GWD29-Q6

joejo9

Q6-Q9 GWD-29-Q3-Q6

      In a 1984 book, Claire C.

       Robertson argued that,

       before colonialism, age was

Line       a more important indicator

  (5)      of status and authority than

gender in Ghana and in

Africa generally.  British

colonialism imposed

European-style male-

 (10)      dominant notions upon

more egalitarian local

situations to the detriment

of women generally, and

gender became a defining

 (15)      characteristic that weak-

ened women’s power and

authority.

      Subsequent research in

Kenya convinced Robertson

 (20)      that she had overgeneralized

       about Africa.  Before colo-

       nialism, gender was more

salient in central Kenya than

it was in Ghana, although age

 (25)      was still crucial in determin-

ing authority.  In contrast with

Ghana, where women had

traded for hundreds of years

and achieved legal majority

 (30)      (not unrelated phenomena),

the evidence regarding

central Kenya indicated that

       women were legal minors

and were sometimes treated

 (35)
        as male property, as were

European women at that

time.  Factors like strong

patrilinearity and patrilocality,

      as well as women’s inferior

 (40)     land rights and lesser

involvement in trade, made

women more dependent on

men than was generally the

case in Ghana.  However,

 (45)      since age apparently

remained the overriding

principle of social organiza-

tion in central Kenya, some

senior women had much

 (50)      authority.  Thus, Robertson

revised her hypothesis

somewhat, arguing that

in determining authority in

precolonial Africa age was a

 (55)      primary principle that super-

seded gender to varying

degrees depending on the

situation.

9. GWD29-Q6:

The author of the passage mentions the status of age as a principle of social organization in precolonial central Kenya in lines 24-26 most likely in order to

1. indicate that women’s dependence on men in precolonial Kenya was not absolute
2. contrast the situation of senior women to that of less senior women in precolonial Kenyan society
3. differentiate between the status and authority of precolonial Kenyan women and that of precolonial Ghanaian women
4. explain why age superseded gender to a greater extent in precolonial Kenya than it did elsewhere in Africa
5. identify a factor that led Robertson to revise her hypothesis about precolonial Africa

覺得E不太合適啊 A爲什麽不可以？

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-6-3 23:27:31编辑过]

will_kk

我选的时候本来觉得E比较宏观的就选的E,再看的时候确实不好

joejo9

“although age  was still crucial in determining authority.”一句，我認爲是對前面hypothesis的肯定，所以怎麽會選E呢。。。

phenomena

要区分作者的意图和文章主人公意图的区别。

作者在这里是用kenya来触发后面的一系列讨论。

不过我做的时候因为排版不好找不到24L在哪，看了楼主的帖子才知道原来那么靠前。

mcyinhbs

should be A

http://www.beatthegmat.com/rc-t33549.html

cathyghy

选了E，不过再回头看看好像是A更合适。
PS 偶的版本也是看不到24-26 line是哪里，不过貌似应该是这句吧
However, since age apparently remained the overriding principle of social organization in central Kenya……

viridian

我也选的A。。。。。。纠结