gwd11-36

Q35 to Q37:

      Recent feminist scholarship con-

       cerning the United States in the 1920’s

       challenges earlier interpretations that

Line       assessed the twenties in terms of the

  (5)      unkept “promises” of the women’s

suffrage movement.  This new scholar-

ship disputes the long-held view that

because a women’s voting bloc did not

materialize after women gained the right

(10)      to vote in 1920, suffrage failed to

produce long-term political gains for

women.  These feminist scholars also

challenge the old view that pronounced

suffrage a failure for not delivering on

(15)      the promise that the women’s vote

would bring about moral, corruption-

free governance.  Asked whether

women’s suffrage was a failure, these

scholars cite the words of turn-of-the-

(20)      century social reformer Jane Addams,

       “Why don’t you ask if suffrage in

       general is failing?”

      In some ways, however, these

scholars still present the 1920’s as a

(25)      period of decline.  After suffrage, they

argue, the feminist movement lost its

cohesiveness, and gender conscious-

ness waned.  After the mid-1920’s, few

successes could be claimed by fem-

(30)      inist reformers: little could be seen in

the way of legislative victories.

      During this decade, however, there

       was intense activism aimed at achiev-

ing increased autonomy for women,

(35)    broadening the spheres within which

they lived their daily lives.  Women’s

organizations worked to establish

opportunities for women: they strove to

      secure for women the full entitlements

(40)     of citizenship, including the right to hold

office and the right to serve on juries.

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Q36:

It can be inferred that the author of the passage disagrees with the “new scholarship” mentioned in lines 6-7 regarding the

想請教line 5的“promises”

有沒有特別用意?作者有何想法

因為這個答案似乎影響11-37題的答案

GWD-11-Q37:

The purpose of the second paragraph (lines 23-31) of the passage is to

1. suggest a reason why suffragist “promises” were not kept

2. contrast suffragist “promises” with the reality of the 1920’s

3. deplore the lack of successful feminist reform in 1920’s

4. explain a view held by feminist scholars

5. answer the question asked by Jane Addams

Answer:

顶,

请教一下37题,contrast在哪里体现?

36题不明白D怎么不对,在30行不是有对应吗?

我明白了。

第一段赞扬

第二段小转，即使是赞扬的人也承认有decline

第三段作者观点，转折decline，赞扬赞扬。

从全文理解来看，就是该选C。D是scholar自己提出来的evidence，支持自己decline的观点。作者肖反 decline，但没具体到证据上。

好像要整篇看完才能选