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Charles Dodgson, a mathematician at Christ Church, Oxford, first told his surreal story Alice'sAdventures in Wonderland to the daughters of Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, as they roweddown the Thames. After the boating trip, 10-year-old Alice Liddell badgered Dodgson to write it downand Alice in Wonderland—under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll—was born.31 The Cheshire Cat disappears leaving only the enigmatic grin behind. Alice drinks potionsand eats pieces of mushroom to change her physical state. The caterpillar smokes an elaborate water pipe.The whole atmosphere of the story is so profoundly disjointed from reality—surely drugs must have hadan influence? After all this was the era of legal opium use.32 “When the men on the chessboard get up / And tell you where to go / And you’ve just hadsome kind of mushroom / And your mind is moving low / Go ask Alice, I think she'll know.” The Matrixprovides a film reference point. “You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed andbelieve whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show youhow deep the rabbit hole goes.”But the experts are usually skeptical. 33 “The notion that the surreal aspects of the text are theconsequence of drug-fuelled dreams resonates with a culture, particularly perhaps in the 60s, 70s and 80swhen LSD was widely-circulated and even now where recreational drugs are commonplace,” says Dr.Heather Worthington, Children's Literature lecturer at Cardiff University.“It is the deviant aspects that continue to fascinate because the text is unusual, innovative, and hardto grasp, so turning to the author offers simplicity and excitement simultaneously.” 34 In a recentissue of Prospect magazine, Richard Jenkyns, professor of the classical tradition at Oxford University,called Alice in Wonderland “probably the most purely child-centered book ever written” and said that itsonly purpose “is to give pleasure.”Yet another narrative imposed on the book is the idea of grappling with a sense of self. 35“Perhaps that's why his book refers to ‘morality’ in jeering terms,” suggests Woolf. “And the actiontakes place either underground or in a world which is the opposite of our own.”~ 3 ~We can't ever truly know what Carroll intended or if he meant to write anything beyond anenchanting children's story. Ultimately, perhaps it's more enjoyable for the full intentions of the author toremain unknown during the reading of the book.
(A) The mushroom is “magic” only in the context of the story. And the caterpillar is merely smokingtobacco through a hookah.
(B) Since the 1960s there has been a trend for readers to identify an underlying drug theme in the book.
(C) Carroll wasn’t thought to have been a recreational user of opium or laudanum, and the referencesmay say more about the people making them than the author.
(D) Jefferson Airplane's 1967 psychedelic anthem White Rabbit runs with the drug theme.
(E) To many modern minds, a man who regularly formed friendships with young girls is inherentlysuspicious. (AB) Carroll led a very controlled existence, struggling with self-identity, a recurring theme in the bookas Alice regularly expresses uncertainty about who she is after she enters Wonderland.
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參考答案

答案：B
難度：適中0.454545
統計：A(2),B(5),C(0),D(0),E(3)

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