[求助]GWD-29-Q3-Q6

rpch2004

In a 1984 book, Claire C.

       Robertson argued that,

       before colonialism, age was

Line       a more important indicator

  (5)      of status and authority than

gender in Ghana and in

Africa generally.  British

colonialism imposed

European-style male-

 (10)      dominant notions upon

more egalitarian local

situations to the detriment

of women generally, and

gender became a defining

 (15)      characteristic that weak-

ened women’s power and

authority.

      Subsequent research in

Kenya convinced Robertson

 (20)      that she had overgeneralized

       about Africa.  Before colo-

       nialism, gender was more

salient in central Kenya than

it was in Ghana, although age

 (25)      was still crucial in determin-

ing authority.  In contrast with

Ghana, where women had

traded for hundreds of years

and achieved legal majority

 (30)      (not unrelated phenomena),

the evidence regarding

central Kenya indicated that

       women were legal minors

and were sometimes treated

 (35)
                       as male property, as were

European women at that

time.  Factors like strong

patrilinearity and patrilocality,

      as well as women’s inferior

 (40)     land rights and lesser

involvement in trade, made

women more dependent on

men than was generally the

case in Ghana.  However,

 (45)      since age apparently

remained the overriding

principle of social organiza-

tion in central Kenya, some

senior women had much

 (50)      authority.  Thus, Robertson

revised her hypothesis

somewhat, arguing that

in determining authority in

precolonial Africa age was a

 (55)      primary principle that super-

seded gender to varying

degrees depending on the

situation.

5:

The passage suggests that after conducting the research mentioned in line 18, but not before, Robertson would have agreed with which of the following about women’s status and authority in Ghana?

             

1. Greater land rights and greater involvement in trade made women in precolonial Ghana less dependent on men than were European women at that time.
2. Colonialism had a greater impact on the status and authority of Ghanaian women than on Kenyan women.
3. Colonialism had less of an impact on the status and authority of Ghanaian women that it had on the status and authority of other African women.
4. The relative independence of Ghanaian women prior to colonialism was unique in Africa.
5. Before colonialism, the status and authority of Ghanaian women was similar to that of Kenyan women.

为什么选B，NN分析一下吧

rpch2004

upup

一战前的问题在准备二战的时候又碰见了

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blogfish

今天也在钻研这篇阅读，觉得暴难啊～

这道题的定位：

8-10：British colonialism imposed European-style male- (10)  dominant notions upon more egalitarian local situations to the detriment of women generally, and gender became a defining (15)  characteristic that weak-ened women’s power and authority. 说明是在colonialism开始之后，以男性为中心的理念在非洲开始替代相较平等的概念，从而使gender成为削弱妇女权力的决定性特征。（大概是这个意思，凑合看吧）

20-25：Before colonialism, gender was more salient in central Kenya than it was in Ghana, 说明在colonialism之前，gender本身的salience在kenya》在ghana

综合上述，所以得到B

rpch2004

以下是引用blogfish在2008-7-21 1:27:00的发言：

今天也在钻研这篇阅读，觉得暴难啊～

这道题的定位：

8-10：British colonialism imposed European-style male- (10)  dominant notions upon more egalitarian local situations to the detriment of women generally, and gender became a defining (15)  characteristic that weak-ened women’s power and authority. 说明是在colonialism开始之后，以男性为中心的理念在非洲开始替代相较平等的概念，从而使gender成为削弱妇女权力的决定性特征。（大概是这个意思，凑合看吧）

20-25：Before colonialism, gender was more salient in central Kenya than it was in Ghana, 说明在colonialism之前，gender本身的salience在kenya》在ghana

综合上述，所以得到B

1。殖民主义开始后，殖民主义带来性别影响

2。在殖民主义前，性别影响在kenya比在ghana更严重

1+2怎么得出，殖民主义带来的性别影响在ghana比在kenya更严重（即B）

rpch2004

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rpch2004

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blogfish

不好意思，这两天家里断网，上网十分不便。

原文说在殖民以前gender的问题在Kenya更显著，那个时候的kenya女性已经跟欧洲女性所处的境况类似（35-40）而gender在那时的ghana所起到的社会作用并不如kenya，而如作者前文所说，英国殖民者给非洲大陆灌输了gender的理念，以至于英国治下的非洲女性地位和权威普遍下降。于是我的理解便是英国的colonialism对kenya的影响小于ghana，如果用数学来表示，

colonial 以前，gender对两国的影响： K>G

那么之后：即 K+C影响基本=G+C影响，所以C对k的影响小于C对G的影响。

不知道这样想对不对

rpch2004

大概理解了

colonial 之后的“K+C影响基本=G+C影响”原文好象没有直接给出,好难推理啊....

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celiachen

8. GWD29-Q5:

The passage suggests that after conducting the research mentioned in line 18, but not before, Robertson would have agreed with which of the following about women’s status and authority in Ghana?

B

A.      Greater land rights and greater involvement in trade made women in precolonial Ghana less dependent on men than were European women at that time.（信息搅再在一起）

B.       Colonialism had a greater impact on the status and authority of Ghanaian women than on Kenyan women.

C.      Colonialism had less of an impact on the status and authority of Ghanaian women that it had on the status and authority of
                other African women.（G是普遍的）

D.      The relative independence of Ghanaian women prior to colonialism was unique in Africa.（Y unique，而非G）

E.       Before colonialism, the status and authority of Ghanaian women was similar to that of Kenyan women.

pallasgrace

A Greater land rights and greater involvement in trade made women in precolonial Ghana less dependent on men than were European women at that time.（信息搅再在一起） ?

可是我觉得根据文中  k=Europe, G<K  应该就可以推出来了啊