og12-40,B 怎么排除，“oral narrative”那一篇

smilegmat

OG12 第8篇 40题 请教！
   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, affi rm
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 infl uence
women’s interpretations of the signifi cance 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.
40. According to the passage, scholars of women’s history
should refrain from doing which of the following?
(B) Focusing on the influence of political rhetoric on
women’s perceptions to the exclusion of other
equally important factors   B说只关注political rhetoric ，不关注其他因素
(E) Accepting women’s oral narratives less critically
than they accept women’s written histories
答案为E，我做对了，但是
我觉得B也对，怎么排除？

eshopaholic

文章提到了narrative devices, storytelling conventions, cultural and historical factor 但没有说明它们是equally important

个人看法

hldada

也是个人看法，题目说了According to the passage，也就是根据文章最易推测出，文章中提到了必须谨慎对待 women's oral narratives的问题. 所以就有了这个选项；至于B，尽管提到了影响narrative的因素，我们第一步只能推出narratives不是那么的客观，然后才能推出在对其进行应用时要考虑到这些因素的影响，但是我们确实也不知道影响因素的权重，更不知道哪些是equally important 的，就想楼上说的，有点语无轮次，呵呵，说的不对见谅啊~~~~

Eileenl

Scholars of women’s history should, however, be as cautious about accepting oral narratives at face value as they already are about written memories.
感觉定位就定在这句话吧，(E) Accepting women’s oral narratives less critically
than they accept women’s written histories，就是原文换了说法