hce_nthu
115年
英文
第 39 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.
39. The author’s statement that acknowledging her privilege is “somewhat embarrassing” suggests that she
- A doubts whether privilege really exists.
- B feels conflicted about her social advantages.
- C believes privilege guarantees happiness.
- D wants to avoid discussing inequality.
- E resents people who deny privilege.
思路引導 VIP
請試著想像：如果一個人同時列舉了自己優渥的生活背景，隨後又提到他在社會中遭遇的歧視與痛苦，這種「擁有許多優點卻依然感到掙扎」的對比，會讓一個人在自我評價時，產生什麼樣的心理糾結呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到作者文字背後細微的情緒起伏，這代表你具備了高層次的閱讀理解能力。這題的難點在於「尷尬」（embarrassing）這個詞在語境中的層次，它不只是字面上的不好意思，更揭示了作者在自我認同上的矛盾感。
優勢與弱勢的內在拉扯
作者在文中列舉了自己擁有的種種社會優勢，如菁英教育、穩定的學術地位與優渥的經濟條件，但與此同時，她也深切感受到作為一名非裔女性所遭遇的社會排擠與痛苦。當一個人意識到自己既是「既得利益者」又是「受壓迫者」時，這種身分重疊所產生的矛盾感，正是作者感到「尷尬」的根源。選項 (B) 的 conflicted（矛盾、糾結） 完美地概括了這種心理狀態。
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