求助GWD27-Q23,Q25，完全没思路，之前没讨论过

taixiKim

GWD27-Q 23 to Q 26:

When the history of women began to receive focused attention in the 1970’, Eleanor Roosevelt was one of a handful of female Americans who were well known to both historians and the general public. Despite the evidence that she had been important in social-reform circles before her husband was elected President and that she continued to advocate different causes than he did, she held a place in the public imagination largely because she was the wife of a particularly influential President. Her own activities were seen as preparing the way for her husband’s election or as a complement to his programs. Even Joseph Lash’s two volumes of sympathetic biography, Eleanor and Franklin (1971) and Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972), reflected this assumption.

Lash’s biography revealed a complicated woman who sought through political activity both to flee inner misery and to promote causes in which she passionately believed. However, she still appeared to be an idiosyncratic figure, somehow self-generated not amenable to any generalized explanation. She emerged from the biography as a mother to the entire nation, or as a busybody, but hardly as a social type, a figure comprehensible in terms of broader social developments.

But more recent work on the feminism of the post-suffrage years (following 1920) allows us to see Roosevelt in a different light and to bring her life into a more richly detailed context. Lois Scharf’s Eleanor Roosevelt, written in 1987, depicts a generation of privileged women, born in the late nineteenth century and maturing in the twentieth, who made the transition from old patterns of female association to new ones. Their views and their lives were full of contradictions. They maintained female social networks but began to integrate women into mainstream politics; they demanded equal treatment but also argued that women’s maternal responsibilities made them both wards and representatives of the public interest. Thanks to Scharf and others, Roosevelt’s activities—for example, her support both for labor laws protecting women and for appointments of women to high public office—have become intelligible in terms of this social context rather than as the idiosyncratic career of a famous man’s wife.

Q 23: The passage as a whole is primarily concerned with which of the following?

A.      Changes in the way in which Eleanor
            Roosevelt’s life is understood

B.       Social changes that made possible the role
            played by Eleanor Roosevelt in social reform

C.      Changes in the ways in which historians have
            viewed the lives of American women

D.      Social changes that resulted from the activities
            of Eleanor Roosevelt (A)

E.       Changes in the social roles that American
            women have played

Q 26:  The author cites which of the following as evidence
            against the public view of Eleanor Roosevelt held
            in the 1970’s?

A.      She had been born into a wealthy family.

B.       Her political career predated the adoption
            of women’s suffrage.

C.      She continued her career in politics even
            after her husband’s death.

D.      She was one of a few female historical
            figures who were well known to historians by the 1970’s. (D)

E.       Her activism predated her husband’s presidency and her projects differed from his.

Q23, why not C? Q26--totally got lost and have no clue...

ggg12345678

文章的结构

文章主要是说的这个MM本人的事情。第一段说她虽然做了很多事，但是被认为是自己总统老公的一个补充。第二段说她在传记里被描述成怎样。第三段写最近的研究让我们更进一步了解了她到底是怎样的人。

23题的C答案，我认为是错在lives of American women。文章基本上紧扣这个MM，而没有延伸到美国妇女

我觉得你是看到第三段的depicts a generation of privileged women, born in the late nineteenth century and maturing in the twentieth, who made the transition from old patterns of female association to new ones. Their views and their lives were full of contradictions. They maintained female social networks but began to integrate women into mainstream politics; they demanded equal treatment but also argued that women’s maternal responsibilities made them both wards and representatives of the public interest这一部分所以认为文章在写美国妇女。但是这一部分写的是这个MM这类女人的特点而不是美国妇女的特点，而且这几句话完了之后，后面的句子还是回到了MM本身。

26题

细节题了。题目中against,提示要反驳。先看看反驳的对象。是公众眼中的MM的形象。这个是在第一段写的。公众把这个MM认为是她总统老公的附属和补充。那么答案就应该是，这个MM其实不是她老公的补充和附属

答案E  她的活动在她老公当总统之前就开始了而且她活动的内容也和她老公不同

taixiKim

Q 25: Which of the following studies would proceed in a
        way most similar to the way in which, according to the passage. Scharf’s book interprets Eleanor
        Roosevelt’s career?

A.      An exploration of the activities of a wealthy
        social reformer in terms of the ideals held
        by the reformer

B.       A history of the leaders of a political party
        which explained how the conflicting aims
        of its individual leaders thwarted and
        diverted the activities of each leader

C.      An account of the legislative career of a conservative senator which showed his goals to
        have been derived from a national conservative movement of which the senator was
        a part

D.      A biography of a famous athlete which
        explained her high level of motivation in terms
        of the kind of family in which she grew up

E.       A history of the individuals who led the movement to end slavery in the United States which
        attributed the movement’s success to the
        efforts of those exceptional individuals

抱歉阿，我问错了，其实我是问第25题，答案D，能指教一下思路吗？完全没头绪怎么得出的这个答案。。。多谢！

superb

我个人觉得应该是C

But more recent work on the feminism of the post-suffrage years (following 1920) allows us to see Roosevelt in a different light and to bring her life into a more richly detailed context

have become intelligible in terms of this social context rather than as the idiosyncratic career of a famous man’s wife

在社会背景下研究一个人

选D就是认为研究方法是把人和家庭背景联系起来，文中只有a generation of privileged women和这个有点关系，但是没说Schar是据此来研究的。

azacarrie

以下是引用superb在2008-7-31 17:24:00的发言：

我个人觉得应该是C

But more recent work on the feminism of the post-suffrage years (following 1920) allows us to see Roosevelt in a different light and to bring her life into a more richly detailed context

have become intelligible in terms of this social context rather than as the idiosyncratic career of a famous man’s wife

在社会背景下研究一个人

选D就是认为研究方法是把人和家庭背景联系起来，文中只有a generation of privileged women和这个有点关系，但是没说Schar是据此来研究的。

quite agree with you ~~~

whismanc

thx

sunnygirl_jj

我也觉得25这道题应该是C，大环境。
D选项说family不是更容易跟作者反对的观点混淆吗？

jiexiaodi

能不能请nn再讲讲25题为什么选d呢？对于以上同学的意见c也不是很能理解
C.    An account of the legislative career of a con-
servative senator which showed his goals to
have been derived from a national conser-
vative movement of which the senator was
a part
这句话到底是什么意思啊，好晕阿
哪位好心的nn能解惑阿？

jessiejie

UP UP!

ozymendias

顶，是不是C啊