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請依下文回答第 37 題至第 40 題：Often labeled a poet of memory, Li-young Lee, an Asian American, utilizes both the power and insufficiency of memory todiscover his origins. Lee’s reliance on memory illustrates its capacity to achieve the mythic depth necessary to define himselfand the reader. But, within the Euro-centric American tradition, does Lee’s work reflect only Asian American culture?Studies show that Lee not only belongs to the American tradition, but that his poetry, in its preoccupation with memory and theloss of origin, epitomizes it. Critics often limit Lee’s poetry to a purely Asian American reading, as Lee’s poetry often attemptsto recover his Chinese heritage. Yet critics fail to realize that Lee’s heritage is redefined or even lost in his status assecond-generation Asian American. This redefinition and loss are symptoms of American culture, which is predominatelyimmigrant.Immigration, in fact, led to the possibility of America’s finding its origins in a collective and somewhat invented Europeanmind in the first place. It is in this manner that Lee, as an immigrant, can similarly participate in the American tradition. Indeed,the key factor in Lee’s capacity to be traditional is exactly the way in which he utilizes memory to combat the nihilistic threatpresent in memory’s own potential to be lost.Lee’s poetry suggests that the American tradition is not bound to any single originating culture. Instead, this tradition is a searchfor origin arriving at the conclusion that all Americans, and in fact all people, share a universal and divine origin.
37 What is this passage mainly about?
(A)Euro-centric American culture and Asian American culture are quite different.
(B)Asian Americans’search for origin is doomed to fail.
(C)All Americans share the traditions of searching for origins.
(D)American immigrants represent many diverse cultures.

參考答案

答案：C
難度：適中0.403509
統計：A(3),B(9),C(23),D(20),E(0)

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