gwd 13 Q16-19

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

给出的a，我选B

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Q18:

It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following was true of seamstresses employed by relatives who were members of the tailors’ guild?

1. They were instrumental in convincing Louis XIV to establish the seamstresses’ guild.
2. They were rarely allowed to assist master tailors in the production of men’s clothing.
3. They were considered by some tailors to be a threat to the tailors’ monopoly.
4. They did not enjoy the same economic and legal privileges that members of the seamstresses’ guild enjoyed.
5. They felt their status as working women gave them a certain degree of independence from the patriarchal family.

给出的D，我选E

Answer:

谢。。。。。。。。

18，D

E错在：

The seamstresses, however,

      viewed guild membership as

(40)     a mark of independence from

the patriarchal family.

17: B

18: D

关于17题大家在讨论一下啊，我怎么觉得答案有些问题；

Guild members could make and sell women’s and children’s clothing, but were prohibited from producing men’s clothing or dresses for court women.--这里的guild指的是seamstress 还是tailor, 如果是seamstress的话，和第一段的最后一句话矛盾seamstresses, meanwhile, were impatient with the remaining restrictions on their right to clothe women。

--这里的guild如果指的是tailor的话，那么这道题就没有正确答案了，B也不是正确的了。

大家说呢？

17题选B!!!????我认为选A啊,

seamstresses, meanwhile,

 (15)      were impatient with the

remaining restrictions on

their right to clothe women.

明显的是A的同义变换嘛

大家觉得呢?

18 题还是搞不清楚！

seamstresses 不就自动是member of seam-stresses’ guild 了吗？ 那 seamstresses employed by relatives who were members of the tailors’ guild, 也还是member of seam-stresses’ guild 呀。