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Q26
According to the passage, compared with women
in eighteenth-century
A. more likely to rely on credit and go into debt
B. more likely to pursue their families’ debtors
C. more likely to participate in economic trans-
actions outside their own communities
D. less likely to perform economic services
in their own communities.
E. less likely to participate in civil cases that
were not debt-related.
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Q27
The passage suggests that which of the following
best compares the economic concerns of women
with those of men toward the close of the eighteenth
Century in colonial
(A) Both men and women had more economic
responsibilities at the end of the century
than they had had at the beginning of the
century.
(B) Women’s economic activities had become
less varied by the end of the century;
men’s economic activities had become
more varied.
(C) Women’s economic activities at the end of
the century were similar to their activities
at the beginning; men’s economic activities
changed considerably.
(D) Women’s economic concerns at the end of
the century were primarily familial; men’s
economic concerns were primarily political.
(E) Women’s economic concerns at the end of
the century were primarily personal; men’s
economic needs were primarily familial.
答案是CCB，但是我更倾向于ACC，请大家讨论。
作者: jinni 时间: 2006-4-14 23:49
顶
作者: ritta 时间: 2006-4-15 21:57
ACC
作者: maxtan 时间: 2006-5-23 13:09
我同意
顶
作者: 马尔代夫 时间: 2006-6-4 23:35
UP
作者: 二狼神 时间: 2006-6-5 15:53
我也是ACC.这RC做的人不多呀.
作者: superacumen 时间: 2006-6-7 14:30
我也同意ACC 
作者: Iawfy 时间: 2006-6-8 00:13
The answers on the answer key are correct.
25 is C because the author is trying to think of a reason why this is true, which is why he is evaluating his conclusion.
26 is C
27 is B because that is what the whole passage says. It says that women focused more on community instead of expanding. Instead of stating that clearly, they used the word varied. Men became more varied and women became less varied. (At the same time, (35) women’s networks of credit and debt remained primarily local and personal.)
作者: 二狼神 时间: 2006-6-8 09:39
The answers on the answer key are correct.
25 is C because the author is trying to think of a reason why this is true, which is why he is evaluating his conclusion.
26 is C
27 is B because that is what the whole passage says. It says that women focused more on community instead of expanding. Instead of stating that clearly, they used the word varied. Men became more varied and women became less varied. (At the same time, (35) women’s networks of credit and debt remained primarily local and personal.)
"remained.." means "more on .. instead of.. "?I think "remained" means not change,but similarity.
作者: Iawfy 时间: 2006-6-9 03:21
There isn't really a conclusion yet, because it is about women's participation in this society...but the author would write a conclusion. The answer is not A because it isn't giving an opinion, it uese statistic--Dayton contends that" however, as Cornelia Hughes Dayton notes in Women before the Bar: Gender, Low, and Society in Connectuit, 1639-1789, these statistics are somewhat deceptive..."
Remained means to continue in the same state or condition.
I hope this is going to help^^
作者: 二狼神 时间: 2006-6-9 11:23
The answer is not A because it isn't giving an opinion, it uese statistic--Dayton contends that" however, as Cornelia Hughes Dayton notes in Women before the Bar: Gender, Low, and Society in Connectuit, 1639-1789, these statistics are somewhat deceptive..."
Remained means to continue in the same state or condition.
作者: Iawfy 时间: 2006-6-13 04:30
A phenomenon is an occurrence, circumstance, or fact that is perceptible by the senses. They are not asking what the author thinks about it. The passage is giving the author's opinion which is the conclusion and then the author is evaluating it. For instance, we know that more men are involved in the legal world than women. The author is giving reasons to why that is the case. Therefore the opinion/ conclusion is the fact that there are more men than women. The whole passage is about why that is reason.
As for 27, the question is what best compares the situation between men and women. What happend is that the field of finance became larger and the women did not change to adapt to the field of finance. The women were happy with what they had. So, it is B because varied means, changed. The men changed, but the women didn't change.
