GWD-29-Q3-Q6

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GWD-29-Q3-Q6
In a 1984 book, Claire C. Robertson argued that,before colonialism, age was
Line a more important indicator (5) of status and authority than gender in Ghana and in Africa generally. British colonialism imposed European-style male-(10) dominant notions upon more egalitarian local situations to the detriment of women generally, and gender became a defining(15) characteristic that weakened women’s power and authority.

Subsequent research in Kenya convinced Robertson (20) that she had overgeneralized about Africa. Before colonialism, gender was more salient in central Kenya than it was in Ghana, although age (25) was still crucial in determining authority. In contrast with Ghana, where women had traded for hundreds of years and achieved legal majority (30) (not unrelated phenomena), the evidence regarding central Kenya indicated that women were legal minors and were sometimes treated (35) as male property, as were European women at that time. Factors like strong patrilinearity and patrilocality, as well as women’s inferior (40) land rights and lesser involvement in trade, made women more dependent on men than was generally the case in Ghana. However,(45) since age apparently remained the overriding principle of social organization in central Kenya, some senior women had much (50) authority. Thus, Robertson revised her hypothesis somewhat, arguing that in determining authority in precolonial Africa age was a(55) primary principle that super-seded gender to varying degrees depending on the situation.
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8. GWD29-Q5:
The passage suggests that after conducting the research mentioned in line 18, but not before,
Robertson would have agreed with which of the following about women’s status and authority in Ghana?
A. Greater land rights and greater involvement in trade made women in precolonial Ghana less dependent on men than were European women at that time.
A. Colonialism had a greater impact on the status and authority of Ghanaian women than on Kenyan women.
B. Colonialism had less of an impact on the status and authority of Ghanaian women that it had on the status and authority of other African women.
C. The relative independence of Ghanaian women prior to colonialism was unique in Africa.
D. Before colonialism, the status and authority of Ghanaian women was similar to that of Kenyan women.
给的答案是b可是我觉得选c

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9. GWD29-Q6:
The author of the passage mentions the status of age as a principle of social organization in precolonial central Kenya in lines 24-26 most likely in order to
A. indicate that women’s dependence on men in precolonial Kenya was not absolute
B. contrast the situation of senior women to that of less senior women in precolonial Kenyan society
C. differentiate between the status and authority of precolonial Kenyan women and that of precolonial Ghanaian women
D. explain why age superseded gender to a greater extent in precolonial Kenya than it did elsewhere in Africa
E. identify a factor that led Robertson to revise her hypothesis about precolonial Africa
答案是e可是我觉得应该是A

请各位指点...

NicoleYu

该题问的是“改变以后的想法”只有B才是真理

A的内容虽然是对，但是一直都存在，不存在改变不改变

bigpig

今天也在钻研这篇阅读，觉得暴难啊～

这道题的定位：

8-10：British colonialism imposed European-s ...
蜂鸣 发表于 2010-3-29 11:00

    翻译一下就是

1。殖民主义开始后，殖民主义带来性别影响

2。在殖民主义前，性别影响在kenya比在ghana更严重

1+2怎么得出，殖民主义带来的性别影响在ghana比在kenya更严重（即B）

蜂鸣

今天也在钻研这篇阅读，觉得暴难啊～

这道题的定位：

8-10：British colonialism imposed European-style male- (10)  dominant notions upon more egalitarian local situations to the detriment of women generally, and gender became a defining (15)  characteristic that weak-ened women’s power and authority. 说明是在colonialism开始之后，以男性为中心的理念在非洲开始替代相较平等的概念，从而使gender成为削弱妇女权力的决定性特征。（大概是这个意思，凑合看吧）

20-25：Before colonialism, gender was more salient in central Kenya than it was in Ghana, 说明在colonialism之前，gender本身的salience在kenya》在ghana

综合上述，所以得到B