When the history of women
罗斯福夫人在历史学家和公众里知
began to receive focused attention
名度很高。
in the 1970’, Eleanor Roosevelt Line was one of a handful of female
(5) Americans who were well known
to both historians and the general public. Despite the evidence that
尽管她在丈夫当选总统前在社会改革
she had been important in social-
圈子里是重要的,和她与丈夫持不同
reform circles before her husband
意见,她存在公众的想象中,还是因
(10) was elected President and that
她是总统夫人。
she continued to advocate differ- ent causes than he did, she held a place in the public imagination largely because she was the wife (15) of a particularly influential Presi- dent. Her own activities were seen as preparing the way for her
她做的被看作是为丈夫而做的。
husband’s election or as a com- plement to his programs. Even
Lash的两本书也是这样认为。
(20) Joseph Lash’s two volumes of Sympathetic biography, Eleanor and Franklin (1971) and Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972), reflected this assumption. (25)
Lash’s biography revealed a
L的传记把夫人写成一个复杂的女人, Complicated woman who sought
通过政治运动逃避内心痛苦和追求她
Through political activity both to
热切相信的理想。但是夫人仍是一个
flee inner misery and to promote
特殊人物、国母、忙人,而非社会
causes in which she passionately
典型。
(30) believed. However, she still appeared to be an idiosyncratic figure, somehow self-generated not amenable to any generalized explanation. She emerged from (35) the biography as a mother to the entire nation, or as a busybody. but hardly as a social type, a figure comprehensible in terms of broader social developments. (40)
But more recent work on the feminism of the post-suffrage years (following 1920) allows us to see Roosevelt in a different light and to bring her life into a (45) more richly detailed context. Lois
而S的书描述了拥有特权的一代女人
Scharf’s Eleanor Roosevelt, written
In 1987, depicts a generation of Privileged women, born in the late Nineteenth century and maturing (50) in the twentieth, who made the
她们从旧的妇女协会转变到新的协会
transition from old patterns of female association to new ones. Their views and their lives were full
她们的观点和生活充满矛盾。
Of contradictions. They maintained
她们维持社会网络但开始融入主流
(55) female social networks but began
政治;
to integrate women into mainstream politics; they demanded equal
她们既要求平等对待又提出母性义务
treatment but also argued that
观点。
women’s maternal responsibilities (60) made them both wards and repre- sentatives of the public interest. Thanks to Scharf and others,
S和其他人让总统夫人所作的事在社
Roosevelt’s activities—for exam-
会背景下更易被理解,而不是一个
ple, her support both for labor laws
名人的夫人的独特事业。
(65) protecting women and for appoint- ments of women to high public office—have become intelligible in terms of this social context rather than as the idiosyncratic career of a famous man’s wife.
Q 25: Which of the following studies would proceed in a
way most similar to the way in which, according to the passage. Scharf’s book interprets Eleanor
Roosevelt’s career? A.
An exploration of the activities of a wealthy
social reformer in terms of the ideals held
by the reformer
B.
A history of the leaders of a political party
which explained how the conflicting aims
of its individual leaders thwarted and
diverted the activities of each leader
C.
An account of the legislative career of a conservative senator which showed his goals to
have been derived from a national conservative movement of which the senator was
a part
D.
A biography of a famous athlete which
explained her high level of motivation in terms
of the kind of family in which she grew up
E.
A history of the individuals who led the movement to end slavery in the United States which
attributed the movement’s success to the
efforts of those exceptional individuals
不明白为什么为什么是D~~~求助~~~ |