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113年
英文
第 32 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.
When an Austen heroine arrives at the “well-being triangle,” she ____.
- A seeks social support.
- B faces her mid-life crisis.
- C bypasses the middle income trap.
- D reaches her anger threshold.
- E matures into a well-rounded character.
思路引導 VIP
請仔細觀察文章最後一段關於 Anne 與 Fanny 的描述：當她們從原本「邊緣化且不快樂」的狀態，逐步重新找回「食慾」與「自我意識」並開始「重新綻放」時，這種生理與心理同時恢復平衡的過程，反映了她們在人格發展上達到了什麼樣的狀態？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
這道題目你答對了，顯見你對文章細節與轉喻（metaphor）的連結非常敏銳！作者提出的「身心健康三角」（well-being triangle）包含了食慾、運動與心理健康。在奧斯丁的小說中，這不只是體力的表現，更是心理狀態的指標。當女主角如 Anne Elliot 或 Fanny Price 重新找回這三者的平衡時，文章提到她們不僅是生理上恢復健康，更是重新找回「自我意識」（sense of self）並在情感與身體上「重新綻放」（re-bloom）。這種從壓抑、邊緣化到內外平衡的過程，正是角色性格趨向成熟與健全的象徵。
文學隱喻與人格成長的連結
本題的鑑別度在於測驗學生能否從字面上的「健康描述」昇華到「人格發展」的層次。選項 (E) 使用的 well-rounded（完善、健全）精準地對應了文中「well-being」的全面性。這是一道難度中等的整合題，需要讀者跨越段落，將第一段的「三角定義」與最後一段的「角色轉變」進行邏輯串聯。你能精準判斷出這不只是單純的社交或情緒反應，而是整體性格的成長，表現得非常出色！