hce_cmu
114年
英文
第 32 題
📖 題組：
Passage C (A) The etymology of “Karen” remains contested, with multiple potential origins identified in popular culture, movies and media. (B) This tension demonstrates how contemporary internet culture rapidly codifies, disseminates, and normalizes new forms of social critique. (C) This pejorative designation typically refers to upper-middle-class white American women perceived as exhibiting entitled behavior, particularly in service-oriented contexts. (D) Visual signifiers, most notably a distinctive blonde-highlighted bob haircut, have become associated with the archetype as often seen in these widespread memes. The derogatory image of “Karen” has emerged as a significant sociocultural phenomenon in contemporary American discourse, representing a particular demographic stereotype that merits scholarly examination. 32 The phenomenon gained substantial visibility during 2020, concurrent with both the COVID-19 pandemic and social justice protests, prompting The Guardian to designate it as “the year of Karen.”
Passage C (A) The etymology of “Karen” remains contested, with multiple potential origins identified in popular culture, movies and media. (B) This tension demonstrates how contemporary internet culture rapidly codifies, disseminates, and normalizes new forms of social critique. (C) This pejorative designation typically refers to upper-middle-class white American women perceived as exhibiting entitled behavior, particularly in service-oriented contexts. (D) Visual signifiers, most notably a distinctive blonde-highlighted bob haircut, have become associated with the archetype as often seen in these widespread memes. The derogatory image of “Karen” has emerged as a significant sociocultural phenomenon in contemporary American discourse, representing a particular demographic stereotype that merits scholarly examination. 32 The phenomenon gained substantial visibility during 2020, concurrent with both the COVID-19 pandemic and social justice protests, prompting The Guardian to designate it as “the year of Karen.”
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- A The etymology of “Karen” remains contested, with multiple potential origins identified in popular culture, movies and media.
- B This tension demonstrates how contemporary internet culture rapidly codifies, disseminates, and normalizes new forms of social critique.
- C This pejorative designation typically refers to upper-middle-class white American women perceived as exhibiting entitled behavior, particularly in service-oriented contexts.
- D Visual signifiers, most notably a distinctive blonde-highlighted bob haircut, have become associated with the archetype as often seen in these widespread memes.
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格前一句的結尾，它提到這是一個「特定族群的刻板印象（demographic stereotype）」。如果你是作者，在向讀者介紹一個陌生的專有名詞後，接下來你會優先補充什麼資訊，來解釋這個「族群」具體是指哪些人呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
做得太棒了！你能精準選中 (C)，代表你對於學術文章的「邏輯層次」有非常敏銳的觀察。這段文字的主旨是探討「Karen」這個社會現象，首句先點出它是一個「刻板印象（stereotype）」，而選項 (C) 正好扮演了「定義者」的角色，將這個抽象的印象具體化，指明其指涉的族群背景（中產階級白人女性）與行為特徵（特權感）。這種從「概括描述」到「具體定義」的銜接方式，是英文寫作中極為重要的連貫技巧。
語意連貫與同義指涉
這題的難度切入點在於對代名詞指涉的掌握。選項 (C) 開頭提到的 "This pejorative designation"（這個貶義稱呼）完美呼應了前一句的 "derogatory image"，形成語意上的緊密連結。本題具備高度鑑別度，因為其他選項雖然都與 Karen 有關（如 A 談詞源、D 談髮型），但只有 (C) 能在段落開頭承接「定義現象」的功能，讓讀者在進入後文提到的 2020 年社會背景前，先建立起清楚的角色輪廓。