依下文回答第 41 題至第 45 題
Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles is a graded reader of made-up Latin stories, which the author Francis Ritchie wrote in
order to give students additional practice before they began reading Julius Caesar’s Gallic War. The text includes the
myths of Perseus, Heracles, Jason and the Argonauts, and Ulysses; and the entire volume is divided into 100 sections
of Latin, which are roughly a paragraph in length. Although Ritchie assumes that readers know all five declensions,
pronouns, and active and passive verbs from the beginning of the Perseus readings, he does not introduce the
subjunctive mood until the middle of the Heracles selections or indirect discourse and ablative absolutes until Jason
and the Argonauts. Ritchie’s purpose is to provide readers with an opportunity to master simple Latin grammar and
morphology before they encounter more complex constructions in the later stories, and he does so while presenting
students with an informative and thoroughly engaging storyline.
This Latin text was first published by Ritchie in 1884 in a volume called Fabulae Faciles: A First Latin Reader.
In 1903, John Kirtland produced a revised edition of the book under the title Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles: A First Latin
Reader. Kirtland modified Ritchie’s Latin text, added grammatical notes, and eliminated a section of drill exercises
found in the original volume. Kirtland’s book remained the standard edition until 1991, when another revised volume
was prepared by Gilbert Lawall, Stanley Iverson, and Allan Wooley, entitled Fabulae Graecae: A Revised Edition of
Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles. While the first two books are out of copyright and can be downloaded for free, the Fabulae
Graecae remains available in paperback. The aim of this current edition(2012) is to make Ritchie’s myths even more
accessible to intermediate-level Latin readers.
【題組】43 Which of the following statements about Fabulae Faciles is NOT true?
(A) It is a graded Latin reader. (B) It was first published in the nineteenth century.
(C) It consists of roughly 100 paragraphs. (D) It is intended be read after Caesar's Gallic War.
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