gwd-1-4

morgan

gwd-1-4

GWD-1-4:      (阅读)

The primary purpose of the passage as a whole is to

                        

1. examine the tactics of antebellum political parties with regard to women
   
2. trace the effect of politics on the emergence of the woman’s rights movement
   
3. point out a deficiency in the study of a particular historical period
   
4. discuss the ideologies of opposing antebellum political parties
   
5. contrast the methodologies in two differing fields (P.h. and W.H.) of historical inquiry

is C or E ? i think E correct, but answer given is C. please help.

而今迈步从头越

Answer is C. Firstly attaches the passage.

The fields of antebellum (pre-Civil

       War) political history and women’s his-

       tory use separate sources and focus

Line       on separate issues.  olitical histori-

  (5)      ans, examining sources such as voting

records, newspapers, and politicians’

writings, focus on the emergence in the

1840’s of a new “American political

nation,” and since women were neither

(10)      voters nor politicians, they receive little

discussion.  Women’s historians, mean-

while, have shown little interest in the

subject of party politics, instead draw-

ing on personal papers, legal  records

(15)      such as wills, and records of  female

associations to illuminate women’s

domestic lives, their moral reform

activities, and the emergence of the

woman’s rights movement.

(20)            However, most historians have

underestimated the extent and signifi-

cance of women’s political allegiance

in the antebellum period.  For example,

       in the presidential election campaigns

(25)      of the 1840’s, the Virginia Whig party

strove to win the allegiance of Virginia’s

women by inviting them to rallies and

speeches.  According to Whig propa-

ganda, women who turned out at the

(30)      party’s rallies gathered information

that enabled them to mold party-loyal

families, reminded men of moral values

       that transcended party loyalty, and con-

ferred moral standing on the party.

(35)      Virginia Democrats, in response,

       began to make similar appeals to

women as well.  By the mid-1850’s

the inclusion of women in the rituals of

party politics had become common-

(40)      place, and the ideology that justified

such inclusion had been assimilated

by the Democrats.

而今迈步从头越

Actually the passage contrasts the  sources and focus of  two different fields (P h and W. h) as the first sentence of the passage says, but it's not the focus of the passage. The first sentence of the second paragraph states the TS: However, most historians have underestimated the extent and significance of women’s political allegiance in the antebellum period. Choice C paraphases the TS: point out a deficiency(underestimated) in the study of a particular historical period (antebellum period)

morgan

而今迈步从头越,

thank you for your help.

swlfx

简单点说，就是作者认为，A观点B观点都是有问题的，新的观点（当然是作者提出的）才是最好的。

也就是说比较不是目的，只是提出自己观点前的引子。

加菲猫猫

E used methodology, which means an "approach". The author presented two different perceptions rather than two methodologies

AMBER513

而今迈步从头越 发表于 2005-4-21 15:01
Actually the passage contrasts the  sources and focus of  two different fields ( ...

同意！               

AMBER513

文章开头先描述了一种状态，即The fields of antebellum (pre-Civil  War) political history and women’s his-tory use separate sources and focus on separate issues.后面详细说明了是怎样focus on seperate issues（即E选项的contast）,然后引出本文的主旨there was a deficiency in the study of a particular historical period(即C选项）。第二段详细论述了两个fields有什么样的交互作用，来佐证作者的观点，即“为什么我认为是存在deficiency的”
所以mainpoint是c而不是e