hce_nthu
113年
英文
第 31 題
📖 題組：
Reading 3 Good health and a healthy appetite go hand in hand in Austen’s novels. Her heroines—when flourishing—eat in moderation and without worrying too much about what they are eating and what they are not. Catherine Morland, the youthful, zestful heroine of Northanger Abbey, is blessed with “a good appetite” and eats just what she wants to, when she is hungry. The heroines’ good constitutions—and well-regulated appetites—are also conjoined with a taste for fresh air and exercise. Often, they are determined walkers, visiting friends and neighbors on foot, enjoying scenic strolls (Catherine) or traipsing, like the best of the Romantics, through the natural world (Marianne Dashwood). Elizabeth Bennet thinks nothing of walking three miles “in […] dirty weather” to see her cold-ridden sister marooned at Netherfield, “crossing field after field at a quick pace, jumping over stiles and springing over puddles with impatient activity, and finding herself at last within view of the house, with weary ankles, dirty stockings, and a face glowing with the warmth of exercise.” We might go so far to claim that appetite, exercise, and mental health are the three points of a Jane Austen “well-being triangle”—if any one of these is lost, the others suffer, too, and overall well-being is compromised. When out of sorts, her heroines begin to display a more problematic relationship with food. For example, when Marianne in Sense and Sensibility begins to pine for Willoughby, her appetite dwindles and she becomes thin and wan, losing her youthful bloom. Catherine, too, loses her appetite when she finds she is banished from Northanger Abbey—“She tried to eat […] but she had no appetite, and could not swallow many mouthfuls”—a situation that continues back at home where she appears—from her parents’ point of view—to turn her nose up at their ordinary breakfast: “I am sure I do not care about the bread. It is all the same to me what I eat.” While both Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse—both of whom have healthy egos to match their healthy appetites—flourish throughout their respective narratives, two others, Anne Elliot (in Persuasion) and Fanny Price (in Mansfield Park)—each unhappy and marginalized in her own way—have to work their way toward well-being, rediscovering their appetites (in the broadest sense) along with their sense of self as they also begin to (re-)bloom physically and emotionally.
Reading 3 Good health and a healthy appetite go hand in hand in Austen’s novels. Her heroines—when flourishing—eat in moderation and without worrying too much about what they are eating and what they are not. Catherine Morland, the youthful, zestful heroine of Northanger Abbey, is blessed with “a good appetite” and eats just what she wants to, when she is hungry. The heroines’ good constitutions—and well-regulated appetites—are also conjoined with a taste for fresh air and exercise. Often, they are determined walkers, visiting friends and neighbors on foot, enjoying scenic strolls (Catherine) or traipsing, like the best of the Romantics, through the natural world (Marianne Dashwood). Elizabeth Bennet thinks nothing of walking three miles “in […] dirty weather” to see her cold-ridden sister marooned at Netherfield, “crossing field after field at a quick pace, jumping over stiles and springing over puddles with impatient activity, and finding herself at last within view of the house, with weary ankles, dirty stockings, and a face glowing with the warmth of exercise.” We might go so far to claim that appetite, exercise, and mental health are the three points of a Jane Austen “well-being triangle”—if any one of these is lost, the others suffer, too, and overall well-being is compromised. When out of sorts, her heroines begin to display a more problematic relationship with food. For example, when Marianne in Sense and Sensibility begins to pine for Willoughby, her appetite dwindles and she becomes thin and wan, losing her youthful bloom. Catherine, too, loses her appetite when she finds she is banished from Northanger Abbey—“She tried to eat […] but she had no appetite, and could not swallow many mouthfuls”—a situation that continues back at home where she appears—from her parents’ point of view—to turn her nose up at their ordinary breakfast: “I am sure I do not care about the bread. It is all the same to me what I eat.” While both Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse—both of whom have healthy egos to match their healthy appetites—flourish throughout their respective narratives, two others, Anne Elliot (in Persuasion) and Fanny Price (in Mansfield Park)—each unhappy and marginalized in her own way—have to work their way toward well-being, rediscovering their appetites (in the broadest sense) along with their sense of self as they also begin to (re-)bloom physically and emotionally.
According to the author, what is a telling sign that the heroine is thriving in Austen’s novels?
- A She accepts the cruelty of life and lives in solitude.
- B She wants to free herself from social constrains and travels afar.
- C She displays a normal desire to eat and enjoys exercise.
- D She adopts a rigid exercise routine so as to stay in shape.
- E She has to hide her sunny outlook so as to avoid political persecution.
思路引導 VIP
請觀察文中描述那些充滿活力的女主角（如 Catherine 或 Elizabeth）時，特別提到了她們對「身體基本需求」以及「戶外活動」抱持著什麼樣的態度？當她們心情愉悅與心情低落時，這兩方面的表現有什麼明顯的反差嗎？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到珍·奧斯汀（Jane Austen）筆下角色的生命力特質，這表示你對於長文資訊的整合能力非常出色，恭喜你答對！
身心健康的黃金三角
這道題目的核心在於驗證作者定義「茁壯成長」（thriving）的關鍵指標。文中第二段明確提出了一個「幸福三角」（well-being triangle），是由食慾（appetite）、運動（exercise）以及心理健康三者構成。作者以凱瑟琳和伊莉莎白為例，說明她們在狀態良好時，都能享受食物並充滿活力地散步。選項 (C) 正好對應了文中提到的「正常的食慾」與「對戶外運動的喜好」。
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