新东方GMAT阅读 25-1

strout

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Passage 25

  In 1977 the prestigious Ewha Women's University in Seoul, Korea, announced the opening of the first women's studies program in Asia. Few academic programs have ever received such public attention. In
5) broadcast debates, critics dismissed the program as a betrayal of national identity, an imitation of Westernideas, and a distraction from the real task of national unification and economic development. Even supporters underestimated the program ; they thought it would be
10) merely another of the many Western ideas that had already proved useful in Asian culture, akin to airlines,electricity, and the assembly line. The founders of the program, however, realized that neither view was correct. They had some reservations about the appli-
15) cability of Western feminist theories to the role of women in Asia and felt that such theories should be closely examined. Their approach has thus far yielded important critiques of Western theory, informed by the special experience of Asian women.
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20) For instance, like the Western feminist critique of the Freudian model of the human psyche, the Korean critique finds Freudian theory culture-bound, but in ways different from those cited by Western theorists.The Korean theorists claim that Freudian theory
25) assumes the universality of the Western nuclear, male-headed family and focuses on the personality formation of the individual, independent of society, An analysis based on such assumptions could be valid for a highly competitive, individualistic society. In the Freudian
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  family drama, family members are assumed to be engaged in a Darwinian struggle against each other　father against son and sibling against sibling. Such a concept of projects the competitive model of Westernsociety onto human personalities. But in the Asian
35) concept of personality there is no ideal attached to individualism or to the independent self. The Western model of personality development does not explain major char-acteristics of the Korean personality, which is social and group-centered. The "self" is a social being defined by
40) and acting in a group, and the well-being of both men and women is determined by the equilibrium of the group, not by individual self-assertion. The ideal is one of interdependency.
* In such a context, what is recognized as "depen-
45) dency" in Western psychiatric terms is not, in Korean terms, an admission of weakness or failure. All this bears directly on the Asian perception of men's and women's psychology because men are also " dependent", In Korean culture, men cry and otherwise easily show their
50) emotions, something that might be considered a betrayal of masculinity in Western culture. In the kinship-based society of Korea, four generations may live in the same house, which means that people can be sons and daugh-ters all their lives, whereas in Western culture, the roles of husband and son, wife and daughter, are often incom-patible.

1. Which of the following best summarizes the content ofthe passage?
(A) A critique of a particular women's studies program
(B) A report of work in social theory done by aparticular women's studies program
(C) An assessment of the strengths and weaknessesof a particular women's studies program
(D) An analysis of the philosophy underlyingwomen's studies programs
(E) An abbreviated history of Korean women'sstudies programs

觉得-答案不对。

4. It can be inferred from the passage that the broadcastmedia in Korea considered the establishment of theEwha women's studies program
(A) praiseworthy
(B) insignificant
(C) newsworthy
(D) imitative
(E) incomprehensible

我也错这题。imitative 以为找到keyword.没多想， 上了当。

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strout

4。C。

1。

(B) (D)

B 是说的the studies program所做的报告

D是对the studies program的分析。

这篇文章当然是分析the studies program. Answer is B.

WHY?

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