GWD 3-35~3-37 Verbal

各位大侠，能不能指点一下这篇文章应该怎么作。偶一个也没有选对。不胜感谢！

Q35 to Q37:

      Historians who study European

       women of the Renaissance try to mea-

       sure “independence,” “options,” and

Line       other indicators of the degree to which

  (5)      the expression of women’s individuality

was either permitted or suppressed.

Influenced by Western individualism,

these historians define a peculiar form

of personhood:  an innately bounded

(10)      unit, autonomous and standing apart

from both nature and society.  An

anthropologist, however, would contend

that a person can be conceived in ways

other than as an “individual.”  In many

(15)      societies a person’s identity is not

intrinsically unique and self-contained

but instead is defined within a complex

web of social relationships.

      In her study of the fifteenth-century

(20)      Florentine widow Alessandra Strozzi, a

historian who specializes in European

women of the Renaissance attributes

individual intention and authorship of

       actions to her subject.  This historian

(25)      assumes that Alessandra had goals

and interests different from those of her

sons, yet much of the historian’s own

research reveals that Alessandra

acted primarily as a champion of her

(30)      sons’ interests, taking their goals as

her own.  Thus Alessandra conforms

more closely to the anthropologist’s

       notion that personal motivation is

embedded in a social context.  Indeed,

(35)      one could argue that Alessandra did

       not distinguish her personhood from

that of her sons.  In Renaissance

Europe the boundaries of the con-

ceptual self were not always firm

(40)      and closed and did not necessarily

coincide with the boundaries of

the bodily self.

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Q35:

The passage suggests that the historian mentioned in the second paragraph (lines 19-42) would be most likely to agree with which of the following assertions regarding Alessandra Strozzi?

Alessandra was able to act more independently than most women of her time because she was a widow.

Alessandra was aware that her personal motivation was embedded in a social context.

Alessandra had goals and interests similar to those of many other widows in her society.

Alessandra is an example of a Renaissance woman who expressed her individuality through independent action.

Alessandra was exceptional because she was able to effect changes in the social constraints placed upon women in her society.

答案选D

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Q36:

It can be inferred that the author of the passage believes which of the following about the study of Alessandra Strozzi done by the historian mentioned in the second paragraph (lines 19-42)?

              

Alessandra was atypical of her time and was therefore an inappropriate choice for the subject of the historian’s research.

In order to bolster her thesis, the historian adopted the anthropological perspective on personhood.

The historian argues that the boundaries of the conceptual self were not always firm and closed in Renaissance Europe.

In her study, the historian reverts to a traditional approach that is out of step with the work of other historians of Renaissance Europe.

The interpretation of Alessandra’s actions that the historian puts forward is not supported by much of the historian’s research.

答案选E

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Q37:      

In the first paragraph, the author of the passage mentions a contention that would be made by an anthropologist most likely in order to

              

present a theory that will be undermined in the discussion of a historian’s study later in the passage

B.    offer a perspective on the concept of personhood that can usefully be applied to the study of women in Renaissance Europe

undermine the view that the individuality of European women of the Renaissance was largely suppressed

argue that anthropologists have applied the Western concept of individualism in their research

lay the groundwork for the conclusion that Alessandra’s is a unique case among European women of the Renaissance whose lives have been studied by historians

答案选B