《杨继 GMAT阅读精选》第28篇 第2题

这道题目不知道该怎么选。

希望大虾能告诉我解题的思路是怎样的。谢谢啦~

PASSAGE 28
* The settlement of the United States has occupied traditional historians since 1893 when Frederick Jackson Turner developed his Frontier Thesis, a thesis that explained American development in terms of westward
5) expansion. From the perspective of women's history, Turner's exclusively masculine assumptions constitute a major drawback: his defenders and critics alike have reconstructed men's, not women's, lives on the frontier. However, precisely because of this masculine orientation,
10)revising the Frontier Thesis by focusing on women's experience introduces new themes into women's history—woman as lawmaker and entrepreneur—and, consequently, new interpretations of women's relation- ship to capital, labor, and statute.
15)Turner claimed that the frontier produced the indivi- dualism that is the hallmark of American culture, and that this individualism in turn promoted democratic institutions and economic equality. He argued for the frontier as an agent of social change. Most novelists and
20) historians writing in the early to midtwentieth century who considered women in the West, when they consid- ered women at all, fell under Turner's spell. In their works these authors tended to glorify women's contribu- tions to frontier life. Western women, in Turnerian tradi-
25) tion, were a fiercely independent, capable, and durable lot, free from the constraints binding their eastern sisters. This interpretation implied that the West provided a congenial environment where women could aspire to their own goals, free from constrictive stereotypes and
30) sexist attitudes. In Turnerian terminology, the frontier had furnished "a gate of escape from the bondage of the past."
* By the middle of the twentieth century, the Frontier Thesis fell into disfavor among historians. Later, Reac-
35) tionist writers took the view that frontier women were lonely, displaced persons in a hostile milieu that intensi- fied the worst aspects of gender relations. The renais- sance of the feminist movement during the 1970's led to the Stasist school, which sidestepped the good bad
40) dichotomy and argued that frontier women lived lives similar to the live of women in the East. In one now- standard text, Faragher demonstrated the persistence of the "cult of true womanhood" and the illusionary qual- ity of change on the westward journey. Recently the
45) Stasist position has been revised but not entirely discounted by new research.

问题：

2. Which of the following can be inferred about thenovelists and historians mentioned in lines 19-20?
(A) They misunderstood the powerful influence ofconstrictive stereotypes on women in the East.
(B) They assumed that the frontier had offered moreopportunities to women than had the East.
(C) They included accurate information about women'sexperiences on the frontier.
(D) They underestimated the endurance and fortitude offrontier women.
(E) They agreed with some of Turner's assumptionsabout frontier women, but disagreed with otherassumptions that he made.

答案选的是B，可是我不明白为什么。

解题思路是怎样的呀？

4. According to the passage, Turner makes which of the

  following connections in his Frontier Thesis?

Ⅰ. A connection between American individualism and

economic equality

Ⅱ. A connection between geographical expansion and

social change

Ⅲ. A connection between social change and financial

prosperity

  (A) I only

  (B)Ⅱonly

  (C) Ⅲ only

  (D) Ⅰand Ⅱ only *

  (E) Ⅰ,Ⅱ and Ⅲ

My question here is where to find the "geographical expansion " in II?

Thanks