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这篇阅读我读懂了，但是错好多。。。
（今天和PKU博士领导讨论了英语阅读题目，他说他最喜欢做的题目就是阅读理解，在听过他的经验分享后我依旧做成这样。。。而且我觉得这篇文章不难。。。 ）
In colonial Connecticut between 1670 and 1719, women participated in oneof every six civil cases, the vast majority ofwhich were debt related. Women's participation dropped to one in ten cases after 1719, and to one in twenty by the 1770's. however, as Cornelia Hughes Dayton notes in Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society inConnecticut, 1639-1789, thesestatistics are somewhat deceptive: infact,both the absolute numbers and the percentage of adult women participating in civil cases grew steadily throughoutthe eighteenth century, but the legal activity of menalso increased dramatically, and at a much faster rate. Single, married, and widowed women continued to pursuetheir own and their husbands' debtors through legal action much as they had donein the previous century, but despite this continuity, their place in the legalsystem shifted dramatically. Men's commercial interests and credit networks became increasingly far-flung,owing in part to the ability of creditors to buy and sell promissory notes(legal promises to pay debts). At the same time, women's networks of credit and debt remained primarilylocal and personal.Dayton contends that, althoughstill performing crucial economic services in their communities—services thaton tribute to the commercialization of the colonial economy—women remained for themost part outside the new economic and legal culture of the eighteenth century.
1.The passage suggests that which of thefollowing best compares the economic concerns of women with those of men towardthe close of the eighteenth Century in colonial Connecticut? - Both men and women had more economic responsibilities at the end of the century than they had had at the beginning of the century.
- Women's economic activities had become less varied by the end of the century; men’s economic activities had become more varied.
- Women's economic activities at the end of the century were similar to their activities at the beginning; men's economic activities changed considerably.
- Women's economic concerns at the end of the century were primarily familial; men's economic concerns were primarily political.
- Women's economic concerns at the end of the century were primarily personal; men's economic needs were primarily familial.
答案：B, 我选了C
2.According to the passage, compared with women ineighteenth-century Connecticut, men were - more likely to rely on credit and go into debt
- more likely to pursue their families' debtors
- more likely to participate in economic transactions outside their own communities
- less likely to perform economic services in their own communities.
- less likely to participate in civil cases that were not debt-related.
答案：C, 我选了A （我为什么没有在文章里读到这个答案。。。。。？）
3.The passage isprimarily concerned with - reporting an author's view of a phenomenon
- disputing the reasons usually given for an unexpected change
- evaluating the conclusions reached by an author
- assessing the impact of certain legal decisions.
- defending a controversial point of view
答案：A, 我选了A （唯一作对的一题，因为看见结尾句。。。。。）
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