GWD1-Q4

finnlijing

The fields of antebellum (pre-Civil War) political history and women’s history use separate sources and focus on separate issues.
Political historians, examining sources such as voting records, newspapers, and politicians’ writings, focus on the emergence in the 1840’s of a new “American political nation,” and since women were neither voters nor politicians, they receive little discussion.
Women’s historians, meanwhile, have shown little interest in the subject of party politics, instead drawing on personal papers, legal records such as wills, and records of female associations to illuminate women’s domestic lives, their moral reform activities, and the emergence of the woman’s rights movement.


However, most historians have underestimated the extent and significance of women’s political allegiance in the antebellum period.
For example, in the presidential election campaigns of the 1840’s, the Virginia Whig party strove to win the allegiance of Virginia’s women by inviting them to rallies and speeches.
According to Whig propaganda, women who turned out at the party’s rallies gathered information that enabled them to mold party-loyal families, reminded men of moral values that transcended party loyalty, and conferred moral standing on the party. Virginia Democrats, in response, began to make similar appeals to women as well.
By the mid-1850’s the inclusion of women in the rituals of party politics had become commonplace and the ideology that justified such inclusion had been assimilated by the Democrats.



The primary purpose of the passage as a whole is to

A.
examine the tactics of antebellum political parties with regard to women

B.
trace the effect of politics on the emergence of the woman’s rights movement

C.
point out a deficiency in the study of a particular historical period

D.
discuss the ideologies of opposing antebellum political parties

E.
contrast the methodologies in two differing fields of historical inquiry

请问这题为什么选C，文章哪里涉及到deficiency了，我选的A。谢谢指教

zhangmile

我也是选的A。只能这么想，第一段讲political history和women history

分别研究，各自不为所用，而第二段讲其实历史学家低估了妇女对于政治的影

响。第二段第一句应该是中心句（underestimate）。大概如果考试里看到类

似的情况，就应该看作是deficiency吧。。

ozymendias

整篇的核心词是第二段开头的However，表示作者开始提出对于第一段中两种历史学家研究方向的问题。

A的意思没问题，但是这句话的地位不够，只是第二段中的举例，因此不能作为中心思想。

finnlijing

还是不懂为啥c
b哪不对
请教大牛

leslielu

A is just the example in second paragraph and is not the primary

purpose; B is some details; D is as same as B( the correct answer

always doesn’t appear details in main/primary idea/purpose

question); E is prefer to emphasis the first paragraph; C is point

out the relationship between the two paragraph, that is to say, the

second is against the first, according to the article.
我是这么想的，不知道对不对~
╮(╯▽╰)╭我还想知道为什么我底下看答案看的挺明白，一上去做题就变得

白痴了，回头想想都不知道自己为什么会选那个答案，做阅读的时候有点儿心

急加上时间又一分一秒的流逝····这可肿么办啊···

rockstonexS

俺也是~
对答案之后回去一看文章就突然懂了~
做得时候很难判断哪个对……