hce_nthu
115年
英文
第 37 題
📖 題組：
Privilege is a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor. There is racial privilege, gender (and identity) privilege, heterosexual privilege, economic privilege, able-bodied privilege, educational privilege, religious privilege and the list goes on and on. At some point, you have to surrender to the kinds of privilege you hold because everyone has something someone else doesn’t. The problem is, we talk about privilege with such alarming frequency and in such empty ways, we have diluted the word’s meaning. When people wield the word privilege it tends to fall on deaf ears because we hear that word so damn much the word has become white noise. One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do is accept and acknowledge my privilege. This is something I am still working on. I’m a woman, a person of color, and the child of immigrants but I also grew up middle class and then upper middle class. My parents raised my siblings and I in a strict but loving environment. They were and are happily married so I didn’t have to deal with divorce or crappy intramarital dynamics. I attended elite schools. My master’s and doctoral degrees were funded. I got a tenure track position my first time out. My bills are paid. I have the time and resources for frivolity. I am reasonably well published. I have an agent so I have every reason to believe my novel will find a home. My life has been far from perfect but I have a whole lot of privilege. It’s somewhat embarrassing for me to accept just how much privilege I have. It’s also really difficult for me to accept my privilege when I consider the ways in which I lack privilege or the ways in which my privilege hasn’t magically rescued me from a world of hurt. On my more difficult days, I’m not sure what’s more of a pain in my ass — being black or being a woman. I’m happy to be both of these things, but the world keeps intervening.
Privilege is a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor. There is racial privilege, gender (and identity) privilege, heterosexual privilege, economic privilege, able-bodied privilege, educational privilege, religious privilege and the list goes on and on. At some point, you have to surrender to the kinds of privilege you hold because everyone has something someone else doesn’t. The problem is, we talk about privilege with such alarming frequency and in such empty ways, we have diluted the word’s meaning. When people wield the word privilege it tends to fall on deaf ears because we hear that word so damn much the word has become white noise. One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do is accept and acknowledge my privilege. This is something I am still working on. I’m a woman, a person of color, and the child of immigrants but I also grew up middle class and then upper middle class. My parents raised my siblings and I in a strict but loving environment. They were and are happily married so I didn’t have to deal with divorce or crappy intramarital dynamics. I attended elite schools. My master’s and doctoral degrees were funded. I got a tenure track position my first time out. My bills are paid. I have the time and resources for frivolity. I am reasonably well published. I have an agent so I have every reason to believe my novel will find a home. My life has been far from perfect but I have a whole lot of privilege. It’s somewhat embarrassing for me to accept just how much privilege I have. It’s also really difficult for me to accept my privilege when I consider the ways in which I lack privilege or the ways in which my privilege hasn’t magically rescued me from a world of hurt. On my more difficult days, I’m not sure what’s more of a pain in my ass — being black or being a woman. I’m happy to be both of these things, but the world keeps intervening.
37. The author is most concerned that the word “privilege”
- A has become so common that it loses its impact.
- B is used only by activists and therefore no longer carries with it a sense of urgency.
- C is too difficult to define.
- D unfairly targets wealthy people.
- E ignores class differences.
思路引導 VIP
想像一下，如果你住家附近的警報器每天從早到晚都不斷地響著，久而久之，當真正的危險發生時，你的聽覺反應會產生什麼樣的變化？請回頭看看文中第一段提到的「white noise（白噪音）」和「deaf ears（充耳不聞）」，作者想藉此比喻當一個詞彙被過度頻繁地使用時，會對讀者的心理感受造成什麼影響？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你非常敏銳地抓住了作者在第一段所表達的核心憂慮，這顯示你具備相當優秀的文意擷取能力。
關鍵意象的精準判讀
作者在文章開頭便直接點出，我們談論「特權」（privilege）的頻率高得驚人，但往往是以空洞的方式在使用，這導致了該詞彙語意的淡化（diluted）。文中特別使用了 「白噪音」（white noise） 與 「充耳不聞」（fall on deaf ears） 這兩個生動的比喻，具體描繪了當一個嚴肅的詞彙被過度消耗、淪為口號後，大眾反而會產生感官疲勞，進而失去對該議題應有的衝擊感與反思，這正是選項 (A) 所描述的「失去影響力」。
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