[求助]gwd 13-18

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.

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?

They were instrumental in convincing Louis XIV to establish the seamstresses’ guild.

They were rarely allowed to assist master tailors in the production of men’s clothing.

They were considered by some tailors to be a threat to the tailors’ monopoly.

They did not enjoy the same economic and legal privileges that members of the seamstresses’ guild enjoyed.

They felt their status as working women gave them a certain degree of independence from the patriarchal family.

Answer: d 我选的是E,不知错在哪里, 那位nn指点一下.

line41-45：Their guild was composed （not of family units but） of individual women who enjoyed unusual  legal and economic privileges. 你把括号里的略掉，就是答案D。就是说seamstress guild 只包含独立的semstresses。

seamstresses有2种，一种是在guild里的，一种是在tailor的family里同时被tailor雇用的。D里enjoy的意思是“享有”。

thanks volker, 明白这个句子令我对全文茅塞顿开

顶一下!

You are welcome. Glad to know you got the same conclusion.

The most important thing is that quickly understanding every sentence of an article is the key to getting the right answer.  You know the meaning of each sentence, you know the sense of the complete article.

我觉得楼上的理解是错的！Their guild was composed not of family units but of individual women who enjoyed unusual  legal and economic privileges. 红字部分是对应 于To the tailors, their status as guild members overlapped with their role as heads of household,

就是说tailor 的行会以家庭为单位，seamstresses的行会以个人为单位。

18题还是不知道选D还是E，请牛牛指点！

我也是选E,E在原文可以找到定位点而D没有.MM的分析是对的.这篇RC的最后两题其实都是围绕"两个guild"的问题,原文最后一句明确总结了这"两个guild"的关系.