GWD26_Q15-Q27查了好多帖子，争议不断，我把博森英吉老师的讲解贴出来，供大家参考

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博森gmat教师英吉---GMAT试题讲解2010年06月08日 14:53:18In colonial Connecticut between
1670 and 1719, women participated
in one of every six civil cases, the
Linevast majority of which were debt-
(5) related. Women’s participation
dropped to one in ten cases after
1719, and to one in twenty by the
1770’s. however, as Cornelia
Hughes Dayton notes inWomen
(10)Before the Bar: Gender, Law,
and Society in Connecticut,
1639-1789,these statistics are
somewhat deceptive: in fact,
both the absolute numbers and
(15) the percentage of adult women
participating in civil cases grew
steadily throughout the eighteenth
century, but the legal activity of
men also increased dramatically,
(20) and at a much faster rate. Single,
married, and widowed women
continued to pursue their own and
their husbands’ debtors through
legal action much as they had
(25) done in the previous century, but
despite this continuity, their place
in the legal system shifted
dramatically.Men’s commercial
interests and credit networks
(30) became increasingly far-flung,
owing in part to the ability of
creditors to buy and sell prom-
issory notes (legal promises to
pay debts). At the same time,
(35) women’s networks of credit and
debt remained primarily local and
personal.Dayton contends that,
although still performing crucial
economic services in their
(40) communities—services that
contributed to the commercialization
of the colonial economy—women
remained for the most part outside
the new economic and legal culture
of the eighteenth century.
文章说的是女性参与法律事务的百分比下降，但后面说这个数据有问题，中间出现了一些论证过程，最后作者承认女性还是远离现代化经济的
Q25A
The passage is primarily concerned with
A.reporting an author’s view of a phenomenon
B.disputing the reasons usually given for an
unexpected change
C.evaluating the conclusions reached by an
author
D.assessing the impact of certain legal
decisions.
E.defending a controversial point of view
A说的很像个佛，先放着
B驳斥一个原因，犯错可能性比a大多了，干掉
C评价了一些作者的结论（和a比，最大的区别在于a说的是作者的一个观点，c说作者的一些观点，文章作者就是对女性的一些行为提出了一个观点，A比c好）
D评估了法律决定的影响（没说带来的影响，干掉）
E支持了一个观点（没a像佛，干掉）
Q26C
According to the passage, compared with women
in eighteenth-century Connecticut, men were
A.more likely to rely on credit and go into debt
B.more likely to pursue their families’ debtors
C.more likely to participate in economic trans-
actions outside their own communities
D.less likely to perform economic services
in their own communities.
E.less likely to participate in civil cases that
were not debt-related.

Answer:

细节题，根据题干中的一些词汇我们可以定位到原文的28行，大概说的意思就是男人的network变得原来越宽了而女的的network还是维持在local上。我们来看看选项
A更有可能负债（没说，干掉）
B更有可能去追debtors（没说，干掉）
C更有可能参加社区之外的一些经济交易（和network变广有点关系，先留着）
D不太可能在自己的社区中从事经济服务（方向都不对，干掉）
E不太可能参加一些和债务没关系的civil cases（没说，干掉）
Q27B
The passage suggests that which of the following
best compares the economic concerns of women
with those of men toward the close of the eighteenth
Century in colonial Connecticut?
(A)Both men and women had more economic
responsibilities at the end of the century
than they had had at the beginning of the
century.
(B)Women’s economic activities had become
less varied by the end of the century;
men’s economic activities had become
more varied.
(C)Women’s economic activities at the end of
the century were similar to their activities
at the beginning; men’s economic activities
changed considerably.
(D)Women’s economic concerns at the end of
the century were primarily familial; men’s
economic concerns were primarily political.
(E)Women’s economic concerns at the end of
the century were primarily personal; men’s
economic needs were primarily familial.
不用回原文了，已经读过能回答问题的信息了，就说男的圈子变得越来越大，女的好像还在local上，我们来看看选项
A男的和女的有更多的责任（没说，干掉）
B女的行为变化少了男的变化多了（沾点，先保留）
C女的经济行为不变男的经济行为有巨大的改变（原文说女的经济行为变没变？显然是变了，还说一直下降，这个选项说女性经济行为不变就是主管答案，干掉，而b说的就是变化少了，但依然是变化了，所以b肯定比c好！）
D女的主要关心家庭男的关心政治（胡扯，干掉）
E女人的经济concern是个人的男人的经济需求是家庭的（没说，干掉）



我自己觉得答案应该是CCB，第一题我觉得确实应该是作者拿着CHD这个人的观点来表达他自己的观点：就是某些数据有欺骗性。对于这个人的观点都是正评价的，也就是说作者是认同这个人的这些说法的。AS CHD NOTES IN...这就是作者用这个人的观点表达自己的标志。

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