Reading Comprehension
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| 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：
It can be inferred from the passage that women did work in
选项:
A、
American cheesemaking at some point prior to industrialization
B、
arable agriculture in northern England both before and after the agricultural revolution
C、
arable agriculture in southeast England after the agricultural revolution, in those locales in which cultural values supported their participation
D、
the sale of cheese at local markets in England even after the agricultural revolution
E、
some areas of American cheese dairying after industrialization
答案:
A
提问：
这个题目想要请教一下A是怎么的出来的，就是这个思考的过程，我 定位Their persistence in English cheese dairying contrasts with women's early disappearance from arable agriculture in southeast England and from American cheese dairying.然后被带到D上去了谢谢老师
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