作者: 二狼神 时间: 2006-6-13 08:16
A phenomenon is an occurrence, circumstance, or fact that is perceptible by the senses. They are not asking what the author thinks about it. The passage is giving the author's opinion which is the conclusion and then the author is evaluating it. For instance, we know that more men are involved in the legal world than women. The author is giving reasons to why that is the case. Therefore the opinion/ conclusion is the fact that there are more men than women. The whole passage is about why that is reason.
As for 27, the question is what best compares the situation between men and women. What happend is that the field of finance became larger and the women did not change to adapt to the field of finance. The women were happy with what they had. So, it is B because varied means, changed. The men changed, but the women didn't change.
the century were similar to their activities
at the beginning; men’s economic activities
changed considerably.
作者: Iawfy 时间: 2006-6-13 23:38
add my msn: iamwfy@hotmail.com , and we will talk about it^^
作者: 二狼神 时间: 2006-6-14 07:26
Thanks for you help!Sorry I do not have a MSN.
作者: Iawfy 时间: 2006-6-15 14:32
okey~ let's put these in this way!
Regardless of the passage, think about the difference between the editorials/opinion section in the newspaper and the regular articles for a second. In the opinion section(also called the editorials), people make arguments. They make a specific claim or statement, and try to use evidence to back it up. But a normal article in the newspaper is more objective. It makes more observations than judgements. It avoids having too much bias or political influence. So in this GMAT question, was the author making an argument, or was the excerpt more objective? btw, the word "evaluating" here is more about reviewing and examining.
For Q 27, it's a poorly written question. B and C are similar. I'm thinking about that through out the time, women's economic activities did change, but not as dramatic as mes'. That's how I see it, welcome to argue with me^^
作者: vanessav 时间: 2006-6-28 22:29
but pls, banzhu, I did not find the point that
(A) Women’s economic activities had become
less varied
similar does not mean less varied.
and in the passage, the author points out that women continued to............
作者: hwhhs 时间: 2006-7-4 15:40
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作者: ly365 时间: 2006-7-14 17:01
ding
作者: ly365 时间: 2006-7-14 17:10
i think the answers are A,C, and B respectively. open to discuss.
作者: SBGMAC 时间: 2006-8-16 15:57
A,C,C
作者: YAHA_JJ 时间: 2006-9-8 10:22
For Q27, I agree with the answer B
Women’s economic activities had become less varied by the end of the century; men’s economic activities had become more varied.
Firstly, because the passage states that,
in fact, both the absolute numbers and (15) the percentage of adult women participating in civil cases grew steadily throughout the eighteenth century
The part which is highlight means “the women’s economic activities did vary, but less dramatically compared with those of men.”
Secondly, from L42 of the passage, it states that women remained for the most part outside the new economic and legal culture of the eighteenth century.
Again, it proves that although women’s economic activities remained the same for the most part, they had varied a little.
Open to discussion!
作者: giraffe123456 时间: 2006-9-17 19:57
my ans. A,C,B
open to discussion....
作者: captain_ma 时间: 2006-10-6 20:25
acc
作者: diamondivy 时间: 2006-10-13 17:15
ACB In this article, I think no sentences indicate that men's activities changed. I think what they did was more various was due to the ability of creditors to buy and sell prom-issory notes.In addition, men's activities became increasingly far-flung; therefore, we still can not find any evidence that can prove men's activities changed. Open to discuss. Thank you.
作者: xunzhang 时间: 2006-10-17 03:17
For those who selected B for question 27, I want to ask where in the passages shows that women's economic activities had become less varied?
作者: dcatcher 时间: 2006-10-20 07:52
27我选C,争论的关键在于对less varied的理解和对比较对象的误解.
我的理解B是说the kinds of women's economic activities were fewer at the end of the century than they were before.但这是与原文相背的. 要注意到是两个不同时期的women's economic activities相比较,而不是women's economic activities和men's economic activities比.
