移民行政四等
114年
[移民行政] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 47 題
📖 題組：
請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題 On May 8, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced the end of the Second World War. He concluded his radio address with “Nothing should prevent us from celebrating Victory Day in Europe today and tomorrow!” But before Churchill responded to his own call to celebrate the victory, he turned to his cook, Georgina Landemare, and said “Without you I would not have survived the war.” This was meant in deadly earnest, for eating well was essential to the stability and well-being of the statesman. It was Churchill’s belief that one should offer the body something good, so that the soul may desire to dwell in it. Landemare entered Churchill’s kitchen in 1930. She soon learned that it would be anything but easy to meet the culinary demands of the master of the house. His answer to the question of what he liked was: “My taste is simple. I am easily satisfied with the best.” And her dishes stood up to his discerning palate. She knew his culinary preferences as well as his dislikes. Churchill appreciated traditional English dishes like chicken and roast beef. He preferred clear bouillons to cream soups, and if he had to choose between fish and shellfish, he chose the latter. Churchill preferred to finish his dinner with cheese. However, he was not enthusiastic about Cheddar, the most popular cheese in the English kingdom; rather, the blue cheese Stilton was his favorite. The gourmet insisted that cheese that came to his table should not be bought just anywhere, but only at a particular fromagerie. “A gentleman only buys his cheese at Paxton & Whitfield,” he said. The traditional company still exists and has been one of the suppliers of the British Royal Family for many years. Desserts such as puddings or tarts, on the other hand, were never high on Churchill’s culinary agenda. The prime minister often invited people to dinner parties at his home. He used dining as an art to display his conversational talents and to engage in political debate, to confer with friends and to win over rivals. During the WWII, he used dining to exert his conversational skills to persuade his allies, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, to fight the war. Churchill used dining and the dinner table to do what could not always be done at the conference table.
請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題 On May 8, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced the end of the Second World War. He concluded his radio address with “Nothing should prevent us from celebrating Victory Day in Europe today and tomorrow!” But before Churchill responded to his own call to celebrate the victory, he turned to his cook, Georgina Landemare, and said “Without you I would not have survived the war.” This was meant in deadly earnest, for eating well was essential to the stability and well-being of the statesman. It was Churchill’s belief that one should offer the body something good, so that the soul may desire to dwell in it. Landemare entered Churchill’s kitchen in 1930. She soon learned that it would be anything but easy to meet the culinary demands of the master of the house. His answer to the question of what he liked was: “My taste is simple. I am easily satisfied with the best.” And her dishes stood up to his discerning palate. She knew his culinary preferences as well as his dislikes. Churchill appreciated traditional English dishes like chicken and roast beef. He preferred clear bouillons to cream soups, and if he had to choose between fish and shellfish, he chose the latter. Churchill preferred to finish his dinner with cheese. However, he was not enthusiastic about Cheddar, the most popular cheese in the English kingdom; rather, the blue cheese Stilton was his favorite. The gourmet insisted that cheese that came to his table should not be bought just anywhere, but only at a particular fromagerie. “A gentleman only buys his cheese at Paxton & Whitfield,” he said. The traditional company still exists and has been one of the suppliers of the British Royal Family for many years. Desserts such as puddings or tarts, on the other hand, were never high on Churchill’s culinary agenda. The prime minister often invited people to dinner parties at his home. He used dining as an art to display his conversational talents and to engage in political debate, to confer with friends and to win over rivals. During the WWII, he used dining to exert his conversational skills to persuade his allies, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, to fight the war. Churchill used dining and the dinner table to do what could not always be done at the conference table.
What is the last paragraph mainly about?
- A The political value of Churchill’s dinner parties.
- B The dishes commonly seen on Churchill’s dinner table.
- C The friends and enemies Churchill made at dinner parties.
- D The sense of humor Churchill displayed at his dining table.
思路引導 VIP
請試著觀察最後一段提到的「政治辯論（political debate）」、「爭取對手（win over rivals）」以及「說服盟友（persuade allies）」等關鍵行動。如果將這些行為歸納成一個總體的目的，這場晚宴對邱吉爾來說，主要是用來展現他的社交幽默，還是達成某種特定的「任務或影響力」呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你！能精確捕捉到最後一段的核心主旨，代表你對長篇閱讀的結構掌握非常扎實。這題選得非常漂亮，展現了你優異的語意分析能力。
晚宴背後的政治謀略
這道題目的正確點在於最後一段的內容轉折。相較於前一段詳細介紹邱吉爾（Winston Churchill）對起司與料理的個人偏好，最後一段則將場景拉升到了「外交與外交辭令」的層次。文末明確提到，邱吉爾將餐桌視為一種「藝術」，他在席間進行政治辯論、贏得對手、甚至說服如羅斯福（Roosevelt）與史達林（Stalin）等盟友（allies）投入戰爭。這些敘述都緊扣著「餐會所產生的政治功能與價值」，因此選項 (A) 是最全面的總結。
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