GWD27-24

Q 23 to Q 26:

When the history of women

began to receive focused attention

in the 1970’, Eleanor Roosevelt

Line was one of a handful of female

 (5) Americans who were well known

to both historians and the general

public. Despite the evidence that

she had been important in social-

reform circles before her husband

(10) was elected President and that

she continued to advocate differ-

ent causes than he did, she held

a place in the public imagination

largely because she was the wife

(15) of a particularly influential Presi-

dent. Her own activities were

seen as preparing the way for her

husband’s election or as a com-

plement to his programs. Even

(20) Joseph Lash’s two volumes of

Sympathetic biography, Eleanor and

Franklin (1971) and Eleanor: The

Years Alone (1972), reflected this

assumption.

(25)          Lash’s biography revealed a

Complicated woman who sought

Through political activity both to

flee inner misery and to promote

causes in which she passionately

(30) believed. However, she still

appeared to be an idiosyncratic

figure, somehow self-generated
                    

not amenable to any generalized

explanation. She emerged from

(35) the biography as a mother to the

entire nation, or as a busybody.

but hardly as a social type, a

figure comprehensible in terms

of broader social developments.

(40)             But more recent work on the

feminism of the post-suffrage

years (following 1920) allows us

to see Roosevelt in a different

light and to bring her life into a

(45) more richly detailed context. Lois

Scharf’s Eleanor Roosevelt, written

In 1987, depicts a generation of

Privileged women, born in the late

Nineteenth century and maturing

(50) in the twentieth, who made the

transition from old patterns of

female association to new ones.

Their views and their lives were full

Of contradictions. They maintained

(55) female social networks but began

to integrate women into mainstream

politics; they demanded equal

treatment but also argued that

women’s maternal responsibilities

(60) made them both wards and repre-

sentatives of the public interest.

Thanks to Scharf and others,

Roosevelt’s activities—for exam-

ple, her support both for labor laws

(65) protecting women and for appoint-

ments of women to high public

office—have become intelligible in

terms of this social context rather

than as the idiosyncratic career of

a famous man’s wife.

The author indicates that, according to Scharf’s

biography, which of the following was NOT

characteristic of feminists of Eleanor Roosevelt’s

generation?

A.     Their lives were full of contradictions

B.     Their policies identified them as idiosyncratic.

C.     They were from privileged backgrounds.

D.     They held that women had unique

responsibilities.

E.      They made a transition from old patterns

of a association to new ones.

Ans: B

我想问的是D中的UNIQUE在文章对应哪个词哦？

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