GWD 21-17

GWD 21-Q15 to Q18:

      In her account of unmarried

       women’s
experiences in colonial

       Philadelphia, Wulf argues
that edu-

Line       cated young women, particularly

  (5)      Quakers, engaged in resistance to

patriarchal
marriage by exchanging

poetry critical
of marriage, copying

verse into their
commonplace

books.  Wulf suggests that this

 (10)      critique circulated beyond the

daughters of the
Quaker elite

and middle
class, whose com-

monplace books
she mines,

proposing that
Quaker schools

 (15)      brought it to many poor female

students of
diverse backgrounds.

      Here Wulf probably overstates

Quaker schools’ impact.  At
least

three years’
study would be

 (20)      necessary to achieve the literacy

       competence
necessary to grapple

       with
the material she analyzes.

In 1765, the
year Wulf uses to

demonstrate the
diversity of

 (25)      Philadelphia’s
Quaker schools,

128 students
enrolled in these

schools.  Refining Wulf’s numbers

by the
information she provides

on religious
affiliation, gender, and

 (30)      length of study, it appears that only

about 17 poor
non-Quaker girls

were educated in
Philadelphia’s

       Quaker
schools for three years or

longer.  While Wulf is correct that

 (35)
               a
critique of patriarchal marriage

circulated broadly, Quaker schools

probably cannot be credited with

instilling these
ideas in the lower

      classes. 
Popular literary satires

 (40)     on
marriage had already landed

on fertile
ground in a multiethnic

population that
embodied a wide

range of marital
beliefs and

practices.  These ethnic- and

 (45)      class-based traditions them-

selves
challenged the legitimacy

of patriarchal
marriage.

Q17:

The author of the passage implies which of
the following about the poetry mentioned in the first paragraph?

1. Wulf exaggerates the degree to which young women from an elite
        background regarded the poetry as providing a critique of marriage.
2. The circulation of the poetry was confined to young Quaker
        women.
3. Young women copied the poetry into their commonplace books
        because they interpreted it as providing a desirable model of unmarried
        life.
4. The poetry’s capacity to influence popular attitudes was
        restricted by the degree of literacy necessary to comprehend it.
5. The poetry celebrated marital beliefs and practices that were
        in opposition to patriarchal marriage.

that educated young women, particularly
            Quakers, engaged in resistance to patriarchal marriage by....

然后C是说这些女人是因为 they interpreted it as providing a desirable model of unmarried
     life.

但是原文没说这些人持有了unmarried life的想法，这些critique只是反对家长制的婚姻。

所以我觉得E好像更有道理，就是这些女人抱有的婚姻观是和家长制婚姻相反的。。。

不知道这样解释对不对。。。达人分析下。。。

这题我也看了很久,怎么看都觉得D是无关的，我选E

有哪位NN能指点一下啊?????

D的出处

At least three years’ study would be necessary to achieve the literacy competence necessary to grapple with the material she analyzes

E没提到poetry celebrated marital beliefs and practices

哎~我也做错了