OG-40-250

250.    It can be inferred from the passage that, in Eisenstein’s view, working women at the turn of the century had which of the following attitudes toward the dominant ideology of their time? C

(A) They resented the dominant ideology as degrading.

(B) They preferred the dominant idology to other available ideologies.

(C) They began to view the dominant idology to other available ideologies.

(D) They accepted some but not all aspects of the dominant ideology.

(E) They believed that the dominant ideology isolated them from one another.

先帮楼主贴原文：

In an unfinished but highly suggestive series of essays, the late Sarah Eisenstein has focused attention on the evolution of working women’s values from the turn of the century to the First World War. Eisenstein argues that turn-of-the-century women neither wholly accepted nor rejected what she calls the dominant “ideology of domesticity,” but rather took this and other available ideologies—feminism, socialism, trade unionism —and modified or adapted them in light of their own experiences and needs. In thus maintaining that wage-work helped to produce a new “consciousness” among women, Eisenstein to some extent challenges the recent, controversial proposal by Leslie Tentler that for women the work experience only served to reinforce the attractiveness of the dominant ideology. According to the Tentler, the degrading conditions under which many female wage earners worked made them view the family as a source of power and esteem available nowhere else in their social world. In contrast, Eisenstein’s study insists that wage-work had other implications for women’s identities and consciousness. Most importantly, her work aims to demonstrate that wage-work enabled women to become aware of themselves as a distinct social group capable of defining their collective circumstance. Eisenstein insists that as a group working-class women were not able to come to collective consciousness of their situation until they began entering the labor force, because domestic work tended to isolate them from one another.

Unfortunately, Eisenstein’s unfinished study does not develop these ideas in sufficient depth or detail, offering tantalizing hints rather than an exhaustive analysis. Whatever Eisenstein’s overall plan may have been, in its current form her study suffers from the limited nature of the sources she depended on. She uses the speeches and writings of reformers and labor organizers, who she acknowledges were far from representative, as the voice of the typical woman worker. And there is less than adequate attention given to the differing values of immigrant groups that made up a significant proportion of the population under investigation. While raising important questions, Eisenstein’s essays do not provide definitive answer, and it remains for others to take up the challenges they offer.

这题偶的版本是酱紫D：

250. It can be inferred from the passage that, in Eisenstein’s view, working women at the turn of the century had which of the following attitudes toward the dominant ideology of their time?

(A) They resented the dominant ideology as degrading.

(B) They preferred the dominant ideology to other available ideologies.

(C) They began to view the dominant ideology more favorably as a result of their experiences in the labor force.

(D) They accepted some but not all aspects of the dominant ideology.（D）

(E) They believed that the dominant ideology isolated them from one another.

FYI. 你的版本C那句话偶还看不大懂...

我也是楼主的版本，所以很糊涂，不知楼上的是从哪里来的版本，好象比我们的准确。

我分析可能输入C的时候把B的后半部分错误的输入了，所以我们没办法看懂。

理解了这句话，就可选对题了：

Eisenstein argues that turn-of-the-century women neither wholly accepted nor rejected what she calls the dominant “ideology of domesticity,” but rather took this and other available ideologies—feminism, socialism, trade unionism —and modified or adapted them in light of their own experiences and needs，

用了neither...nor...,but rather...的结构，引出Eisenstain的观点。

对C项翻译一下：她们开始更看重主流的意识形态由于她们在劳动力中的经验。

C项在上面的话里后半句提了一下，不全面，非正确选项。

另外提一下，在考试中不可能用英文翻译成中文的思维方式去理解文章，而是用英文直接理解。