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[Reading Comprehension]
试题详情
文章：
| Line | In current historiography, the picture of a consistent, |
| unequivocal decline in women’s status with the advent | |
| of capitalism and industrialization is giving way to an | |
| analysis that not only emphasizes both change (whether | |
| (5) | improvement or decline) and continuity but also |
| accounts for geographical and occupational variation. | |
| The history of women’s work in English farmhouse | |
| cheese making between 1800 and 1930 is a case in | |
| point. In her influential Women Workers and the Industrial | |
| (10) | Revolution (1930), Pinchbeck argued that the agricultural |
| revolution of the eighteenth and early nineteenth | |
| centuries, with its attendant specialization and enlarged | |
| scale of operation, curtailed women’s participation in | |
| the business of cheese production. Earlier, she | |
| (15) | maintained, women had concerned themselves with |
| feeding cows, rearing calves, and even selling the | |
| cheese in local markets and fairs. Pinchbeck thought | |
| that the advent of specialization meant that women’s | |
| work in cheese dairying was reduced simply to | |
| (20) | processing the milk. “Dairymen” (a new social category) |
| raised and fed cows and sold the cheese through | |
| factors, who were also men. With this narrowing of the | |
| scope of work, Pinchbeck believed, women lost | |
| business ability, independence, and initiative. | |
| (25) | Though Pinchbeck portrayed precapitalist, |
| preindustrial conditions as superior to what followed, | |
| recent scholarship has seriously questioned the notion | |
| of a golden age for women in precapitalist society. For | |
| example, scholars note that women’s control seldom | |
| (30) | extended to the disposal of the proceeds of their |
| work. In the case of cheese, the rise of factors may | |
| have compromised women’s ability to market cheese | |
| at fairs. But merely selling the cheese did not | |
| necessarily imply access to the money: Davidoff cites | |
| (35) | the case of an Essex man who appropriated all but a |
| fraction of the money from his wife’s cheese sales. | |
| By focusing on somewhat peripheral operations, | |
| moreover, Pinchbeck missed a substantial element | |
| of continuity in women’s participation: throughout the | |
| (40) | period women did the central work of actually |
| making cheese. Their persistence in English cheese | |
| dairying contrasts with women’s early disappearance | |
| from arable agriculture in southeast England and | |
| from American cheese dairying. Comparing these | |
| (45) | three divergent developments yields some reasons |
| for the differences among them. English cheese- | |
| making women worked in a setting in which cultural | |
| values, agricultural conditions, and the nature of | |
| their work combined to support their continued | |
| (50) | participation. In the other cases, one or more of |
| these elements was lacking. |
题目：
The passage describes the work of Pinchbeck primarily in order to
选项:
A、demonstrate that some of the conclusions reached by recent historians were anticipated in earlier scholarship
B、provide an instance of the viewpoint that, according to the passage’s author, is being superseded
C、illustrate the ways in which recent historians have built on the work of their predecessors
D、provide a point of reference for subsequent scholarship on women’s work during the agricultural revolution
E、show the effect that the specialization introduced in the agricultural and industrial revolutions had on women’s work
答案:
B
提问：
请问这道题D选项 a point of reference 的意思是参考的观点的意思吗，所以更多是顺承的感觉而非驳斥的感觉，所以错？虽然我一开始读的时候觉得D选项的意思是给了这样一个可供参考的例子，以便后文（驳斥的时候）引用
解答：
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提问：
请问这道题D选项 a point of reference 的意思是参考的观点的意思吗，所以更多是顺承的感觉而非驳斥的感觉，所以错？虽然我一开始读的时候觉得D选项的意思是给了这样一个可供参考的例子，以便后文（驳斥的时候）引用
解答：
点赞1
阅读145
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