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三、閱讀測驗：10 % (每題 2 分)       Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Satire rarely offers originalideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies. What they do is look atfamiliar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected. Satire jars us out ofcomplacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false. Don Quixote makeschivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocatingcannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure sciencebefore Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift. It was not the originality of the idea that made these satirespopular. It was the manner of expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read becausethey are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulatingand refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions. With spontaneousirreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiominstead of abstract platitude.      Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent reminder thatthey live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into anawareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, andread in popular media is sanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true. Life resembles, to only a slight degree, the popularimage of it. Soldiers rarely hold the ideals that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens devote their lives to unselfishservice of humanity. Intelligent people know these things but tend to forget them when they do not hear them expressed.
1. According to the passage, there is a need for satire because people need to be _____.
(A) informed about new scientific developments
(B) told how they can be of service to their communities
(C) reminded that popular ideas are often inaccurate
(D) exposed to original philosophies when they are formulated

參考答案

答案：C
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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