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第 68 至 71 題為題組 Always on the Side of the Egg by Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) Between a high solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the sideof the egg. Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with theegg. Someone else will have to decide what is right and what is wrong; perhaps time or historywill decide. If there were a novelist who, for whatever reason, wrote works standing with thewall, of what value would such works be? What is the meaning of this metaphor? In some cases, it is all too simple and clear.Bombers and tanks and rockets and white phosphorus shells are that high solid wall. The eggsare the unarmed civilians who are crushed and burned and shot by them. This is one meaningof the metaphor This is not all, though. It carries a deeper meaning. Think of it this way. Each of us is,more or less, an egg. Each of us is a unique soul enclosed in a fragile shell. And each of us, to agreater or lesser degree, is confronting a high solid wall. The wall has a name: it is TheSystem. My father passed away last year at the age of ninety. When he was in graduate school inKyoto, he was drafted into the army and sent to fight in China. As a child born after the war, Iused to see him every morning before breakfast offering up long, deeply-felt prayers at thesmall Buddhist altar in our house, praying for the people who had died in the battlefield, bothally and enemy alike. Staring at his back, I seemed to feel the shadow of death hoveringaround him I have only one thing I hope to convey to you today. We are all human beings, individualstranscending nationality and race and religion, and we are all fragile eggs faced with a solidwall called The System. To all appearances, we have no hope of winning. The wall is too high,too strong–and too cold. If we have any hope of victory at all, it will have to come from ourbelieving in the utter uniqueness of our own and others’ souls and from our believing in thewarmth we gain by joining souls together.
【題組】68. The title “Always on the Side of the Egg” can be best interpreted as ______.
(A) having a tendency to do the exact opposite of what is forbidden.
(B) having sympathy toward the frail and the vulnerable.
(C) making up stories appearing to be true.
(D) boycotting the government’s domestic policy.
參考答案
答案：B
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)