past the turn of the century应该是指1903以前. 文章的大概顺序是:1903,因为lone wolf出台, The federal government totally abandoned negotiation and execution of formal written agreements with Indian tribes as a prerequisite for the implemen- (20) tation of federal Indian policy 然后,很多评论者认为这个废除 发生在1871年,后面作者给予了反驳, 因为在世纪之交的时候, federal government continued to nego- (30) tiate formal tribal agreements 最后结论:lone wolf 结束了这个negotiation 的时代.也就是说lone wolf后,agreements 不存在了. 选 C |