According to the passage, within the field of educational history, Thomas Woody’s 1929 work was
innovative because it relied on newspaper advertisements as evidence
exceptional in that it concentrated on the period before the American Revolution
unusual in that it focused on educational attitudes rather than on educational practices
controversial in its claims regarding educational opportunities for boys
atypical in that it examined the education of girls
答案是B，但我认为应是E。下面是原文
Introduction of the republican moth-
erhood thesis dramatically changed
historiography. Prior to Kerber’s work,
educational historians barely mentioned
women and girls; Thomas Woody’s 1929
(25) work is the notable exception. Examining
newspaper advertisements for acade-
mies, Woody found that educational
opportunities increased for both girls
and boys around 1750.
划线部分中用了“；”，说明其前后部分是并列关系，后面说明前面。
且题干是according to ----- 说明答案可以从文中直接得出，不用推导，而B多少含有了推导的意味。
我的想法，不知是否正确，请NN指教，谢谢！！ | 
