Reading Comprehension
试题详情
文章：
| Line | Two works published in 1984 demonstrate |
| contrasting approaches to writing the history of | |
| United States women. Buel and Buel’s biography | |
| of Mary Fish (1736–1818) makes little effort to | |
| (5) | place her story in the context of recent |
| historiography on women. Lebsock, meanwhile, | |
| attempts not only to write the history of women in | |
| one southern community, but also to redirect two | |
| decades of historiographical debate as to | |
| (10) | whether women gained or lost status in the |
| nineteenth century as compared with the | |
| eighteenth century. Although both books offer the | |
| reader the opportunity to assess this controversy | |
| regarding women’s status, only Lebsock’s deals with | |
| (15) | 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 | |
| (20) | 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 | |
| (25) | 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 | |
| (30) | 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. |
题目：
The author of the passage mentions the supervision of schools primarily in order to
选项:
A、remind readers of the role education played in the cultural changes of the nineteenth century in the United States
B、suggest an area in which nineteenth-century American women were relatively free to exercise power
C、provide an example of an occupation for which accurate data about women’s participation are difficult to obtain
D、speculate about which occupations were considered suitable for United States women of the nineteenth century
E、illustrate how the answers to questions about women’s status depend on particular contexts
答案:
E
