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新东方ＧＭＡＴ阅读精选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-

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                        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

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                        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.

 

4. According to the passage, Turner makes which of the

  following connections in his Frontier Thesis?  A

 Ⅰ. A connection between American individualism and

economic equality

 Ⅱ. A connection between geographical expansion and

social change

 Ⅲ. A connection between social change and financial

prosperity　　　Ｄ

  (A) I only

  (B)Ⅱonly

  (C) Ⅲ only

  (D) Ⅰand Ⅱ only

  (E) Ⅰ,Ⅱ and Ⅲ

 

 

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He argued for the

  frontier as an agent of social change.不就是吗

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(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.