Day 26

英文重現(xiàn)

In contrast, Buel and Buel's biography provides ample raw material for questioning the myth, fostered by some historians, of a colonial golden age in the eighteenth century but does not give the reader much guidance in analyzing the controversy over women's status.

——GMAT OG 2015, Reading Comprehension, Passage 16

解析

1.這個句子的主干部分為“Buel and Buel's biography provide sample raw material but does not give the reader much guidance”，是由“but”連接的兩個并列的句子，共用一個主語“Buel and Buel's biography”。

2.“myth”和“of a colonial golden age in the eighteenth century”之間插入了一個過去分詞結(jié)構(gòu)的后置定語“fostered by some historians”，它與“of a colonial golden age in the eighteenth century”一樣，都是作定語，對“myth”進行修飾。

詞義辨析

參考翻譯

相反，Buel和她的傳記提供了豐富的原材料，可以質(zhì)疑很多歷史學(xué)家所推崇的18世紀(jì)殖民時期的黃金時代，但是在分析有關(guān)女性地位的矛盾方面卻沒有給讀者太多的指導(dǎo)。

實戰(zhàn)演練

…Although both books offer the reader the opportunity to assess this controversy regarding women's status, only Lebsock's deals with it directly. She examines several different aspects of women's status, helping to refine and resolve the issues. She concludes that while women gained autonomy in some areas, especially in the private sphere, they lost it in many aspects of the economic sphere. More importantly, she shows that the debate itself depends on frame of reference: in many respects, women lost power in relation to men, for example, as certain jobs (delivering babies, supervising schools) were taken over by men. Yet women also gained power in comparison with their previous status, owning a higher proportion of real estate, for example. In contrast, Buel and Buel's biography provides ample raw material for questioning the myth, fostered by some historians, of a colonial golden age in the eighteenth century but does not give the reader much guidance in analyzing the controversy over women's status.

The passage suggests that Buel and Buel's biography of Mary Fish provides evidence for which of the following views of women's history?

(A) Women have lost power in relation to men since the colonial era.

(B) Women of the colonial era were not as likely to be concerned with their status as were women in the nineteenth century.

(C) The colonial era was not as favorable for women as some historians have believed.

(D) Women had more economic autonomy in the colonial era than in the nineteenth century.

(E) Women's occupations were generally more respected in the colonial era than in the nineteenth century.

答案：C

答案解析

這篇文章講的是Buel的傳記和Lebsock的作品在書寫美國婦女歷史方面的不同方法。“In contrast, Buel and Buel's biography…”之前描述的是Lebsock的方法，所以重點看“In contrast”之后的內(nèi)容。該句說“some historians foster the myth of a colonial golden age in the eighteenth century”，但是Buel和她的傳記提供了大量的原材料去“questioning the myth”，由此可以選出選項C“殖民時期并非像一些歷史學(xué)家認為的那樣對女性是有利的”（即“not a golden age”）。

其他選項的意思分別為：

A.自從殖民時期開始，女性相對于男性失去了權(quán)利。

B.殖民時期的女性不太可能像19世紀(jì)的女性那樣關(guān)注她們的地位。

D.女性在殖民時期比在19世紀(jì)時擁有了更多的經(jīng)濟自主。

E.女性的職業(yè)在殖民地時期比在19世紀(jì)時更加受到尊重。