GWD-13-17

Q16 to Q19:

      In 1675, Louis XIV

       established the Parisian

       seamstresses’ guild, the first

Line       independent all-female guild

  (5)      created in over 200 years.

Guild members could make

and sell women’s and chil-

dren’s clothing, but were

prohibited from producing

(10)      men’s clothing or dresses

for court women.  Tailors

resented the ascension of

seamstresses to guild status;

seamstresses, meanwhile,

(15)      were impatient with the

remaining restrictions on

their right to clothe women.

      The conflict between

the guilds was not purely

(20)      economic, however.  A 1675

       police report indicated that

       since so many seamstresses

were already working illegally,

the tailors were unlikely to

(25)      suffer additional economic

damage because of the

seamstresses’ incorporation.

Moreover, guild membership

held very different meanings

(30)      for tailors and seamstresses.

To the tailors, their status as

guild members overlapped

       with their role as heads of

household, and entitled them

(35)    to employ as seamstresses

female family members who

did not marry outside the trade.

The seamstresses, however,

      viewed guild membership as

(40)     a mark of independence from

the patriarchal family.  Their

guild was composed not of

family units but of individual

women who enjoyed unusual

(45)      legal and economic privileges.

       At the conflict’s center was

the issue of whether tailors’

female relatives should be

identified as family members

(50)      protected by the tailors’ guild

or as individuals under the

jurisdiction of the seam-

stresses’ guild.

Q17:

According to the passage, one source of dissatisfaction for Parisian seamstresses after the establishment of the seamstresses’ guild was that

1. seamstresses were not allowed to make and sell clothing for all women
   

2. tailors continued to have the exclusive legal right to clothe men
   

3. seamstresses who were relatives of tailors were prevented from becoming members of the seamstresses’ guild
   

4. rivalry between individual seamstresses increased, thus hindering their ability to compete with the tailors for business
   

5. seamstresses were not allowed to accept male tailors as members of the guild

参考答案为A，我选B.

参考答案为A，我选B.

主要是涉及到对：

对“seamstresses,meanwhile, were impatient with the remaining restrictions on their right to clothe women.”的理解问题：是对被限定于只能给women做衣服还是对被限定为不能为全部women做衣服感到impatient?

文中提到：

Guild members could make

and sell women’s and chil-

dren’s clothing, but were

prohibited from producing

(10)      men’s clothing or dresses

for court women.

我的理解是，court women应该占的比例很少，所以，seamstresses更应该是对被限定为不能给men做衣服而感到impatient。

请NN指点。

Guild members could make

and sell women’s and chil-

dren’s clothing, but were

prohibited from producing

(10)      men’s clothing or dresses

for court women.

我的理解是，court women应该占的比例很少，所以，seamstresses更应该是对被限定为不能给men做衣服而感到impatient。

请NN指点。

主要是涉及到对：

对“seamstresses,meanwhile, were impatient with the remaining restrictions on their right to clothe women.”的理解问题：是对被限定于只能给women做衣服还是对被限定为不能为全部women做衣服感到impatient?

文中提到：

Guild members could make

and sell women’s and chil-

dren’s clothing, but were

prohibited from producing

(10)      men’s clothing or dresses

for court women.

我的理解是，court women应该占的比例很少，所以，seamstresses更应该是对被限定为不能给men做衣服而感到impatient。

请NN指点。

Guild members could make

and sell women’s and chil-

dren’s clothing, but were

prohibited from producing

(10)      men’s clothing or dresses

for court women.

我的理解是，court women应该占的比例很少，所以，seamstresses更应该是对被限定为不能给men做衣服而感到impatient。

请NN指点。

be restricted on --- 对...有限制

be restricted to --- 仅限制于做...

were impatient with the remaining restrictions on their right to clothe women是指对做妇女的衣服有限制(你能做女人的衣服, 但不是所有的, 比如说宫廷贵妇的衣服你就不能做)

文中的impatient与问题中的dissatification对应, 偶选A.

court women比例少不少, 与答题不相关且文中未提到.

我还是倾向于选b.

请大家讨论一下。

17 物品觉得是A

另外，19我觉得有异议

Q19:B A

The author mentions the seamstresses’ view of guild membership as a “mark of independence from the patriarchal family” (lines 40-41) primarily in order to

1. emphasize that the establishment of the seamstresses’ guild had implications that were not solely economic
2. illustrate the conflict that existed between tailors and their female family members over membership in the tailors’ guild
3. imply that the establishment of the seamstresses’ guild ushered in a period of increased economic and social freedom for women in France
4. provide an explanation for the dramatic increase in the number of women working as seamstresses after 1675
5. indicate that members of the seamstresses’ guild were financially more successful than were tailors’ female relatives protected by the tailors’ guild

答案A，我选B

这个好象应该是common sense吧，女裁缝不许做，要是男裁缝也不许做的话，男人都穿什么呀？：）况且，这里明显表达的意思是：以前是所有衣服都归男裁缝做，现在女裁缝可以做女人和孩子的衣服了。

17题我还是觉得选B更好，当然主要还是在于对这句话的理解：were impatient with the remaining restrictions on their right to clothe women.我觉得这句话的意思是：对于仍然限制她们只许做女人的衣服表示不耐烦。

那一段就是围绕conflict的原因，作者提出不仅是economic  factor导致conflict。题中所引的那段话就是在讲到一个factor时作为阐释出现的，所以B选项对。A选项错在不是the establishment of the seamstresses’ guild had implications that were not solely economic，而是conflict 的reason 不仅是economic。

19题好混淆，

A emphasize that the establishment of the seamstresses’ guild had implications that were not solely economic

A 看上去像正确答案，因为你不能说它是错的， 但是，这这范围扩得太大了，原文是The conflict between the guilds was not purely  economic,

B illustrate the conflict that existed between tailors and their female family members over membership in the tailors’ guild

关键是后面的 conflict.. over membership in the tailors' guild 总结得对不对

At the conflict’s center was

the issue of whether tailors’

female relatives should be

identified as family members

(50)      protected by the tailors’ guild

or as individuals under the

jurisdiction of the seam-

stresses’ guild.

感觉用membership 来概括好像不太贴切。