GWD3 35

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?

文中哪说"through independent action"

(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.

1. 我也同意D, 请问：

哪里能找到 E的支持段落？

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

另外，

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)?

1. Alessandra was atypical of her time and was therefore an inappropriate choice for the subject of the historian’s research.
2. In order to bolster her thesis, the historian adopted the anthropological perspective on personhood.
3. The historian argues that the boundaries of the conceptual self were not always firm and closed in Renaissance Europe.
4. In her study, the historian reverts to a traditional approach that is out of step with the work of other historians of Renaissance Europe.
5. The interpretation of Alessandra’s actions that the historian puts forward is not supported by much of the historian’s research.

哪里能找到B的支持段落？

Q36 is E.

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.  

(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.

请问从INDEED开始,是一个预期反对,还是一个递进啊?是什么意思的说啊?

37 T 怎么都想不明白为什么选B 啊! 到底怎么理解这个PERSONHOOD 呢, 人类学家也没说PERSONHOOD 啊!只说INDIVIDUAL 是在社会里啊! 而不是'INDIVIDUAL' 的!总感觉PERSONHOOD = INDIVIDUAL 啊!

我选A了 天啊 是把A 看反了 如果A 改成 present a argument that undermine in the discusion of hitorian 's study later in the passage 对不对呢???????!我觉得人类学家说的就是在UNDERMINE 下段的HISTORIAN 啊!