作者: linda816 时间: 2006-10-24 02:03
A,C,C
作者: xiaowan 时间: 2006-10-24 09:44
26题的C是咋推出来的呀？？
作者: 期待蔚蓝 时间: 2006-11-1 21:21
26题的C是咋推出来的呀？？
作者: lxzjojo 时间: 2006-11-5 21:09
ding!
作者: lxzjojo 时间: 2006-11-5 21:21
26题的C是咋推出来的呀？？
偶用的排除法。
A. more likely to rely on credit and go into debt（文章中没有提到）
B. more likely to pursue their families’ debtors（文章中没有提到）
C. more likely to participate in economic trans-
actions outside their own communities
D. less likely to perform economic services
in their own communities.（显然是和文章中line37~40相反）
E. less likely to participate in civil cases that were not debt-related.(文章中没有提到)
C其实也能从文章中得到验证，注意highlight的部分，这说明了man的情况跟woman恰好是相反的，就是C的内容。 Dayton contends that, although still performing crucial economic services in their (40) communities—services that contributed to the commercialization of the colonial economy—women remained for the most part outside the new economic and legal culture of the eighteenth century.
Dayton contends that,
although still performing crucial
economic services in their
(40) communities—services that
contributed to the commercialization
of the colonial economy—women
remained for the most part outside
the new economic and legal culture
of the eighteenth century.
作者: chang2301 时间: 2006-11-22 20:24
關於26題我有一個不一樣的想法
請大家看看
文章一開始就說
In colonial
1670 and 1719, women participated
in one of every six civil cases, the
vast majority of which were debt-related
然後在說明事實上很多women跟men都有參加這類的civil cases
而且men的成長還更快:
both the absolute numbers and
(15) the percentage of adult women
participating in civil cases grew
steadily throughout the eighteenth
century, but the legal activity of
men also increased dramatically,
(20) and at a much faster rate
從這裡兩句可以看出,因為大部分的civil cases是debt-related的
而men參加這類活動又是逐年增多且很快的增加
所以可以infer: men were less likely to participate in civil cases that were not debt-related
在加上
題目是問說compared with women in eighteenth-century
作者: rio 时间: 2006-11-28 17:33
ACC
作者: yl1004 时间: 2006-12-2 11:35
我怎么也觉得是C呢？有谁能解释一下吗？？
作者: tracyldm1380 时间: 2006-12-2 13:32
我觉得应该是ACB
作者: wangwei8581 时间: 2007-1-5 13:15
ACC
25：A，文章的开头说了一个传统观点，然后however，引用了一个auther的观点，然后一直在阐述，并没有评价，尤其是文章37行说： 26：C，没什么争议 27：C，关键在于对varied的理解，是没有变化，还是变得不灵活，我倾向于后者，所以这样理解的话，不合原文，只有C说了女性的。。。和以前一样，男性的。。。发生了重大改变，具体是什么改变没有说而已。
26：C，没什么争议
27：C，关键在于对varied的理解，是没有变化，还是变得不灵活，我倾向于后者，所以这样理解的话，不合原文，只有C说了女性的。。。和以前一样，男性的。。。发生了重大改变，具体是什么改变没有说而已。
作者: wangwei8581 时间: 2007-1-6 10:52
ACC
25：A，文章的开头说了一个传统观点，然后however，引用了一个auther的观点，然后一直在阐述，并没有评价，尤其是文章37行说： 26：C，没什么争议 27：C，关键在于对varied的理解，是没有变化，还是变得不灵活，我倾向于后者，所以这样理解的话，不合原文，只有C说了女性的 。。。和以前一样，男性的。。。发生了重大改变，具体是什么改变没有说而已。
26：C，没什么争议
27：C，关键在于对varied的理解，是没有变化，还是变得不灵活，我倾向于后者，所以这样理解的话，不合原文，只有C说了女性的
。。。和以前一样，男性的。。。发生了重大改变，具体是什么改变没有说而已。
作者: sabrina07 时间: 2007-1-12 20:06
up,ACC
作者: harriethan 时间: 2007-1-29 14:51
CCC UP
作者: smoker 时间: 2007-3-4 03:08
CCC
GWD26-Q25-27
In colonial Connecticut between
1670 and 1719, women participated
in one of every six civil cases, the
Line vast majority of which were debt-
(5) related. Women’s
participation
dropped to one in ten cases after
1719, and to one in twenty by the
1770’s. however, as Cornelia
Hughes Dayton
notes in Women
(10) Before the
Bar: Gender, Law,
and Society in Connecticut,
1639-1789, these
statistics are
somewhat
deceptive: in fact, 提出观点，然后解释
both the absolute numbers and
(15) the
percentage of adult women
participating in civil cases grew
steadily
throughout the eighteenth
century, but the legal activity of
