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

1.               

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

个人倾向于A，答案是C

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.

个人倾向于C，答案是B

A     

怎么没有人来回答阿，同困惑中

我选AAC答案是CCB，感觉完全不靠谱阿

Q26

According to the passage, compared with women

in eighteenth-century Connecticut, men were

A.     more likely to rely on credit and go into debt

B.     more likely to pursue their families’ debtors

C.     more likely to participate in economic trans-

actions outside their own communities

D.     less likely to perform economic services

in their own communities.

E.      less likely to participate in civil cases that

were not debt-related.

Answer:c

我选的ACC

请nn来看看啊

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

answer:A

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Q26

According to the passage, compared with women in eighteenth-century Connecticut, men were

A.      more likely to rely on credit and go into debt

B.      more likely to pursue their families’ debtors

C.      more likely to participate in economic transactions outside their own communities

D.     less likely to perform economic services in their own communities.

E.      less likely to participate in civil cases that were not debt-related.

Answer:C

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BQ27

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.

Answer:C

我选的是ACC~~

晕啊...这篇~阅读~怎么全错啊~~恐怖!

请教26题, 怎么选C呢? 我觉得A,C,D, 都很有道理,

(A)对是因为段首说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.

(C) 对,理由跟大家一样

(D) 对, 是对

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.红色部分的取非,

像这样的排除题目我总是错, 请大家指点~!!

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.红色部分的取非,

像这样的排除题目我总是错, 请大家指点~!!

丽香MM，偶认为26题是选C，这题真的粉难~~

首先看A，题目只是说legal activity of men also increased dramatically，没有提到more likely to rely on credit and go into debt 啊，不能这样来对原文进行延伸的。

然后是D，这个偶也看了很久，发现其实原文是说妇女although still performing crucial　economic services in their communities，crucial是指最重要的，但并没有排斥说男人就less likely to perform economic services in their own communities.

26 C

Men’s commercial interests and credit networks became increasingly far-flung, owing in part to the ability of creditors to buy and sell prom-issory notes

At the same time, women’s networks of credit anddebt remained primarily local and personal.

At the same time, women’s networks of credit anddebt remained primarily local and personal.