GWD27-25

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.

Q 25:

Which of the following studies would proceed in a

way most similar to the way in which, according to

the passage. Scharf’s book interprets Eleanor

Roosevelt’s career?

A.      An exploration of the activities of a wealthy

social reformer in terms of the ideals held

by the reformer

B.      A history of the leaders of a political party

which explained how the conflicting aims

of its individual leaders thwarted and

diverted the activities of each leader

C.      An account of the legislative career of a con-

servative senator which showed his goals to

have been derived from a national conser-

vative movement of which the senator was

a part

D.      A biography of a famous athlete which

explained her high level of motivation in terms

of the kind of family in which she grew up

E.      A history of the individuals who led the move-

ment to end slavery in the United States which

attributed the movement’s success to the

efforts of those exceptional individuals

我选B.

因为文中说"Their views and their lives were full Of contradictions.",S的书就是从这个角度去刻化ER的.

我觉的B是和这吻合的.而D没有说出这个contradictions.个人看法

谢谢wycg斑斑！

Roosevelt’s activities () have become intelligible in terms of this social context ..

请大家讨论.

为什么不是c呢？

scharf：把罗斯福夫人的政治活动放到妇女解放运动的大环境中来理解。

C: 描述保守参议员的立法目标如何来自他参与的全国性保守运动。

D: 描述运动员的动力如何来源于他成长的家庭。

似乎C更好一些。

跟楼上的同问

能解释一下为什么D正确吗？谢谢

还是不太明白

那么这些参考答案(本题中B)到底是怎么得出来的啊?