36套EX20第7题

可爱多饭团团 · 发表于 2013-5-6 19:42:26

Discussion of the assimilation of Puerto Ricans in the United States has focused on two different factors: social standing and the loss of national culture, depending on whether the commentator is North American or Puerto Rican. Many North American social scientists consider Puerto Ricans as the most recent in a long line of ethnic entrants to occupy the lowest rung on the social ladder. Such a ―socio-demographic‖ approach tends to regard assimilation as a benign process. In contrast, the ―colonialist‖ approach of island-based writers tends to view assimilation as the forced loss of national culture in an unequal contest with imposed foreign values. There is, of course, a strong tradition of cultural accommodation among other Puerto Rican thinkers, like Eugenio Fernandez Mendez. But the Puerto Rican intellectuals who have written most about the assimilation process in the United States all advance cultural nationalist views, advocating the preservation of minority cultural distinctions and rejecting what they see as the subjugation of colonial nationalities. (162 words)

7. It can be inferred from the passage that a writer such as Eugenio Fernandez Mendez would most likely agree with which of the following statements concerning members of minority ethnic groups?
(A) It is necessary for the members of such groups
to adapt to the culture of the majority.
(B) The members of such groups generally encounter
a culture that is static and undifferentiated.
(C) Social mobility is the most important feature
of the experience of members of such groups.
(D) Social scientists should emphasize the cultural
and political aspects of the experience of
members of such groups.
(E) The assimilation of members of such groups
requires the forced abandonment of their
authentic national roots.

第七题，我选的是D ，答案是A 。
文章中对于assimilation是有North American or Puerto Rican这两大类之分。
自己错误的原因是对于各类人的小观点（比如PR intellect ，a writer such as Eugenio Fernandez Mendez ）有点理不清楚，求详解。

小镜儿爱木子 · 发表于 2013-5-6 22:30:21

North American的观点主要就是regard assimilation as a benign process，然后PR的观点是正相反。
题目中问的人名定位到倒数第二句，由最后一句的but 知道the Puerto Rican intellectuals 和other Puerto Rican thinkers, like Eugenio Fernandez Mendez的观点应该是相反的，advocating the preservation of minority cultural distinctions 这句取反就是A选项

奥特曼打GRE · 发表于 2013-5-6 22:48:47

我也是今天做的这套！
人名定位到倒数第二句，There is, of course, a strong tradition of cultural accommodation among other Puerto Rican thinkers, like Eugenio Fernandez Mendez.关键词cultural accommodation，即A的adapt。

我觉得是这样的：
在PR intellectuals这类人中，大部分人的观点是forced loss of national culture(kw)。之后有一个让步句There is, of course, a strong tradition of cultural accommodation among other Puerto Rican thinkers, like Eugenio Fernandez Mendez(~kw)，排除一些特殊的情况，比如M。but之后又继续肯定kw，即大部分PR持cultural nationalist views(kw)。

可爱多饭团团 · 发表于 2013-5-7 13:24:45

奥特曼打GRE 发表于 2013-5-6 22:48
我也是今天做的这套！
人名定位到倒数第二句，There is, of course, a strong tradition of cultural accom ...

讲得好清楚，就是排除特殊情况的这一点没看懂，thx~

可爱多饭团团 · 发表于 2013-5-7 13:26:11

小镜儿爱木子发表于 2013-5-6 22:30
North American的观点主要就是regard assimilation as a benign process，然后PR的观点是正相反。
题目中问 ...

对的，通过“but”可以快速取反（做阅读的时候老是忽视），thx~

36套EX20第7题

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