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Q35 to Q37:

Recent feminist scholarship con-

cerning the United States in the 1920’s

challenges earlier interpretations that

Line assessed the twenties in terms of the

(5) unkept “promises” of the women’s

suffrage movement. This new scholar-

ship disputes the long-held view that

because a women’s voting bloc did not

materialize after women gained the right

(10) to vote in 1920, suffrage failed to

produce long-term political gains for

women. These feminist scholars also

challenge the old view that pronounced

suffrage a failure for not delivering on

(15) the promise that the women’s vote

would bring about moral, corruption-

free governance. Asked whether

women’s suffrage was a failure, these

scholars cite the words of turn-of-the-

(20) century social reformer Jane Addams,

“Why don’t you ask if suffrage in

general is failing?”

In some ways, however, these

scholars still present the 1920’s as a

(25) period of decline. After suffrage, they

argue, the feminist movement lost its

cohesiveness, and gender conscious-

ness waned. After the mid-1920’s, few

successes could be claimed by fem-

(30) inist reformers: little could be seen in

the way of legislative victories.

During this decade, however, there

was intense activism aimed at achiev-

ing increased autonomy for women,

(35) broadening the spheres within which

they lived their daily lives. Women’s

organizations worked to establish

opportunities for women: they strove to

secure for women the full entitlements

(40) of citizenship, including the right to hold

office and the right to serve on juries.

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Q36:

It can be inferred that the author of the passage disagrees with the “new scholarship” mentioned in lines 6-7 regarding the

A. degree to which the “promises” of the suffrage movement remained unkept

B. degree to which suffrage for women improved the morality of governance

C. degree to which the 1920’s represented a period of decline for the feminist movement

D. degree of legislative success achieved by feminist reformers during the 1920’s

E. accuracy of the view that a women’s voting bloc did not materialize once suffrage was achieved

我选C，第三段都在谈C这个问题啊！

有人选E，请指正！

mary1

Yes, C is right.