标题: OG BERBAL RC 29 [打印本页] 作者: zhuxiaocao 时间: 2012-8-31 06:36 标题: OG BERBAL RC 29
Line The new school of political history that emerged in the 1960sand 1970s sought to go beyond the traditional focus of political historians on
leaders and government institutions by examining directly
(5) the political practices of ordinary citizens.Likethe old approach, however, this new approach excluded women. Theverytechniquesthesehistoriansused to uncover mass political behavior in the nineteenth century United States-quantitative analysesof
(10) election returns,forexample-were uselessin analyzingthepolitical activitiesof women, who were denied the vote until 1920.
By
redefining "political activity," historian Paula Baker has developed a political history that includes
(15)
women. She concludes that among ordinary citizens, political activism by women in the nineteenth century prefigured trends in twentieth century politics. Defining "politics" as "any action taken to affect the course of behavior of
(20) government or of the community," Baker concludes that, while voting and holding office were restricted tomen,women inthe nineteenth century organized themselves intosocietiescommittedto social issues such astemperance and poverty. In other
(25) words,Bakercontends,womenactivistswere early practitionersof nonpartisan, issue-orientedpolitics and thus were more interested in enlisting lawmakers,regardless oftheirpartyaffiliation,on behalf of certain issues than in ensuring that one
(30) partyor anotherwonanelection.Inthetwentieth century, more men drew closer to women's ideas about politics and took up modes of issue-oriented politics that Baker sees women as having pioneered.
29.
It can be inferred that the author of the passage quotes Baker directly in the second paragraph primarily in
order to
(A) clarifyaposition before providing an alternative to that position
(B)
differentiate between a novel definition and traditional definitions
(C) provide an example of a point agreed on by different
generations of scholars
(D) provide an exampleoftheprosestyleof an
important historian
E)amplify a definition given in the first paragraph
这道题的答案是B，对于这类文章的结构有个问题
文章的首段介绍了两种观点The new school of political history that emerged in the 1960sand 1970s 和old approach
下一段又引出了
historian Paula Baker 的观点
像这样文章总共介绍了三种观点的的情况，题目问引出Paula Baker观点的作用，B选项说的是
differentiate between a novel definition and traditional definitions。作者的 novel definition , traditional definitions 分别指的是什么呢？
lz 看一下 og后面关于29题的解释 第二、三句。
The historians discussed in the first paragraph define political activity as voting.
Paula Baker, however, has a new definition of political activity, one that includes the activities of
those who were not allowed to vote.(其实 就是 指代 女性)
