When literary periods are defined on the basis of men’s writing, women’s writing must be forcibly assimilated into an irrelevant grid: a Renaissance that is not a renaissance for women, a Romantic period in which women played very little part, a modernism with which women conflict. Simultaneously, the history of women’s writing has been suppressed, leaving large, mysterious gaps in accounts of the development of various genres. Feminist criticism is beginning to correct this situation. Margaret Anne Doody, for example, suggests that during “the period between the death of Richardson and the appearance of the novels of Scott and Austen,” which has “been regarded as a dead period.” Late-eighteenth-century women writers actually developed “the paradigm for women’s fiction of the nineteenth century— something hardly less than the paradigm of the nineteenth-century novel itself.” Feminist critics have also pointed out that the twentieth-century writer Virginia Woolf belonged to a tradition other than modernism and that this tradition surfaces in her work precisely where criticism has hitherto found obscurities, evasions, implausibilities, and imperfections.
问题1:The passage suggests which of the following about Virginia Woolf’s work?
Ⅰ. Nonfeminist criticism of it has been flawed. Ⅱ. Critics have treated it as part of modernism. Ⅲ. It is based on the work of late-eighteenth- century women writers.
AⅠ only
BⅡ only
CⅠ and Ⅱ only
DⅡ and Ⅲ only
EⅠ, Ⅱ and Ⅲ
答案包涵 Ⅰ，这个我觉的不能判断啊！
问题2:The passage provides information that answers which of the following questions?
AIn what tradition do feminist critics usually place Virginia Woolf?
BWhat are the main themes of women’s fiction of the nineteenth century?
CWhat events motivated the feminist reinterpretation of literary history?
DHow has the period between Richardson’s death and Scott’s and Ansten’s novels traditionally been regarded by critics?
EHow was the development of the nineteenth- century novel affected by women’s fiction in the same century?
我们先看问题1.
首先我们要明确一点，这段文字的后半部分整体上是在对feminist critics （FC）与 non-feminist critics（NFC）进行对比，表现FC对NFC的一种挑战。因此，对FC的态度进行取非则可以得到NFC的态度。
既然FC指出，Virginia Woolf belonged to a tradition other than modernism，这说明之前NFC对VW的划分是错误的，因此 I 应该选，这也与II的逻辑相对应。
然后是问题2.
文章只说明了FC认为VW属于tradition, 但是没有指出具体是哪个tradition，因此不选A
而选项D对应文中"the period between the death of Richardson and the appearance of the novels of Scott and Austen,” which has “been regarded as a dead period.” 简单来说，就是：the period between the death of Richardson and the novels of Scott and Austen has been regarded as a dead period. 所以要选D