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III. Discourse (每題 2 分,共 10 分)
Scottish writings have long been impacted by the notion of duality or the “divided self”:the national psyche as a kind of split personality. 14._______ It is related tobeing this type of nation, and maintaining your identity while also submerging it in someoneelse’s.15._______ You can see it reflected in works such as Robert LouisStevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), where an esteemed doctor,Jekyll, is transformed into an evil creature. In this novella, Jekyll is able to make this“duplicity” from a metaphor into a fact, splitting his self into two so that one part can indulgeand the other repress. 16. _______ G. Gregory Smith labelled the condition the “Caledonian antisyzygy” in 1919.
17._______ It goes beyond politics and encompasses divisions such as thosebetween Protestant and Catholic. RD Laing, the Scottish psychiatrist of the 1960s, turned theidea into a Scottish gift to the world: a global malady of alienation between the inner and outerselves.
Whatever the truth of this, there are fears that ill-feeling among Scots will never vanish.18._______ Back then, some Scottish parliament members were accused ofbeing bribed into giving up their nationhood. Today, unionists accuse the so-called “cybernats”—nationalists who use the internet to attack those who disagree with them—of reachingnew levels of abuse.
Would any vote for independence heal the wound of Scotland’s divided self? Examiningthe depth of the enmities from the past to the present, I put a question mark on that.
(A) This kind of confrontation can be traced back to the Acts of Union in 1707.
(B) His term refers to the notion that a clash of extremes lies at the heart of the national mind.
(C) This concept has a lot to do with Scotland being a nation that is not a “proper” nation.
(D) This duplicity can metaphorically represent the writer’s Scottish consciousness and Englishidentity.
(E) The bitter division on display during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaignbrought this notion freshly to mind.
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Scottish writings have long been impacted by the notion of duality or the “divided self”: the national psyche as a kind of split personality. 14._______ It is related to being this type of nation, and maintaining your identity while also submerging it in someone else’s.(C) This concept has a lot to do with Scotland being a nation that is not a “proper” nation.蘇格蘭的著作長期以來一直受到二元性或“分裂的自我”概念的影響:國民心理是一種分裂的人格。 這個概念與蘇格蘭是一個不是“適當”國家的國家有很大關係。 這與成為這樣的國家/地區有關,在保持您的身份的同時又將其浸入他人的身份中。