GWD-26-25/27

GWD-26-Q25-Q27 18世纪妇女和男人在civil cases中的变化

In colonial Connecticut between  

1670 and 1719, women participated  

in one of every six civil cases, the

Line  vast majority of which were debt-

(5) 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    

(10) Before the Bar: Gender, Law, 

and Society in Connecticut,

1639-1789, these statistics are

somewhat deceptive: in fact,

both the absolute numbers and

(15) the percentage of adult women

participating in civil cases grew

steadily throughout the eighteenth

century, but the legal activity of

men also increased dramatically,

(20) and at a much faster rate. Single, 

married, and widowed women      

continued to pursue their own and

their husbands’ debtors through

legal action much as they had

(25) done in the previous century, but

despite this continuity, their place

in the legal system shifted

dramatically. Men’s commercial    

interests and credit networks        

(30) became increasingly far-flung,

owing in part to the ability of

creditors to buy and sell prom-

issory notes (legal promises to

pay debts). At the same time,        

(35) women’s networks of credit and     

debt remained primarily local and

personal. Dayton contends that,      

although still performing crucial      

economic services in their

(40) communities—services that

contributed to the commercialization

of the colonial economy—women

remained for the most part outside

the new economic and legal culture

of the eighteenth century.

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Q25

The passage is primarily concerned with

A.    reporting an author’s view of a phenomenon

B.     disputing the reasons usually given for an unexpected change

C.     evaluating the conclusions reached by an author

D.    assessing the impact of certain legal decisions.

E.     defending a controversial point of view

答案是C

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Q27

The passage suggests that which of the following
            best compares the economic concerns of women
            with those of men toward the close of the eighteenth
            Century in colonial Connecticut?

(A)
                    Both men and women had more economic
                responsibilities at the end of the century
                than they had had at the beginning of the
                century.

(B)  Women’s economic activities had become
                less varied by the end of the century;
                men’s economic activities had become
                more varied.

(C)  Women’s economic activities at the end of
                the century were similar to their activities
                at the beginning; men’s economic activities
                changed considerably.

(D)
                    Women’s economic concerns at the end of the century were primarily familial; men’s
                economic concerns were primarily political.

(E)  Women’s economic concerns at the end of
                the century were primarily personal; men’s
                economic needs were primarily familial.

答案是B

参考只给了答案，没有解释，不知哪位NN可以帮忙解答一下？谢谢！

Men’s commercial

interests and credit networks

(30) became increasingly far-flung,广泛的，遥远的

owing in part to the ability of

creditors to buy and sell prom-

issory notes (legal promises to

pay debts). At the same time,

(35) women’s networks of credit and

debt remained primarily local and

personal.

27题的依据就是这段，强调一个保持不变，一个变化。不选B还是因为less varied, 没有说变少

26题同样根据far-flung和与women的对比，说明men更有可能参加自己社区外的经济活动，所以C

A更容易负债全文并没有提到。