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Q5 to Q7:

      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

 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.

看了以前的帖子 大家都觉得是e 但我有个疑问：

Q6:

According to the passage, much of the research on Alessandra Strozzi done by the historian mentioned in the second paragraph (lines 19-42) supports which of the following conclusions?

             

1. Alessandra used her position as her sons’ sole guardian to further interests different from those of her sons.
2. Alessandra unwillingly sacrificed her own interests in favor of those of her sons.
3. Alessandra’s actions indicate that her motivations and intentions were those of an independent individual.
4. Alessandra’s social context encouraged her to take independent action.
5. Alessandra regarded her sons’ goals and interests as her own.

 the historian 指得应该是原文红字处的那个人啊 他跟其他人的意见应该相反阿...

 不明白了...

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