GWD26-Q27

UMLwang

Q27

The passage suggests that which of the following
                best compares the economic concerns of women
                with those of men toward the close of the eighteenth
                Century in colonial Connecticut?

(A)  Both men and women had more economic
                responsibilities at the end of the century
                than they had had at the beginning of the
                century.

(B)  Women’s economic activities had become
                less varied by the end of the century;
                men’s economic activities had become
                more varied.

(C)  Women’s economic activities at the end of
                the century were similar to their activities
                at the beginning; men’s economic activities
                changed considerably.

(D)  Women’s economic concerns at the end of the century were primarily familial; men’s
                economic concerns were primarily political.

(E)   Women’s economic concerns at the end of
                the century were primarily personal; men’s
                economic needs were primarily familial.

答案是B

文章:

1.        GWD-26-Q25-Q27 18世纪妇女和男人在civil cases中的变化

In colonial Connecticut between   妇女在18世纪参与主要关于债务的官

1670 and 1719, women participated    司数量一直减少。

in one of every six civil cases, the

Line  vast majority of which were debt-

(5) related. Women’s participation

   dropped to one in ten cases after

   1719, and to one in twenty by the

   1770’s. however, as Cornelia          但是CHD在其著作中说数据是假的。

   Hughes Dayton notes in Women       妇女参与官司多了，只是男人参与的

(10) Before the Bar: Gender, Law,         官司增加更快。

and Society in Connecticut,

1639-1789, these statistics are

somewhat deceptive: in fact,

both the absolute numbers and

(15) the percentage of adult women

participating in civil cases grew

steadily throughout the eighteenth

century, but the legal activity of

men also increased dramatically,

(20) and at a much faster rate. Single,      虽然各种妇女仍像以前那样追究债务

married, and widowed women        人责任，她们的法律地位变了许多。

continued to pursue their own and

their husbands’ debtors through

legal action much as they had

(25) done in the previous century, but

despite this continuity, their place

in the legal system shifted

dramatically. Men’s commercial      男人由于拥有债权人能力，其商业利益

interests and credit networks         和信用网络越来越广泛。

(30) became increasingly far-flung,

owing in part to the ability of

creditors to buy and sell prom-

issory notes (legal promises to

pay debts). At the same time,         而妇女的信用债务网络仍主要是当地

(35) women’s networks of credit and      和私人的。

debt remained primarily local and

personal. Dayton contends that,        CHD说妇女虽然继续服务社区，但被

although still performing crucial       置于18世纪新经济与法律文化外。

economic services in their

(40) communities—services that

contributed to the commercialization

of the colonial economy—women

remained for the most part outside

the new economic and legal culture

of the eighteenth century.

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请问为什么不选C?

门萨来了

同问,我也选了C

UMLwang

but the legal activity of

men also increased dramatically,

(20) and at a much faster rate.

这里可以说明C也有道理

snowlemon

怎么感觉B,C都是对的？

SMcollapse

B,c有啥区别？

artreal

同意B。

in fact, both the absolute numbers and the percentage of adult women participating in civil cases grew steadily throughout the eighteens century.

greathit

C.

题目里面问的是economic concerns of women,这是关键所在。尽管女人参与的cases更多了，但是她们的关注点仍然是讨债-continued to pursue their own and their husbands' debtors through legan action much as they had done in the previous century!而男人呢，men's commercial interests became increasingly far-flung，他们的关注点却更为广泛。

刘丰德

B 明显错误。  因为它说    Women’s economic activities had become less varied by the end of the century。   女人的activities怎么可能变得less varied呢？ 与文章内容背道而驰

蓝山六六

B中的less varied 是错的。文中最后一句有说women remained for the most part of blablaba.... remain 说明没有变。而C选项中的similar to their activities at the beginning 正好表达了这一点。

紫竹墨香

同意C  感觉B的less varied有问题