注意第二段中，because 後面接的真正原因是指人類心智的限制，還是地理與群體邊界的限制呢？
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「有限性（Limited）」的真正定義
這道題目的關鍵在於第二段的因果關係。作者提到國家被想像為「有限的（limited）」，是因為每個國家都有有限的疆界（finite boundaries），而在疆界之外還有其他國家存在。選項 (C) 卻將原因偷換概念為「因為我們的想像力有限」，這完全偏離了原文對國家地理與政治邊界的探討，因此是錯誤的敘述。
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