prep-1-essay5-16.

ppjelly

    

Essay
#5. 
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Historians have identified two dominant currents
in the Russian women's movement of the late tsarist period.  "Bourgeois" feminism, so called by
its more radical opponents, emphasized "individualist" feminist goals
such as access to education, career opportunities, and legal equality.  "Socialist" feminists, by contrast,
emphasized class, rather than gender, as the principal source of women's
inequality and oppression, and socialist revolution, not legal reform,
as the only road to emancipation and equality.

    

However, despite antagonism between
bourgeois feminists and socialist feminists, the two movements shared certain
underlying beliefs.  Both regarded paid
labor as the principal means by which women might attain emancipation:  participation in the workplace and economic
self-sufficiency, they believed, would make women socially useful and therefore
deserving of equality with men. 
Both groups also recognized the enormous difficulties women faced
when they combined paid labor with motherhood. 
In fact, at the First All-Russian Women's Congress in 1908, most
participants advocated maternity insurance and paid maternity leave, although
the intense hostility between some socialists and bourgeois feminists at the
Congress made it difficult for them to recognize these areas of agreement.  Finally, socialist feminists and most
bourgeois feminists concurred in
            subordinating women's
emancipation to what they considered the more important goal of liberating
the entire Russian population from political oppression, economic
backwardness, and social injustice.

    

Question #16.  118-06       (21963-!-item-!-188;#058&000118-06)

    

According to the passage, Russian socialists
within the women's movement and most bourgeois feminists disagreed about which
of the following?

    

(A) Whether legal reform was central to the
achievement of feminist goals

    

(B) Whether paid employment was important for the
achievement of equality

    

(C) Whether maternity insurance was desirable for
working mothers

    

(D) Whether working mothers faced obstacles

    

(E) Whether women's emancipation should be
subordinated to the liberation of the Russian population

答案选A，为什么不选C。是不是因为文中关于maternity insurance只是some不同意，而most是同意的。见文中红色标注的部分。

jeansummer

most参与者同意要"advocated maternity insurance ",而some不和协阻碍了他们想要达成的共识——"advocated maternity insurance ",所以most和some所讲的其实是一件事。这一段的并列关系很明显，分别叙述了三个共同点，也就是BCD

myheart2008

我是用原文中的legal equity和not legal reform决定选A的.

下面这个问题我没想明白,LZ怎么选的?

The passage suggests that socialists within the Russian women's movement and most bourgeois feminists believed that in Russia

(A) women would not achieve economic equality until they had political representation within the government

(B) the achievement of larger political aims should take precedence over the achievement of women's rights

(C) the emancipation of women would ultimately bring about the liberation of the entire Russian population from political oppression

(D) women's oppression was more rooted in economic inequality than was the case in other countries

(E) the women's movement was more ideologically divided than were women's movements in other countries

ppjelly

楼上说的有道理，完蛋，我没仔细看第一段这句话，觉得都是举例和排比，就一晃过去了。然后又在第二段被most、some一忽悠，就选错了。不过现在还是不明白2楼说的啥意思？两拨人都同意maternity insurance？？？

楼上那题选B,看本文最后一句话，注意看我下划线的几个单词，是理解的关键。我想你可能没搞清楚subordinate A to B的用法，大致意思就是说最后这两拨人都认同还是应该把目标定为全russian而不仅仅是女人解放：Finally, socialist feminists and most bourgeois
feminists concurred in
        subordinating
        women's emancipation to
what they considered the more important goal of liberating the entire
Russian population from political oppression, economic backwardness, and
social injustice.

figoliuxi

其实这个题似乎还有这样的错误, 我查阅了下,发现C中maternity insurance应该主要是为孕妇提供的,而不是为mothers提供的,所以C也不对

angelazhao1010

谢谢我也有同样的疑问，现在解决了~