Passage 28
The settlement of the United States has occupied
traditional historians since 1893 when Frederick Jackson
Turner developed his Frontier Thesis, a thesis that
explained American development in terms of westward
(5) expansion. From the perspective of women’s history,
Turner’s exclusively masculine assumptions constitute a
major drawback: his defenders and critics alike have
reconstructed men’s, not women’s, lives on the frontier.
However, precisely because of this masculine orientation,
(10)revising the Frontier Thesis by focusing on women’s
experience introduces new themes into women’s
history—woman as lawmaker and entrepreneur—and,
consequently, new interpretations of women’s relation-
ship to capital, labor, and statute.
(15)Turner claimed that the frontier produced the indivi-
dualism that is the hallmark of American culture, and
that this individualism in turn promoted democratic
institutions and economic equality. He argued for the
frontier as an agent of social change. Most novelists and
(20) historians writing in the early to midtwentieth century
who considered women in the West, when they consid-
ered women at all, fell under Turner’s spell. In their
works these authors tended to glorify women’s contribu-
tions to frontier life. Western women, in Turnerian tradi-
(25) tion, were a fiercely independent, capable, and durable
lot, free from the constraints binding their eastern sisters.
This interpretation implied that the West provided a
congenial environment where women could aspire to
their own goals, free from constrictive stereotypes and
(30) sexist attitudes. In Turnerian terminology, the frontier
had furnished “a gate of escape from the bondage of the
past.”
By the middle of the twentieth century, the Frontier
Thesis fell into disfavor among historians. Later, Reac-
(35) tionist writers took the view that frontier women were
lonely, displaced persons in a hostile milieu that intensi-
fied the worst aspects of gender relations. The renais-
sance of the feminist movement during the 1970’s led to
the Stasist school, which sidestepped the good bad
(40) dichotomy and argued that frontier women lived lives
similar to the live of women in the East. In one now-
standard text, Faragher demonstrated the persistence of
the “cult of true womanhood” and the illusionary qual-
ity of change on the westward journey. Recently the
(45) Stasist position has been revised but not entirely
discounted by new research.
问题1:套路?是特别套路型吗?人名+理论名(边疆理论)---对其理论进行评价?
问题2:第6题,答案是C, 为什么D不对?
6. Which of the following best describes the organization
of the passage?---结构题
(A) A current interpretation of a phenomenon is
described and then ways in which it was developed
are discussed.
(B) Three theories are presented and then a new
hypothesis that discounts those theories is described.---三个理论指T理论,反对T的理论和平衡派理论,但文章没有提出新理论进行反对
(C) An important theory and its effects are discussed and
then ways in which it has been revised are described.---an important theory指T理论,effects指追随者思想,revised ways指反对者思想和平衡派观点
(D) A controversial theory is discussed and then
viewpoints both for and against it are described.
(E) A phenomenon is described and then theories
concerning its correctness are discussed.
问题:问什么D选项不对?
第一段讲T理论,及其drawback (-) and (+) (however之后引导句子),由此可以看出T理论是a controversial theory, 第二段讲T理论和其追随者的思想,既viewpoints for it, 第三段讲反对者思想和平衡派思想,既viewpoints against it.(虽然平衡派观点是二分法,不是完全反对T)
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