Prep Test1- essay11

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Essay #11.  218  (22933-!-item-!-188;#058&00218-00)

 

Current
                feminist theory, in validating women's own stories of their experience, has encouraged scholars of women's history to view the use of women's oral narratives as the methodology,
                next to the use of women's written autobiography, that brings historians closest to the "reality" of women's lives.  Such narratives, unlike most standard histories, represent experience from the perspective of women, affirm the importance of women's contributions, and furnish present-day women with historical continuity that is essential to their identity, individually and collectively.

 

Scholars of women's history should, however, be as cautious about accepting oral narratives at face value as they already are about written memories.  Oral narratives are no more likely than are written narratives to provide a disinterested commentary on events or people.  Moreover, the stories people tell to explain themselves are shaped by narrative devices and storytelling conventions, as well as by other cultural and historical factors, in ways that the storytellers may be unaware of.  The political rhetoric of a particular era, for example, may influence women's interpretations of the significance of their experience.  Thus a woman who views the Second World War as pivotal in increasing the social acceptance of women's paid work outside the home may reach that conclusion partly and unwittingly because of wartime rhetoric encouraging a positive view of women's participation in such work.

Question #38.  218-05  (23025-!-item-!-188;#058&000218-05)

According to the passage, scholars of women's history should refrain from doing which of the following?

(A) Relying on traditional historical sources when women's oral narratives are unavailable 未提

(B) Focusing on the influence of political rhetoric on women's perceptions to the exclusion of other equally important factors 文章关于政治影响女性观点是为了说明这个方式局限性二不是作者让学者所避免的。

(C) Attempting to discover the cultural and historical factors that influence the stories women tell原文说了故事者在叙事时会受到习惯，文化和历史因素的影响，但是这个地方作者的意图在于说明叙述方式的局限性，而不是说学者应该避免的。

(D) Assuming that the conventions of women's written autobiographies are similar to the conventions of women's oral narratives

(E) Accepting women's oral narratives less critically than they accept women's written histories

原文：be as cautious about accepting oral narratives at face value as they already are about written memories. As cautious … as…

选E

以上是我对38题的分析。但是我还是不是很明确。

as .....as 是表示相同的含义吧。但是这个地方又有个at face value-表面上的价值。

我对这句话的理解：学者应当谨慎的接受口头叙述的表明价值正如他们已经了解了笔头上的记忆一样。

选项是less than

不知道哪位NN能帮忙解释下下