Prep Test1- essay11

jackal9

    

Essay #11. 
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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

    

(B) Focusing on the influence of political
rhetoric on women's perceptions to the exclusion of other equally important
factors

    

(C) Attempting to discover the cultural and
historical factors that influence the stories women tell

    

(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

正確答案是E， 我選D，請問E如何定位，D又如何錯了？謝謝

Pinpinpink

定位在二段首句，Scholars of women's history should, however, be as cautious about accepting oral narratives at face value as they already are about written memories. 对待oral narratives 要和对待written memories一样的cautious.

问题中的refrain要小心，它是说学者们不能做什么，当然就是不能对待oral narratives 没有对待written memories一样cautious!

D涉及到二段moreover后面的内容，它是从另外一个方面来提醒学者们要注意，并不是从这两个东西的差异来入手，而且 the stories people tell to explain themselves are shaped 并没有说stories是说的还是写的啊，这里按照我的理解，作者根本就是想说：无论说和写，都要受那些文化因素的影响，所以这里是两种途径的共性，它们就是一样的！所以D所说的要学者们    不     要认为两个的convention是一样的就没有立场阿！   如果在同一时代下，说的和写的的convention是有可能一样的阿！这个我是从意思上面来理解的，考试时候一定不会想那么深的，E那么浅，E对了D就不对就不用往下了，因为我实实在在定位到了E，就不会考虑其他选项了！

仅供参考！

ppjelly

我觉得此题用定位的方法比较合适。critical==cautious。因为如果用排错，我觉得B也是不能做的，但是文章确实没有提到。
(B) Focusing on the influence of political
rhetoric on women's perceptions to the exclusion of other equally important
factors