men also increased dramatically,
(20) and at a much faster rate. Single,
married, and widowed women
continued to pursue their own and
their husbands’ debtors through
legal action much as they had
(25) done in the previous century,
but 和以前一样，并不是 少了
despite this continuity, their place
in the legal system shifted
dramatically. Men’s commercial
interests and credit networks
(30) became
increasingly far-flung,
owing in part to the ability of
creditors to buy and sell prom-
issory notes (legal promises to
pay debts). At the same time,
(35) women’s networks of
credit and
debt remained primarily local and
personal. Dayton contends that,
although still performing crucial
economic services in their
(40) communities—services
that
contributed to the commercialization
of the colonial economy—women
remained for the most part outside
the new economic and legal culture
of the eighteenth century.
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Q25
The passage is
primarily concerned with
A. reporting an author’s view of a phenomenon
B. disputing the reasons usually given for an
unexpected change
C.
evaluating the conclusions reached by an
author
D. assessing the impact of certain legal
decisions.
E.
defending a
controversial point of view
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Q27
The passage
suggests that which of the following
best compares the
economic concerns of women
with those of men
toward the close of the eighteenth
Century in
colonial Connecticut?
(A) Both men and women had more economic
responsibilities at the end of the century
than they had had at the beginning of the
century.
(B) Women’s economic activities had become
less varied by the end of the century;
men’s economic activities had become
more varied.
(C) Women’s economic activities at the end of
the century were similar to their activities
at the beginning; men’s economic activities
changed considerably.
(D) Women’s economic concerns at the end of
the
century were primarily familial; men’s
economic
concerns were primarily political.
(E) Women’s economic concerns at the end of
the century were primarily personal; men’s
economic needs were
primarily familial.
作者: 茵梦 时间: 2007-3-5 23:32
for Q25, I insist on A
for Q27, I chose C, but B seems to make sense too. Really confused...
作者: chenyudi 时间: 2007-3-19 16:33
开始也觉得27选B,后来看了下面两段文字还是决定选C
Single,married, and widowed women continued to pursue their own and their husbands’ debtors through legal action much 以及Men’s commercial interests and credit networks (30) became increasingly far-flung(广泛的),
as they had done in the previous century, 那就是说妇女的还是和上个世纪一样,没怎么大变化所以是less varied
Single,married, and widowed women continued to pursue their own and their husbands’ debtors through legal action much
as they had done in the previous century, 那就是说妇女的还是和上个世纪一样,没怎么大变化所以是less varied
以及Men’s commercial interests and credit networks (30) became increasingly far-flung(广泛的),
这CD的文字编辑器也太查了点吧,好难调,将就着看吧
作者: biggeo 时间: 2007-5-14 22:48
25 vote for A
Nowhere metioned the author's opinion on C.H.Dayton's work. So this article is just a report
作者: joejo9 时间: 2007-6-4 21:36
這道題還是沒有定論麽？
作者: colorful_na 时间: 2007-7-12 18:15
up
作者: woaicc 时间: 2007-7-13 04:33
偶觉得:
B中的VARIED是个歧义的单词
Varied:1)VARY的过去时态
2)多样化
可能在B中,这里的解释是第二种.因为如果是第一种解释,完全可以表达成:Women's activities varied less" 而不是"become less varied",也就是说 "become"表达的是变成某种状态.Webster 词典里对become的解释:to come to be... 关键在这个"be"了,表达一个状态而非动作.
