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In 1675, Louis XIV

       established the Parisian

       seamstresses’ guild, the first

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                    independent all-female guild

  (5)      created in over 200 years.

Guild members could make

and sell women’s and chil-

dren’s clothing, but were

prohibited from producing

 (10)      men’s clothing or dresses

for court women.  Tailors

resented the ascension of

seamstresses to guild status;

seamstresses, meanwhile,

 (15)      were impatient with the

remaining restrictions on

their right to clothe women.

      The conflict between

the guilds was not purely

 (20)      economic, however.  A 1675

       police report indicated that

       since so many seamstresses

were already working illegally,

the tailors were unlikely to

 (25)      suffer additional economic

damage because of the

seamstresses’ incorporation.

Moreover, guild membership

held very different meanings

 (30)      for tailors and seamstresses.

To the tailors, their status as

guild members overlapped

       with their role as heads of

household, and entitled them

 (35)    to employ as seamstresses

female family members who

did not marry outside the trade.

The seamstresses, however,

      viewed guild membership as

 (40)     a mark of independence from

the patriarchal family.  Their

guild was composed not of

family units but of individual

women who enjoyed unusual

 (45)      legal and economic privileges.

       At the conflict’s center was

the issue of whether tailors’

female relatives should be

identified as family members

 (50)      protected by the tailors’ guild

or as individuals under the

jurisdiction of the seam-

stresses’ guild.

我们先来了解一下中心，怎么了解？傻子都知道，读段首转折，第一段首句“一帮人做衣服”
                第二段首句“斗争的矛盾不仅仅是经济上的”。我大概知道这篇文章讲的是这帮人在做衣服的时候有一些矛盾，并且这些矛盾不仅仅是经济的。最终你会发现，80%的社会科学类文章用中心就足以把大部分题都做出来。Q18:

It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following was true of seamstresses employed by relatives who were members of the tailors’ guild?

A.     They were instrumental in convincing Louis XIV to establish the seamstresses’ guild.

B.     They were rarely allowed to assist master tailors in the production of men’s clothing.

C.     They were considered by some tailors to be a threat to the tailors’ monopoly.

D.     They did not enjoy the same economic and legal privileges that members of the seamstresses’ guild enjoyed.

E.      They felt their status as working women gave them a certain degree of independence from the patriarchal family.

看一下这个题，感觉象问了个细节，但即使是细节，它也得和中心有点关系，我们尝试着去找几个和中心有点关系的选项。A说他们在说服这个家伙的时候有用，和中心一点关系都没有。B 好歹说的是做衣服，和中心沾边，先留着。C谈的是垄断的问题。不沾
                    D 享受经济和法律特权。和中心“斗争的矛盾不仅仅是经济上的”沾边，留着。E 说的是独立的问题，不沾。那b和d比，谁好？一篇文章越往后越是中心（如果文章最后都不是作者想表达的态度，就证明这篇文章作者还没写完呢！），这是基本写作思路，那就是D比B好

Q19:

The author mentions the seamstresses’ view of guild membership as a “mark of independence from the patriarchal family” (lines 40-41) primarily in order to

A.     emphasize that the establishment of the seamstresses’ guild had implications that were not solely economic

B.     illustrate the conflict that existed between tailors and their female family members over membership in the tailors’ guild

C.     imply that the establishment of the seamstresses’ guild ushered in a period of increased economic and social freedom for women in France

D.     provide an explanation for the dramatic increase in the number of women working as seamstresses after 1675

E.      indicate that members of the seamstresses’ guild were financially more successful than were tailors’ female relatives protected by the tailors’ guild

这道题更弱，在五个选项里，好像只有A和中心“斗争不仅仅是经济的”沾边，刚才那道我还得比比两个沾边选项，这道题和中心沾边的既然只剩一个，那就是它了。管他对不对。这就是考场那天的做题方法！