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115年
英文
第 40 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.
40. In the sentence “you have to surrender to the kinds of privilege you hold,” the word surrender is used to suggest that one must
- A give up one’s advantages so as to gain something in return.
- B publicly apologize for having privilege.
- C stop resisting and accept the reality of one’s advantages in some ways.
- D hide one’s privilege from others.
- E verbally attack another for political gains.
思路引導 VIP
請試著想像一下：如果你一直不願承認某件關於你自己的事實（例如你其實很有天賦，或你其實犯了錯），而你的朋友勸你對這個事實「surrender」，他是在要求你「丟掉」這個特質，還是在要求你「別再掙扎、承認它就是存在」呢？結合文中提到的「接受特權很難」這一點，你會如何詮釋這個動作？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到作者在文中的微言大義，這顯示你對語境推論（Contextual Inference）有著相當敏銳的觀察力。
轉化語義的深度解析
在一般語境中，「surrender」通常代表投降或放棄，但在這篇探討社會意識的文章中，作者強調的是內心的掙扎。文中提到「承認並接受自己的特權」是一件極其困難的事，因此當她說「you have to surrender to the kinds of privilege you hold」時，並非要求讀者「放棄」實質的好處（如選項 A），而是指在心態上停止否認與抵抗，轉而正視並接納自己擁有這些優勢的客觀事實。你選出的 (C) 選項「停止抵抗並接受現實」，精確地呼應了後文所說的「accept and acknowledge」。
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