GWD3-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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GWD3-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? - Alessandra was able to act more independently than most women
of her time because she was a widow. - Alessandra was aware that her personal motivation was embedded
in a social context. - Alessandra had goals and interests similar to those of many
other widows in her society. - Alessandra is an example of a Renaissance woman who expressed
her individuality through independent action. - Alessandra was exceptional because she was able to effect
changes in the social constraints placed upon women in her society.
这个题怎么答案是B?????没有提到Alessandra was aware that....只是提到Thus Alessandra conforms more closely to the anthropologist’s notion that personal motivation is embedded in a social context. 但这个是结论,没说这个人aware到了这一点。 我觉得是D。因为A这个人是这类例子所以才能拿出来做study.
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