GWD 21-Q15 to Q18:

      In her account of unmarried

       women’s experiences in colonial

       Philadelphia, Wulf argues that edu-

Line       cated young women, particularly

  (5)      Quakers, engaged in resistance to

patriarchal marriage by exchanging

poetry critical of marriage, copying

verse into their commonplace

books.  Wulf suggests that this

 (10)      critique circulated beyond the

daughters of the Quaker elite

and middle class, whose com-

monplace books she mines,

proposing that Quaker schools

 (15)      brought it to many poor female

students of diverse backgrounds.

      Here Wulf probably overstates

Quaker schools’ impact.  At least

three years’ study would be

 (20)      necessary to achieve the literacy

       competence necessary to grapple

       with the material she analyzes.

In 1765, the year Wulf uses to

demonstrate the diversity of

 (25)      Philadelphia’s Quaker schools,

128 students enrolled in these

schools.  Refining Wulf’s numbers

by the information she provides

on religious affiliation, gender, and

 (30)      length of study, it appears that only

about 17 poor non-Quaker girls

were educated in Philadelphia’s

       Quaker schools for three years or

longer.  While Wulf is correct that

 (35)    a critique of patriarchal marriage

circulated broadly, Quaker schools

probably cannot be credited with

instilling these ideas in the lower

      classes.  Popular literary satires

 (40)     on marriage had already landed

on fertile ground in a multiethnic

population that embodied a wide

range of marital beliefs and

practices.  These ethnic- and

 (45)      class-based traditions them-

selves challenged the legitimacy

of patriarchal marriage.

Q17:

The author of the passage implies which of the following about the poetry mentioned in the first paragraph?

1. Wulf exaggerates the degree to which young women from an elite background regarded the poetry as providing a critique of marriage.
2. The circulation of the poetry was confined to young Quaker women.
3. Young women copied the poetry into their commonplace books because they interpreted it as providing a desirable model of unmarried life.
4. The poetry’s capacity to influence popular attitudes was restricted by the degree of literacy necessary to comprehend it.
5. The poetry celebrated marital beliefs and practices that were in opposition to patriarchal marriage.

that educated young women, particularly Quakers, engaged in resistance to patriarchal marriage by....

然后C是说这些女人是因为 they interpreted it as providing a desirable model of unmarried life.

但是原文没说这些人持有了unmarried life的想法，这些critique只是反对家长制的婚姻。

所以我觉得E好像更有道理，就是这些女人抱有的婚姻观是和家长制婚姻相反的。。。

不知道这样解释对不对。。。达人分析下。。。

这题我也看了很久,怎么看都觉得D是无关的，我选E

有哪位NN能指点一下啊?????

D的出处

At least three years’ study would be necessary to achieve the literacy competence necessary to grapple with the material she analyzes

E没提到poetry celebrated marital beliefs and practices

哎~我也做错了