Reading Comprehension
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| Line | Jacob Burckhardt’s view that Renaissance |
| European women “stood on a footing of perfect | |
| equality” with Renaissance men has been repeatedly | |
| cited by feminist scholars as a prelude to their | |
| (5) | presentation of rich historical evidence of women’s |
| inequality. In striking contrast to Burckhardt, Joan | |
| Kelly in her famous 1977 essay, “Did Women Have | |
| a Renaissance?” argued that the Renaissance was | |
| a period of economic and social decline for women | |
| (10) | relative both to Renaissance men and to medieval |
| women. Recently, however, a significant trend | |
| among feminist scholars has entailed a rejection | |
| of both Kelly’s dark vision of the Renaissance and | |
| Burckhardt’s rosy one. Many recent works by these | |
| (15) | scholars stress the ways in which differences |
| among Renaissance women—especially in terms | |
| of social status and religion—work to complicate | |
| the kinds of generalizations both Burckhardt and | |
| Kelly made on the basis of their observations about | |
| (20) | upper-class Italian women. |
| The trend is also evident, however, in works | |
| focusing on those middle- and upper-class | |
| European women whose ability to write gives them | |
| disproportionate representation in the historical | |
| (25) | record. Such women were, simply by virtue of |
| their literacy, members of a tiny minority of the | |
| population, so it is risky to take their descriptions of | |
| their experiences as typical of “female experience” | |
| in any general sense. Tina Krontiris, for example, in | |
| (30) | her fascinating study of six Renaissance women |
| writers, does tend at times to conflate “women” and | |
| “women writers,” assuming that women’s gender, | |
| irrespective of other social differences, including | |
| literacy, allows us to view women as a homogeneous | |
| (35) | social group and make that group an object of |
| analysis. Nonetheless, Krontiris makes a significant | |
| contribution to the field and is representative of | |
| those authors who offer what might be called a | |
| cautiously optimistic assessment of Renaissance | |
| (40) | women’s achievements, although she also stresses |
| the social obstacles Renaissance women faced | |
| when they sought to raise their “oppositional | |
| voices.” Krontiris is concerned to show women | |
| intentionally negotiating some power for themselves | |
| (45) | (at least in the realm of public discourse) against |
| potentially constraining ideologies, but in her sober | |
| and thoughtful concluding remarks, she suggests | |
| that such verbal opposition to cultural stereotypes | |
| was highly circumscribed; women seldom attacked | |
| (50) | the basic assumptions in the ideologies that |
| oppressed them. |
题目：
According to the passage, feminist scholars cite Burckhardt’s view of Renaissance women primarily for which of the following reasons?
选项:
A、Burckhardt’s view forms the basis for most arguments refuting Kelly’s point of view.
B、Burckhardt’s view has been discredited by Kelly.
C、Burckhardt’s view is one that many feminist scholars wish to refute.
D、Burckhardt’s work provides rich historical evidence of inequality between Renaissance women and men.
E、Burckhardt’s work includes historical research supporting the arguments of the feminist scholars.
答案:
C
提问：
听了录音感觉讲的还是不清楚，想问Tina老师，K不就是这些scholars中的一个例子吗？怎么再找他们的不同呢？而且第二段第一句话也说了，这个trend focus的是上层和中产女性，不也是只关注了特定的一个group吗？K研究的是女作家，也是一个特定的group，这不是区别呀。谢谢老师
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