各位NN，请教prepT1——5essay一道题

james2201

Historians have identified two dominant currents in the Russian women's movement of the late tsarist period.  "Bourgeois" feminism, so called by its more radical opponents, emphasized "individualist" feminist goals such as access to education, career opportunities, and legal equality.  "Socialist" feminists, by contrast, emphasized class, rather than gender, as the principal source of women's inequality and oppression, and socialist revolution, not legal reform, as the only road to emancipation and equality.
However, despite antagonism between bourgeois feminists and socialist feminists, the two movements shared certain underlying beliefs.  Both regarded paid labor as the principal means by which women might attain emancipation:  participation in the workplace and economic self-sufficiency, they believed, would make women socially useful and therefore deserving of equality with men.  Both groups also recognized the enormous difficulties women faced when they combined paid labor with motherhood.  In fact, at the First All-Russian Women's Congress in 1908, most participants advocated maternity insurance and paid maternity leave, although the intense hostility between some socialists and bourgeois feminists at the Congress made it difficult for them to recognize these areas of agreement.  Finally, socialist feminists and most bourgeois feminists concurred in subordinating women's emancipation to what they considered the more important goal of liberating the entire Russian population from political oppression, economic backwardness, and social injustice.


The passage is primarily concerned with
(A)    identifying points of agreement between two groups
(B)    advocating one approach to social reform over another
(C)    contrasting two approaches to solving a political problem
(D)    arguing that the views espoused by one political group were more radical than those espoused by another group
(E)    criticizing historians for overlooking similarities between the views espoused by two superficially dissimilar groups

这是一到主旨题，现在做prep，感觉主旨题比OG难。不知道原因为啥？以此题为例。
看manhattan RC说主旨题要符合全文每一部分。但是这道只说了第二段内容。
这有点像目的题。但题中问的是主旨
正确答案是A
但是我觉得C说的approaches 可能有点牵强，但是我感觉A不应该对。
请解释一下这道题我思路哪里偏？
期待大侠出现！

starry1008

这题的确有点难度嘿嘿！但是LZ要注意说文章的每一个部分都要说到其实这个挺有讲究的,LZ可以通读全文注意一下关键词，这篇文章其实怎么说，有种先抑后扬的基调，属于比较难的篇目，第一段说出不同强调第二段的相同点，而第二段后半部分又说实现某个政治东东有点困难，！但是，最后并不阻止他们concur！！这个是关键，有种让步状语从句的味道，没数错的话第二段一共有2个both一个concur，所以，LZ慢慢体会下，个人觉得这种文章很拉分

starry1008

补充一下，注意however，despite，还有although。。尤其是however。。。however前面说的是不同点，后面说的是相同点，LZ应该看过很多材料都有说however后面的东西才是重点，其实LZ找准关键字这篇文章还是不难的

james2201

总之答案很别扭，但是也没得选，谢谢点播，
最好的就是正确的

cherryserena

我的思路是
第一段介绍在某一个问题上B和S两个流派。
第二段B和S在三个方面上体现相识性。
The passage is primarily concerned with
(A)    identifying points of agreement between two groups
(B)    advocating one approach to social reform over another
(C)    contrasting two approaches to solving a political problem
(D)    arguing that the views espoused by one political group were more radical than those espoused by another group
(E)    criticizing historians for overlooking similarities between the views espoused by two superficially dissimilar groups
LZ 说的MAHATTAN的做主旨题的观点是对的，这一题也不例外。
（以下只是针对楼主的问题的答案解释）
A；包含第一段的B和S(TWO GROUPS),为什么这么说不算牵强呢？因为想想第一段其实其他东西没介绍，就是让我们知道有B和S两个流派之分。
B；问题不在approach，其实在GMAT文章中way, shool, approach, genre意思相近。而问题在于advocate。注意像这种词那是百分百不能与原文意图有偏差的。文章没有强调B与S的谁over谁。
C；solving a politiacal problem? 没有。作者只是state了这么B与S之间的相识点这么个facts
恕在下愚见！交流交流lol

james2201

谢谢，祝杀G成功！

carolynwinwin

However, despite antagonism between bourgeois feminists and socialist feminists, the two movements shared certain underlying beliefs.

这句话多明显呀，一看就是就知道作者是想说相同点呀。

C.contrasting two approaches to solving a political problem. 这里有什么政治难题呀。