阅读 求大牛讲解一下 In colonial Connecticut between 1670 and 1719

这篇阅读我读懂了，但是错好多。。。

In colonial Connecticut between 1670 and 1719, women participated in oneof every six civil cases, the vast majority ofwhich were debt 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 Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society inConnecticut, 1639-1789, thesestatistics are somewhat deceptive: infact,both the absolute numbers and the percentage of adult women participating in civil cases grew steadily throughoutthe eighteenth century, butthe legal activity of menalso increased dramatically, and at a much faster rate. Single, married, and widowed women continued to pursuetheir own and their husbands' debtors through legal action much as they had donein the previous century, but despite this continuity, their place in the legalsystem shifted dramatically. Men's commercial interests and credit networks became increasingly far-flung,owing in part to the ability of creditors to buy and sell promissory notes(legal promises to pay debts). At the same time, women's networks of credit and debt remained primarilylocal and personal.Dayton contends that, althoughstill performing crucial economic services in their communities—services thaton tribute to the commercialization of the colonial economy—women remained for themost part outside the new economic and legal culture of the eighteenth century.

·       1.The passage suggeststhat which of the following best compares the economic concerns of women withthose of men toward the close of the eighteenth Century in colonialConnecticut?

·       Both men and women hadmore economic responsibilities at the end of the century than they had had atthe beginning of the century.

·       Women's economicactivities had become less varied by the end of the century; men’s economicactivities had become more varied.

·       Women's economicactivities at the end of the century were similar to their activities at thebeginning; men's economic activities changed considerably.

·       Women's economicconcerns at the end of the century were primarily familial; men's economicconcerns were primarily political.

·       Women's economicconcerns at the end of the century were primarily personal; men's economicneeds were primarily familial.

答案：B, 我选了C

2.According to the passage, compared with women ineighteenth-century Connecticut, men were

·       more likely to rely oncredit and go into debt

·       more likely to pursuetheir families' debtors

·       more likely toparticipate in economic transactions outside their own communities

·       less likely to performeconomic services in their own communities.

·       less likely toparticipate in civil cases that were not debt-related.

答案：C, 我选了A （我为什么没有在文章里读到这个答案。。。。。？）

3.The passage isprimarily concerned with

·        reportingan author's view of a phenomenon

·        disputingthe reasons usually given for an unexpected change

·        evaluatingthe conclusions reached by an author

·        assessingthe impact of certain legal decisions.

·       defendinga controversial point of view