og-35--Q219

irisqingyu

请问OG-35-Q219,OG 解释,我实在不是很明白,请NN讲解一下.

The best answer is D because only the first definition mentions ancestry as a component of ethnicity. The two definitions are contrasted in the passage as well as in choices A, B, and C, but there is not information in the passage to suggest that the definitions are different in any of the specific ways mentioned in these choices.

我倒认为A,B 都不错呀

wycg

LZ能不能把原文paste过来?

irisqingyu

Two divergent definitions have dominated sociologists’

discussions of the nature of ethnicity. The first emphasizes

the primordial and unchanging character of ethnicity. In

this view, people have an essential need for belonging that

(5) is satisfied by membership in groups based on shared

ancestry and culture. A different conception of ethnicity

de-emphasizes the cultural component and defines ethnic

groups as interest groups. In this view, ethnicity serves as

a way of mobilizing a certain population behind issues

(10) relating to its economic position. While both of these

definitions are useful, neither fully captures the dynamic

and changing aspects of ethnicity in the United States.

Rather, ethnicity is more satisfactorily conceived of as a

process in which preexisting communal bonds and common

(15) cultural attributes are adapted for instrumental purposes

according to changing real-life situations.

One example of this process is the rise of participation

by Native American people in the broader United States

political system since the Civil Rights movement of the

(20)1960’s. Besides leading Native Americans to participate

more actively in politics (the number of Native American

legislative officeholders more than doubled), this movement

also evoked increased interest in tribal history and traditional

culture. Cultural and instrumental components of

(25 )ethnicity are not mutually exclusive, but rather reinforce

one another.

The Civil Rights movement also brought changes in the

uses to which ethnicity was put by Mexican American

people. In the 1960’s, Mexican Americans formed

(30) community-based political groups that emphasized ancestral

heritage as a way of mobilizing constituents. Such emerg-

ing issues as immigration and voting rights gave Mexican

American advocacy groups the means by which to promote

ethnic solidarity. Like European ethnic groups in the

(35) nineteenth-century United States, late-twentieth-century

Mexican American leaders combined ethnic with contem-

porary civic symbols. In 1968 Henry Censors, then mayor

of San Antonio, Texas, cited Mexican leader Benito Juarez

as a model for Mexican Americans in their fight for con-

(40) temporary civil rights. And every year, Mexican Americans

celebrate Cinco de Mayo as fervently as many Irish

American people embrace St. Patrick’s Day (both are major

holidays in the countries of origin), with both holidays

having been reinvented in the context of the United States

and linked to ideals, symbols, and heroes of the United

States

219. Which is the following statements about the first two definitions of ethnicity discussed in

the first paragraph is supported by the passage?

(A)   One is supported primarily by sociologists, and the other is favored by members of ethnic groups.

(B)    One emphasizes the political aspects of ethnicity, and the other focuses on the economic aspects.

(C)    One is the result of analysis of United States populations, and the other is the result of analysis of European populations.

(D)    One focuses more on the ancestral components of ethnicity than does the other. (D)

(E)     One focuses more on immigrant groups than does the other.

这些天,又看了几次,总觉得没有一个很明晰的思路,请NN讲解一下.

wycg

以下是引用irisqingyu在2006-1-21 10:47:00的发言：

Two divergent definitions have dominated sociologists’

discussions of the nature of ethnicity. The first emphasizes

the primordial and unchanging character of ethnicity. In

this view, people have an essential need for belonging that

(5) is satisfied by membership in groups based on shared

ancestry and culture. A different conception of ethnicity

de-emphasizes the cultural component and defines ethnic

groups as interest groups. In this view, ethnicity serves as

a way of mobilizing a certain population behind issues

(10) relating to its economic position. While both of these

definitions are useful, neither fully captures the dynamic

and changing aspects of ethnicity in the United States.

Rather, ethnicity is more satisfactorily conceived of as a

process in which preexisting communal bonds and common

(15) cultural attributes are adapted for instrumental purposes

according to changing real-life situations.

One example of this process is the rise of participation

by Native American people in the broader United States

political system since the Civil Rights movement of the

(20)1960’s. Besides leading Native Americans to participate

more actively in politics (the number of Native American

legislative officeholders more than doubled), this movement

also evoked increased interest in tribal history and traditional

culture. Cultural and instrumental components of

(25 )ethnicity are not mutually exclusive, but rather reinforce

one another.

The Civil Rights movement also brought changes in the

uses to which ethnicity was put by Mexican American

people. In the 1960’s, Mexican Americans formed

(30) community-based political groups that emphasized ancestral

heritage as a way of mobilizing constituents. Such emerg-

ing issues as immigration and voting rights gave Mexican

American advocacy groups the means by which to promote

ethnic solidarity. Like European ethnic groups in the

(35) nineteenth-century United States, late-twentieth-century

Mexican American leaders combined ethnic with contem-

porary civic symbols. In 1968 Henry Censors, then mayor

of San Antonio, Texas, cited Mexican leader Benito Juarez

as a model for Mexican Americans in their fight for con-

(40) temporary civil rights. And every year, Mexican Americans

celebrate Cinco de Mayo as fervently as many Irish

American people embrace St. Patrick’s Day (both are major

holidays in the countries of origin), with both holidays

having been reinvented in the context of the United States

and linked to ideals, symbols, and heroes of the United

States

219. Which is the following statements about the first two definitions of ethnicity discussed in

the first paragraph is supported by the passage?

(A)   One is supported primarily by sociologists, and the other is favored by members of ethnic groups.

(B)    One emphasizes the political aspects of ethnicity, and the other focuses on the economic aspects.

(C)    One is the result of analysis of United States populations, and the other is the result of analysis of European populations.

(D)    One focuses more on the ancestral components of ethnicity than does the other. (D)

(E)     One focuses more on immigrant groups than does the other.

这些天,又看了几次,总觉得没有一个很明晰的思路,请NN讲解一下.

A不对,原文第一句话, Two divergent definitions have dominated sociologists’discussions of the nature of ethnicity.俩个关点都被sociologists讨论.比没有说sociologists只持哪一个.

B不对,原问第一段里.The first emphasizes the primordial and unchanging character of ethnicity.和 A different conception of ethnicity de-emphasizes the cultural component and defines ethnic groups as interest groups.

irisqingyu

THANKS A LOT!!!想一想,这个问题实在是太傻了,但一旦陷进去了,就转不出来了,而且OG说得太含糊了.我想总结起来

A)错或反

B)无,其实文中并没有提到political aspects ,economic aspects