KAPLAN阅读题求解释

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The majority of white abolitionists and themajority of suffragists worked hard to convince their compatriots that thechanges they advocated were revolutionary. Far from undermining the accepteddistribution of power, their reforms would eliminate deviations from thedemocratic principle upon which it was based. Non-Garrisonian abolitionists repeatedlydisavowed miscegenation and revolutionary intentions. As for suffragists,despite the presence in the movement of socialists, and in the final year of afew blacks, immigrants, and workers, the racism and nativism in the movement’sthinking were not an aberration and did not conflict with the movement’s do,that, the white abolitionists and suffragists compromised the abidingprinciples of equality and the equal right of all to life, liberty and pursuitof happiness, just opposite is suggested: the non-Garrisonian majority of whiteabolitionists and the majority of suffragists showed what those principlesmeant in their respective generations, because they traced the farthestacceptable boundaries around them.

1.      Which of the following is suggestedabout the abolitionists movement?
A.    Its means disguised theirobjectives from the public.
B.     It contained different groupingcharacterized by varied philosophies.
C.     It undermined its principles byaccommodating public concerns.
D.    A majority of its membersmisunderstood its objectives.
E.     Its progress was hindered bythe actions of radical factions within it.

2.      The author’s main point is that
A.    the actions of the abolitionistand suffragist movements compromised their stated principles.
B.     the underlying beliefs ofabolitionists and suffragists were closer than is usually believed.
C.     Abolitionists’ and suffragists’thinking about equality was limited by assumptions of their time.
D.    presentist historians havewillfully misrepresented the ideology of abolitionists and suffragists.
E.     historians should impose theirown value systems when evaluating events of the past.
答案：1.B  2.C
提问：
题1中B中的“characterized by varied philosophies”如何解释。
题2中怎么提炼出主旨的。
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