阅读大全第28篇 第六题请教~~~~~

regansun

Passage 28 (28/63)
The settlement of the United States has occupied (occupy: to engage the attention or energies of) traditional historians since 1893 when Frederick Jackson Turner developed his Frontier Thesis, a thesis that explained American development in terms of westward expansion. From the perspective of women's history, Turner's exclusively masculine assumptions constitute a major drawback: his defenders and critics alike have reconstructed men's, not women's, lives on the frontier. However, precisely because of this masculine orientation,revising the Frontier Thesis by focusing on women's experience introduces new themes into women's history-woman as lawmaker and entrepreneur-and, consequently, new interpretations of women's relationship to capital, labor, and statute.
Turner claimed that the frontier produced the individualism that is the hallmark of American culture, and that this individualism in turn promoted democratic institutions and economic equality. He argued for the frontier as an agent of social change. Most novelists and historians writing in the early to midtwentieth century who considered women in the West, when they considered women at all, fell under Turner's spell (a strong compelling influence or attraction). In their works these authors tended to glorify women's contributions to frontier life. Western women, in Turnerian tradition, were a fiercely independent, capable, and durable lot (a number of associated persons: SET), free from (free from: adv.没有...的) the constraints binding their eastern sisters. This interpretation implied that the West provided a congenial environment where women could aspire to their own goals, free from constrictive stereotypes and sexist (sexist: n.男性至上主义者) attitudes. In Turnerian terminology, the frontier had furnished “a gate of escape from the bondage of the past.”
By the middle of the twentieth century, the Frontier Thesis fell into (fall into: v.落入, 陷于(混乱,错误等)) disfavor among historians. Later, Reactionist writers took the view that frontier women were lonely, displaced persons in a hostile milieu that intensified the worst aspects of gender relations. The renaissance of the feminist movement during the 1970's led to the Stasist school, which sidestepped the good bad dichotomy and argued that frontier women lived lives similar to the live of women in the East. In one now-standard text, Faragher demonstrated the persistence of the “cult of true womanhood” and the illusionary quality of change on the westward journey. Recently the Stasist position has been revised but not entirely discounted by new research.

Which of the following best describes the organization of the passage?
(A) A current interpretation of a phenomenon is described and then ways in which it was developed are discussed.
(B) Three theories are presented and then a new hypothesis that discounts those theories is described.
(C) An important theory and its effects are discussed and then ways in which it has been revised are described.
(D) A controversial theory is discussed and then viewpoints both for and against it are described.
(E) A phenomenon is described and then theories concerning its correctness are discussed.

这一题我在C和D之间犹豫了很久，最后选择了D，结果答案是C

主要C我个人认为then ways in which it has been revised are described. 有错误 “and then" 表示于是，然后，也就是说 C的选项是说此篇文章先 discuss了effect 然后又讲了ways in which it has been revised are described

可是按照我个人对原文的理解，ways in which it has been revised are described 是定位在文章开头的第一段（本人加粗加下划线那里）

那么我觉得C选项难道不是错误地表达了 organization of the passage 吗？

对于D选项，看了论坛里许多朋友的解释，认为controversial不对，但文章最后段不是讲了 F理论后来又被后人disfaovr之类之类，讲了对于F理论的不同的评价么？

另外，文章最后段的最后句，Recently the Stasist position has been revised but not entirely discounted by new research. 里指的new research 是指什么呢？

regansun

顶一下，有朋友可以解释一下吗？？