一个关于定位题的疑问例题

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The settlement of the Unites States has occupied traditional historians since 1893 when Frederick Jackson Turner developed his Frontier Theses, a thesis that explained American development in terms of westward expansion. From the perspective of women's history, Turner's exclusively masculine assumptions constitute a major drawback; his defenders and critics alike have reconstructed men's, not women's, lives on the frontier. However, precisely because of this masculine on orientation, revising the Frontier Thesis by focusing on women's experience introduces new themes into women's history-women as lawmaker and entrepreneur-and, consequently, new interpretations of women's relationship to capital, labor, and statute.


Turner claimed that the frontier produced the individualism that is the hallmark of American culture, and that this individualism in turn promoted democratic institutions and economic equality. He argued for the frontier as an agent of social change. Most novelists and historians writing in the early to midtwentiech century who considered women in the West, when they considered women at all, fell under Turner's spell. In their works these authors tended to glorify women's contributions to frontier life. Western women, in Turnerian tradition, were a fiercely independent, capable, and durable lot, free from the constraints binding their eastern sisters. In their works these authors tended to glorify women's contributions to frontier life. Western women, in Turnerian tradition, were a fiercely independent, capable, and durable lot, free from the constraints binding their eastern sisters. This interpretation implied that the West provided a congenial environment where women could aspire to their own goals, free from constrictive stereotypes and sexist attitudes. In Turnerian terminology, the frontier had furnished "a gate of escape from the bondage of the past."


By the middle of the twentieth century, the Frontier Thesis fell into disfavor among historians. Later, Reactionist writers took the view that frontier women were lonely, displaced persons in a hostile milieu that intensified the worst aspects of gender relations. The renaissance of the feminist movement during the 1970's led to the Stasist School, which sidestepped the good bad dichotomy and argued that frontier women lived lives similar to the lives of women in the East. In one nowstandard text, Faragher demonstrated the persistence of the "cult of true womanhood" and the illusionary quality of change on the westward journey. Recently the Stasist position has been revised but not entirely discounted by new research.

问题：2. Which of the following can be inferred about the novelists and historians mentioned in lines 19-20?(A) They misunderstood the powerful influence of constrictive stereotypes on women in the East
(B) They assumed that the frontier had offered more opportunities to women than had the East
(C) They included accurate information about women's experience on the frontier(D) They underestimated the endurance and fortitude of frontier women
(E) They agreed with some of Turner's assumptions that be made

自由的疑问：明明问题说的是定位在”the novelists and historians mentioned in lines 19-20?“的信息为答案根据点判断，可是正确答案B却是”the novelists and historians mentioned in lines 19-20?“后面好多行的内容推断出的，难道不是违反了ETS出题定位题的准确性吗？不明白，着急，谢谢大家[em24]

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是这样的，这道题我也曾错过
fell under Turner's spell
19-20包含了这句话，那么什么是Turner's spell呢
western women, in turnerian tradition, were a fiercely independent, capable, and durable lot, free from the constraints binding their eastern sisters.
也就是说，尽管 the novelists and historians mentioned in lines 19-20，但是这句话中的spell需要进一步解释。
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