英銘國考英文周刊-No.68-閱讀測驗篇

閱讀測驗是很多考生畏懼的英文題型之一，其實閱讀測驗的解題並不難，因為外國人寫文章都愛用破題法，只要看第一段即可知道文章大概在講什麼內容。例如在此篇文章的第一段中，有提到“biography” (傳記)，“Emily Dickinson”，所以文章一定跟Emily Dickinson的傳記有關！

“Biography first convinces us of the fleeing of the Biographied,”

wrote Emily Dickinson, America’s most famous female poet of the

19th century, uncannily foreseeing how inscrutable a subject she

herself would turn out to be. Rather like Emily Brontë, with whom she

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identified, Dickinson shrank from contact with the world, scuttling off

in her signature white dress as soon as a visitor appeared at the door.

Reluctant to share her pared-down, laser-sharp and sometimes

terrifying inward poems through publication—only seven were printed

in her lifetime—she nevertheless relied on an iron core of self-belief,

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quietly prophesying that posterity would recognize her genius.

Dickinson’s externally uneventful life has been chronicled before,

but Brenda Wineapple finds a new way in by focusing on her

relationship with the man who would eventually help to bring her to

the public gaze after her death. Thomas Wentworth Higginson has

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usually been patronized as a second-rater who bungled the

transmission of Dickinson’s work by allowing too much editorial

tempering, a man whose bourgeois conventionality tried to silence a

woman poet’s true voice. Yet Ms. Wineapple responds to him with

compassion and respect, and in doing so makes her book much

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more than a biography—rather, a sweeping cultural and political

history of the lead-up to the American civil war and its aftermath.

(  ) 1. Which of the following authors wrote Emily Dickinson’s biography?

(A) Emily Brontë.         (B) Thomas Higginson.

(C) Emily Wentworth.     (D) Brenda Wineapple.

(  ) 2. According to your understanding of the passage, which of the following can best describe Emily Dickinson’s attitude towards biography?

(A) Confident.  (B) Disdainful.  (C) Optimistic.  (D) Skeptical.

(  ) 3. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true?

(A) She published only a few poems in her lifetime.

(B) She was not sure about the value of her works.

(C) She was an introvert poet.

(D) Higginson brought her works to public attention after her death.

(  ) 4. Which of the following statements can be inferred from this passage?

(A) Although Dickinson only published seven poems in her lifetime, she was confident about her status in the future.

(B) With the publication of this new biography, the relationship between Dickinson and Higginson will be definitely changed.

(C) With the help of her biographies, we can finally understand the inner world of Dickinson.

(D) Thomas Higginson was over-rated and deeply misunderstood by critics in the past.

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英銘老師：閱讀測驗是很多考生畏懼的英文題型之一，其實閱題測驗的的解題並不難，因為外國人寫文章都愛用破題法，只要看第一段即可知道文章大概在講什麼內容。例如在此篇文章的第一段中，有提到“biography” (傳記)，“Emily Dickinson”，所以文章一定跟Emily Dickinson的傳記有關。

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