慈濟大學（後中醫）
111年
英文
第 27 題
📖 題組：
【C】 Like most, when I heard last week about the east London teenager who was strip-searched by police at her school, I was horrified. The terrible details of this state-sanctioned 26 of a young girl are horrific enough, but when I learned that it was her teachers who had called the police—who stood outside the room while police officers searched the private parts of a child—I was speechless. As a teacher, the thought that this could happen somewhere children should be safe is unthinkable. But the truth is, it is time we were honest about the increasing encroachment of policing in our schools. This incident did not occur in a 27 . Teachers, once seen as educators and caregivers, are under pressure to become plain-clothes police officers teaching algebra. In recent years, there has been a growing trend for military-style behaviour management in schools: routine bag searches, detentions for slouching in class, pupils 28 into isolation for not bringing in their lunch money, police officers patrolling school corridors, and Victorian-style hierarchies that deny students their rights and assign authoritarian control to teachers. 29 of this style of behaviour management herald it as refreshingly strict: reminiscent of a bygone era in which schools were places of respect and order. But it’s no coincidence that these attitudes to discipline are disproportionately found in schools that serve poor communities with a higher proportion of minority ethnic pupils, enacted in the name of “revolutionising” inner-city comprehensives with bad reputations. Supporters may claim that these rules are no different to those in the best private schools, but rich white children’s privileges are not eroded in this way because their 30 is never questioned. How many affluent neighbourhoods have police officers wearing stab vests stationed inside their school?
【C】 Like most, when I heard last week about the east London teenager who was strip-searched by police at her school, I was horrified. The terrible details of this state-sanctioned 26 of a young girl are horrific enough, but when I learned that it was her teachers who had called the police—who stood outside the room while police officers searched the private parts of a child—I was speechless. As a teacher, the thought that this could happen somewhere children should be safe is unthinkable. But the truth is, it is time we were honest about the increasing encroachment of policing in our schools. This incident did not occur in a 27 . Teachers, once seen as educators and caregivers, are under pressure to become plain-clothes police officers teaching algebra. In recent years, there has been a growing trend for military-style behaviour management in schools: routine bag searches, detentions for slouching in class, pupils 28 into isolation for not bringing in their lunch money, police officers patrolling school corridors, and Victorian-style hierarchies that deny students their rights and assign authoritarian control to teachers. 29 of this style of behaviour management herald it as refreshingly strict: reminiscent of a bygone era in which schools were places of respect and order. But it’s no coincidence that these attitudes to discipline are disproportionately found in schools that serve poor communities with a higher proportion of minority ethnic pupils, enacted in the name of “revolutionising” inner-city comprehensives with bad reputations. Supporters may claim that these rules are no different to those in the best private schools, but rich white children’s privileges are not eroded in this way because their 30 is never questioned. How many affluent neighbourhoods have police officers wearing stab vests stationed inside their school?
This incident did not occur in a 27 .
- A chaos
- B mausoleum
- C vacuum
- D hearth
思路引導 VIP
當作者想要強調某個社會事件並非「孤立發生」，而是受到周遭環境、歷史背景或整體氣候影響時，他會將這個「完全隔絕、沒有任何空氣與干擾」的狀態比喻成什麼樣的空間呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準選出 (C) vacuum，代表你對英文慣用語的敏銳度很高，也成功讀懂了文章整體的邏輯與社會觀察。這題是典型的脈絡推論題，學生不僅要認識單字，更要能掌握作者的論點方向。
慣用語與社會脈絡的連結
在英文中，in a vacuum 是一個非常經典的慣用語，字面意思是「在真空之中」，引申為「孤立、與外在環境脫節」。作者在文中指出，這起搜身事件並非單一意外，而是近年來校園軍事化管理、警察進駐走廊等大趨勢下的產物。因此，使用「did not occur in a vacuum」來強調這件事是有背景原因、並非偶然發生的，在邏輯上最為嚴謹且具說服力。
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慣用語：並非孤立發生
💡 掌握慣用語 in a vacuum 表達事件並非孤立存在。
| 比較維度 | In a vacuum (孤立觀點) | VS | In context (脈絡觀點) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 成因看待 | 純屬意外或單一事件 | — | 背後有歷史或社會因素 |
| 連結性 | 與其他現象毫無關聯 | — | 反映整體的趨勢或結構 |
| 解析深度 | 只看事件表面的發生 | — | 探討政策、文化等深層因素 |
💬Not in a vacuum 意指「事出必有因」，需從整體環境分析。