从这个角度.B表达的意思是women的economic activities 多样化更少.而men的行为更多样化.文中并没有提到多样化.
so,从这个题,也不难看出GMAT中选项和文中词汇的同意转换颇具有迷惑性.
作者: woaicc 时间: 2007-7-13 04:37
而且已经B项有了become这个动词了.varied就不再做动词了,而转为被副词less修饰的形容词-多样性的.
作者: ssl507 时间: 2007-7-29 16:30
顶
作者: gylucia 时间: 2007-7-31 23:19
up
作者: gylucia 时间: 2007-7-31 23:30
同意47楼说的，varied这里的意思不是变化，而是多样性。所以less varied,不是变化少，而是多样性变少了。所以是C,没有变化。
作者: wsdoll 时间: 2007-9-16 15:55
ACC.
27. 不是less varied.是没变
作者: 非去不可 时间: 2007-9-18 01:03
25题C。27也是C。注意下面这一段。
Single,
married, and widowed women
continued to pursue their own and
their husbands’ debtors through
legal action much as they had
(25) done in the previous century, but
despite this continuity, their place
in the legal system shifted
dramatically.
明显是说activity没变。下面说place in the legal...和activity无关.而for man，他们有了其他的activity，比如 the ability of creditors to buy and sell promissory notes..... 欢迎拍
the ability of creditors to buy and sell promissory notes.....
欢迎拍
作者: snowofjune 时间: 2007-12-9 06:34
第一题的B为啥不对？
作者: eileenmu木 时间: 2008-3-27 10:55
up
作者: debralee 时间: 2008-4-23 00:17
看了两遍，应该是ACC
作者: lichabrend 时间: 2008-5-30 21:55
up
作者: lichabrend 时间: 2008-5-30 22:15
針對25題 我想請問一下 版上大部分牛人總結是本篇作者並未闡釋自己的意見 而是主要在描述書本作者(Dayton)的 意見 若是如此 則A選中author不就應該是指Dayton而非本篇作者才對吧!!
作者: buda 时间: 2008-6-1 16:48
interpret is not equal to evaluate
remain does not mean less
agree:ACC
作者: xiaoda 时间: 2008-7-4 09:13
up
作者: jonathan1987 时间: 2008-12-14 22:28
我的答案是acc
作者: grape262001 时间: 2009-1-19 16:01
关于27题：
我还是支持B的，因为文中一直有强调妇女的位置是变化的，只是变化的程度不如男性，而C的前半句就把文中的这个意思完全给否了。
而且Single, married, and widowed women continued to pursue their own and their husbands’ debtors through legal action much as they had done in the previous century，这里说的是她们追究债务人责任的方式还和以前一样，并不是完全的WOMEN ACTIVITY啊。
作者: yzhao26 时间: 2009-3-4 10:34
up
作者: skigorush 时间: 2009-7-28 19:30
作者: sallyruru 时间: 2010-8-16 17:50
CCC
作者: lxw19 时间: 2010-10-10 17:13
Q26
答案是C 我的疑问是D
相关原文
前面的“although...”很明显是说women的呀~~既然women是performing crucial economic services，那么men就应该less likely.....
D怎么错了呢
作者: yaozaizai 时间: 2013-9-30 23:28
看了前人对26题的理解，我觉得定位不一样。我认为定位是这两句 1 Men’s commercial interests and credit networks became increasingly far-flung 2 At the same time, women’s networks of credit and debt remained primarily local and personal。这两句一个说男性对于经济兴趣和信用网络这些活动更远，一个说同时女性更local。这么看C，D都说的通，相比还是C好点，毕竟说男性更愿意怎么样，第一句也是说的这个意思。
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