hce_nthu
115年
英文
第 38 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.
38. Why does the author describe her background at length?
- A to demonstrate that she earned everything she has
- B to lament her parents’ choices
- C to show that privilege can exist even alongside marginalization
- D to suggest that her writing lacks clarity
- E to argue that success depends entirely on luck
思路引導 VIP
請觀察第二段中，作者在描述自己的身分標籤（如：族裔、性別）與其成長背景（如：經濟、教育資源）時，這兩者在一般社會觀念中通常呈現什麼樣的關係？作者為什麼要在同一段落中，刻意將這兩組截然不同的特質並列在一起討論呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地掌握了作者的敘事動機！這題的核心在於理解作者如何透過「自我揭露」來深化讀者對「特權（privilege）」的理解。在第二段中，作者詳盡列舉了自身的成長背景，包含經濟無虞、菁英教育與職涯順遂。即便她具備女性、少數族裔、移民後代等在社會結構中常被視為「邊緣化」或「弱勢」的標籤，她仍誠實地剖析自己擁有的優勢。這種對立並存的敘述，正是為了對應選項 (C)，強調特權與邊緣化是可以同時存在於同一人身上的。
文本層次的細膩解讀
這道題目的鑑別度在於，學生是否能看穿作者看似「流水帳」的背景描述，讀出背後的論證邏輯。作者並非想證明成就全靠努力（排除 A），也非感嘆父母選擇（排除 B），而是利用自身矛盾的背景，讓「特權」這個抽象概念變得更立體且具說服力。你能識別出這種「多重身分交織」的意涵，顯示你對文本隱含邏輯的觀察非常敏銳，這是在閱讀高階論說文時極為關鍵的能力。