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請依下文回答第 21 題至第 25 題When contemporary women writers write about mother-daughter relationships, they often put anemphasis on forging a connection between them. In their writing, even though mothers and daughters dohave ambivalence toward each other, they are often capable of resolving this problem and finally recognizingtheir bond as mothers and daughters. Yet, when it comes to writing about mother-son relationships, itbecomes a completely different story. Most women writers stress the alienation between mothers and sonsowing to the fact that they are of different gender. Therefore, when women writers write about theirexperiences of raising sons, they usually find themselves crossing over into a different territory. Feelings ofapprehension and distress arise when mothers discover to their astonishment that their sons have become atotal stranger to them especially when the sons have stepped into adulthood. In addition, since mothers areconstrained by the society at large to avoid being too close to their sons in fear that they might smother theirsons, contemporary women writers have depicted mostly the separation between them but have also unveiledhow mothers come to terms with this separation from their sons. Take the two contemporary novels, Margaret Forster’s Mothers’ Boys and Rosellen Brown’s Before andAfter, as examples. With a common theme on mother-son relationships, both novels portray a similarincident of a son who is suspected of committing a murder and how this unexpected event has profoundlyharmed the mother-son relationships. Coincidently, both novels have an identical scene with a mother-sonencounter in a juvenile prison. In this confrontation between mothers and sons, mothers have to theirbewilderment come to realize that their sons have become unknown to them. And as these mother-sonnarratives continue to develop, the mothers and sons in these novels finally separate from each other. Theonly difference between these novels is their contrast in treating the mother-son relationship. Forster presentsthe mother as the one who takes up her traditional role by accepting passively this separation from son andwaiting patiently until the son returns one day whereas Brown describes a mother who exercises her agencyand power to deal with her son’s act of crime. Later, she not only fulfills her social responsibility as a motherbut also decides her way of handling the mother-son separation. Despite that the two texts illustrate twoconflicting ways of reading and writing mother-son relationships, they also inform us that there exists apowerful reading and writing against the grain.
21 Which field of study is most closely related to this passage?
(A) Human Resources.
(B) Social Work.
(C) Human Rights.
(D) Women’s Studies.

參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.610526
統計：A(9),B(19),C(7),D(58),E(0)

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