被GWD-3-37绕的有点晕，请教中！

Historians who study European

         women of the Renaissance try to mea-

         sure “independence,” “options,” and

Line other indicators of the degree to which

  (5)          the expression of women’s individuality

was either permitted or suppressed.

Influenced by Western individualism,

these historians define a peculiar form

of personhood:  an innately bounded

(10)         unit, autonomous and standing apart

from both nature and society.  An

anthropologist, however, would contend

that a person can be conceived in ways

other than as an “individual.”  In many

(15)         societies a person’s identity is not

intrinsically unique and self-contained

but instead is defined within a complex

web of social relationships.

      In her study of the fifteenth-century

(20)         Florentine widow Alessandra Strozzi, a

historian who specializes in European

women of the Renaissance attributes

individual intention and authorship of

         actions to her subject.  This historian

(25)         assumes that Alessandra had goals

and interests different from those of her

sons, yet much of the historian’s own

research reveals that Alessandra

acted primarily as a champion of her

(30)         sons’ interests, taking their goals as

her own.  Thus Alessandra conforms

more closely to the anthropologist’s

         notion that personal motivation is

embedded in a social context. Indeed,

(35)         one could argue that Alessandra did

         not distinguish her personhood from

that of her sons.  In Renaissance

Europe the boundaries of the con-

ceptual self were not always firm

(40)         and closed and did not necessarily

coincide with the boundaries of

the bodily self.

Q37:         

In the first paragraph, the author of the passage mentions a contention that would be made by an anthropologist most likely in order to B

1. present a theory that will be undermined in the discussion of a historian’s study later in the passage


2. offer a perspective on the concept of personhood that can usefully be applied to     the study of women in Renaissance Europe
   



3. undermine the view that the individuality of European women of the Renaissance was largely suppressed
   



4. argue that anthropologists have applied the Western concept of individualism in their research
   



5. lay the groundwork for the conclusion that Alessandra’s is a unique case among European women of the Renaissance whose lives have been studied by historians

这题本人作起来实在是痛苦，看哪个答案也不像，只有采用POE；

我对B选项中的offer a perspective on the concept of personhood that有点不明白，如果该句话说的是： a person can be conceived in ways other than as an “individual.”   那么我就明白了，但从句意思上理解应该不是吧？

请教各位大n；多谢

其实我看这文的时候 没有管这个personhood 和 other than as an “individual  有舍么差别

但是 看完全文我就知道 这个concept 跟第二段的例子有很大关系 似乎被应用到上面去了 所以就选了B

而其他选项 我是用排除法排除

嗯，有道理，我对整体结构是很清楚的，只是可能太注重细节词的含义了！

多谢！

是的，关键是弄清楚原文主要研究对象之间的关系，及作者的态度，就是做题的主要依据了。正在体会和加强中。