[求助]GWD 27-25

查了一下,没有人问过,寒心啊,别人都感觉容易,我却....

Q 23 to Q 26:

When the history of women

began to receive focused attention

in the 1970’, Eleanor Roosevelt

Line was one of a handful of female

 (5) Americans who were well known

to both historians and the general

public. Despite the evidence that

she had been important in social-

reform circles before her husband

(10) was elected President and that

she continued to advocate differ-

ent causes than he did, she held

a place in the public imagination

largely because she was the wife

(15) of a particularly influential Presi-

dent. Her own activities were

seen as preparing the way for her

husband’s election or as a com-

plement to his programs. Even

(20) Joseph Lash’s two volumes of

Sympathetic biography, Eleanor and

Franklin (1971) and Eleanor: The

Years Alone (1972), reflected this

assumption.

(25)          Lash’s biography revealed a

Complicated woman who sought

Through political activity both to

flee inner misery and to promote

causes in which she passionately

(30) believed. However, she still

appeared to be an idiosyncratic

figure, somehow self-generated

not amenable to any generalized

explanation. She emerged from

(35) the biography as a mother to the

entire nation, or as a busybody.

but hardly as a social type, a

figure comprehensible in terms

of broader social developments.

(40)             But more recent work on the

feminism of the post-suffrage

years (following 1920) allows us

to see Roosevelt in a different

light and to bring her life into a

(45) more richly detailed context. Lois

Scharf’s Eleanor Roosevelt, written

In 1987, depicts a generation of

Privileged women, born in the late

Nineteenth century and maturing

(50) in the twentieth, who made the

transition from old patterns of

female association to new ones.

Their views and their lives were full

Of contradictions. They maintained

(55) female social networks but began

to integrate women into mainstream

politics; they demanded equal

treatment but also argued that

women’s maternal responsibilities

(60) made them both wards and repre-

sentatives of the public interest.

Thanks to Scharf and others,

Roosevelt’s activities—for exam-

ple, her support both for labor laws

(65) protecting women and for appoint-

ments of women to high public

office—have become intelligible in

terms of this social context rather

than as the idiosyncratic career of

a famous man’s wife.

Which of the following studies would proceed in a

way most similar to the way in which, according to

the passage. Scharf’s book interprets Eleanor

Roosevelt’s career?

A.     An exploration of the activities of a wealthy

social reformer in terms of the ideals held

by the reformer

B.     A history of the leaders of a political party

which explained how the conflicting aims

of its individual leaders thwarted and

diverted the activities of each leader

C.     An account of the legislative career of a con-

servative senator which showed his goals to

have been derived from a national conser-

vative movement of which the senator was

a part

D.     A biography of a famous athlete which

explained her high level of motivation in terms

of the kind of family in which she grew up

E.      A history of the individuals who led the move-

ment to end slavery in the United States which

attributed the movement’s success to the

efforts of those exceptional individuals

给出参考答案是D,能说说D原文哪里有体现吗? 一个著名的运动员根据家庭成长背景来解释她的her high level of motivation,

我对25题也是疑问颇多。又看了一遍那个描述scharf怎么纪录那姐姐的事迹。他说了那个姐姐生长的一个大环境，以及在这个环境下的妇女所扮演的角色；这些角色里面有一些矛盾的方面；而这些角色都是其所处的环境所决定的。也就是说，她们的目的是有环境决定的，而她们自己是这个环境的一部分。如果这么看，那不就是C。。。 看D地描写，我们会expect这样的纪录，一个人，不屈不挠地追求她的理想，因为它的家庭支持他的理想并且给与她支持。所以我觉得不合适。因为scharf地描写里面没有环境对罗斯福老婆的支持或者不支持。 大家提提意见

支持C，文章的定位挺明显的

Thanks to Scharf and others,

Roosevelt’s activities—for exam-

ple, her support both for labor laws

(65) protecting women and for appoint-

ments of women to high public

office—have become intelligible in

terms of this
                        social context
                rather

than as the idiosyncratic career of

a famous man’s wife.

而D是将家庭环境对个人奋斗动机的影响。

嗯,大致明白了,你划线的部分差不多就是原文的诉求点.

太打击我了,ls说这个定位特明显,我怎么就看许久就没有明白呢?唉,看来还是功底不够.

这题到底是d还是c呢，我还晕

GWD阅读复习中。

一向认为这种文章框架结构对比的是最高级的题目。

这道题认为选C，因为S写作的特点是结合了时代背景，四个选项中C是唯一讨论到时代背景的。

Q25.问题问的是“Scharf’s book interprets Eleanor Roosevelt’s career”，所以应该定位到第二段：

However, she still

appeared to be an idiosyncratic

figure, somehow self-generated

not amenable to any generalized

explanation. She emerged from

(35) the biography as a mother to the

entire nation, or as a busybody.

but hardly as a social type, a

figure comprehensible in terms

of broader social developments

然后看题目

explained her high level of motivation in terms

of the kind of family in which she grew up （说明是self－generated，选）

E.      A history of the individuals who led the move-

ment to end slavery in the United States which

attributed the movement’s success to the

efforts of those exceptional individuals （虽然是exceptional individuals，但是可以理解为partially generalised，所以不选）

Open to discuss

appeared to be an idiosyncratic

figure, somehow self-generated

not amenable to any generalized

explanation. She emerged from

(35) the biography as a mother to the

entire nation, or as a busybody.

but hardly as a social type, a

figure comprehensible in terms

of broader social developments

然后看题目

explained her high level of motivation in terms

of the kind of family in which she grew up （说明是self－generated，选）

E.      A history of the individuals who led the move-

ment to end slavery in the United States which

attributed the movement’s success to the

efforts of those exceptional individuals （虽然是exceptional individuals，但是可以理解为partially generalised，所以不选）

Open to discuss