请教GWD21-18

hotlinda

passage 2 (Q15-Q18)

   In her account account of unmarried

women’s experiences in colonial

Philadelphia, Wulf argues that edu-

Line       cated young women, particularly

(5)   Quakers, engaged in resistance to

patriarchal marriage by exchanging

poetry critical of marriage, copying

verse into their commonplace

books. Wulf suggests that this

(10) critique circulated beyond the

daughters of the Quaker elite

and middle class, whose com-

monplace books she mines,

proposing that Quaker shools

(15) brought it to many poor female

students of diverse backgrounds.

   Here Wulf probably overstates

Quaker schools’ impact. At least

three years’ study would be

(20) necessary to achieve the literacy

competence necessary to grapple

with the material she analyzes.

In 1765, the year Wulf uses to

demonstrate the diversity of

(25) Philadelphia’s Quaker schools,

128 students enrolled in these

schools. Refining Wulf’s numbers

by the information she provides

on religious affiliation, gender, and

(30) length of study, it appears that only

about 17 poor non-quaker girls

were educated in Philadelphia’s

Quaker schools for three years or

longer. While Wulf is correct that

(35) a critique of patriarchal marriage

circulated broadly, Quaker schools

probably cannot be credited with

instilling these ideas in the lower

classes. Popular literary satires

(40) on marriage had already landed

on fertile ground in a multiethnic

population that embodied a wide

range of marital beliefs and

practices. These ethnic- and

(45) class-based traditions them-

selves challenged the legitimacy

of patriarchal marriage.

GWD 21-18

Which of the following, if true, would most seriously undermine the author’s basis for saying that Wulf overstates Quaker schools’ impact (line 17-18) ?

A.     The information that Wulf herself provided on religious affiliation and gender of students is in fact accurate.

B.     Most poor, non-Quaker students enrolled in Quaker schools had completed one or two years’ formal or informal schooling before enrolling.

C.     Not all of the young women whose commonplace books contained copies of poetry critical of marriage were Quakers.

D.     The poetry featured in young women’s commonplace books frequently included allusions that were unlikely to be accessible to someone with only three years’ study in school. (B)

E.      In 1765 an unusually large proportion of the Quaker schools’ student body consisted of poor girls from non-Quaker backgrounds.

想不出B选项如何WEAKEN了作者的BASIC了.请指教

hotlinda

这道题懂了,确实应该选B.我还是把逻辑题当做了阅读理解题在题目中找答案呢.