[求助]GWD13-16,18

肖小

关于这两道题的答案如何在文中定位呢?我没有找到啊

Q16 to Q19:

      In 1675, Louis XIV

       established the Parisian

       seamstresses’ guild, the first

Line       independent all-female guild

  (5)      created in over 200 years.

Guild members could make

and sell women’s and chil-

dren’s clothing, but were

prohibited from producing

 (10)      men’s clothing or dresses

for court women.  Tailors

resented the ascension
                of

seamstresses to guild status;

seamstresses, meanwhile,

 (15)      were impatient with the

remaining restrictions on

their right to clothe women.

      The conflict between

the guilds was not purely

 (20)      economic, however.  A 1675

       police report indicated that

       since so many seamstresses

were already working illegally,

the tailors were unlikely to

 (25)      suffer additional economic

damage because of the

seamstresses’ incorporation.

Moreover, guild membership

held very different meanings

 (30)      for tailors and seamstresses.

To the tailors, their status as

guild members overlapped

       with their role as heads of

household, and entitled them

 (35)
                           to employ as seamstresses

female family members who

did not marry outside the trade.

The seamstresses, however,

      viewed guild membership as

 (40)     a mark of independence from

the patriarchal family.  Their

guild was composed not of

family units but of individual

women who enjoyed unusual

 (45)      legal and economic privileges.

       At the conflict’s center was

the issue of whether tailors’

female relatives should be

identified as family members

 (50)      protected by the tailors’ guild

or as individuals under the

jurisdiction of the seam-

stresses’ guild.

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Q16:

The primary purpose of the passage is to

             

1. outline a scholarly debate over the impact of the Parisian seamstresses’ guild
2. summarize sources of conflict between the newly created Parisian seamstresses’ guild and the tailors’ guild
3. describe opposing views concerning the origins of the Parisian seamstresses’ guild
4. explore the underlying reasons for establishing an exclusively female guild in seventeenth-century Paris
5. correct a misconception about changes in seamstresses’ economic status that took place in Paris in the late seventeenth century

Answer: B

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Q18:

It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following was true of seamstresses employed by relatives who were members of the tailors’ guild?

             

1. They were instrumental in convincing Louis XIV to establish the seamstresses’ guild.
2. They were rarely allowed to assist master tailors in the production of men’s clothing.
3. They were considered by some tailors to be a threat to the tailors’ monopoly.
4. They did not enjoy the same economic and legal privileges that members of the seamstresses’ guild enjoyed.
5. They felt their status as working women gave them a certain degree of independence from the patriarchal family.

Answer: D

gre0426

Q16: It's easier to eliminate incorrect answers: (A) the passage doesn't mention any "debate" (C) the passage doesn't mention "opposing views" (which need at least two views); A/C are about the "big picture" so should be easy to eliminate (D) it may be difficult to remember whether the long passage talks about "reasons" for establishing female guild, but that's moot: even if it does, apparently it is NOT the main theme and therefore cannot be the answer (E) the author apparently does not intend to correct anything.

Q18: Please read from line 31.