求助某机经长阅读中的一道题

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来源两个机经（xdf&kmf），简单说一下大概就是讲的美国女性小说那篇，有一大帮人说女性小说不好，有一帮人说女性小说好，但也忽略了情节和social significance，最后B说女性小说作者不认为自己是artist然后小说读起来很让人愉悦啊什么的

By far the most popular United States literature of its time was a body of now-neglected novels written between 1820 and 1870 by, for, and about women. According to Nina Baym, who has termed this genre “woman’s fiction,” the massive popularity of these novels claimed a place for women in the writing profession. The novels chronicle the experiences of women who, beset with hardships, find within themselves qualities of intelligence, will, resourcefulness, and courage sufficient to overcome their obstacles. According to Baym, the genre began with Catharine Sedgewick’s New England Tale (1822), manifested itself as the best-selling reading matter of the American public in the unprecedented sales of Susan Warner’s Wide, Wide World (1850), and remained a dominant fictional type until after 1870. The critical, as opposed to popular, reception of these novels in their own times was mixed. Theoretical opposition by those who saw fiction as a demoralizing and corrupting influence was by no means dead in mid-nineteenth-century America, and popular successes naturally bore a significant proportion of the attack. The moralistic tone of much woman’s fiction did not placate these antagonists; on the contrary, many clerical opponents of the novel thought that women were trying to take over the clergy’s functions and hence attacked all the more fiercely. Similarly, some male authors, disgruntled by the emergence of great numbers of women writers, expressed contempt for the genre.


On the other hand, the women had a powerfully ally—their publishers, who not only put these works into print but advertised them widely and enthusiastically. Some few reviewers wrote about these works with attention and respect, distinguishing between the works of the different authors and identifying individual strengths and weaknesses. These approving contemporary critics were particularly alert to each writer’s contribution to the depiction of American social life, especially to regional differences in manners and character types. On the whole, however, even these laudatory critics showed themselves uninterested in the stories that this fiction told, or in their significance.


Baym acknowledges that these novels are telling—with variations—a single familiar tale, and correctly notes that this apparent lack of artistic innovation has been partly responsible for their author’s exclusion from the canon of classic American writers traditionally studied in university literature courses. Baym points out, however, that unlike such male contemporaries as Nathaniel Hawthorne, these women did not conceive of themselves as “artists”, but rather as professional writers with work to do and a living to be made from fulfilling an obligation to their audience. This obligation included both entertainment and instruction, which are not, says Baym, at odds with one another in these books, nor is entertainment the sweet coating on a didactic pill. Rather, the lesson itself is an entertainment: the central character’s triumph over adversity is profoundly pleasurable to those readers who identify with her.


4. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage concerning the majority of the nineteen-century reviewers of woman’s fiction?
A. They considered the position taken by the clergy in regard to woman’s fiction self-serving
B. They did not make fine distinctions between different authors
C. They placed a higher value on plot than on social significance
D. They subscribed to the view of writers as purveyors of popular entertainment rather than as artists.
E. They lacked interest in the plot and in the significance of the woman’s fiction.
（E. They regarded woman’s fiction as high as publishers did )

这道题见过两种机经，kmf的是括号里的E，两种机经的选项只有E不一样。
然而，一个答案（xdf）选E lacked interest in the plot， kmf选C They placed a higher value on plot than on social significance

按照基本的逻辑（orz）两个题选项只有E不一样，xdf的E看上去很对，但是如果这样的话kmf那题（括号的E显然不对）就没有答案了呀....但如果是kmf的答案，C不是已经被第二段加粗字驳斥了么？

所以这道题到底选啥呢QAQ
一脸懵逼，求大神们来看一下QAQ13号就要考试了，好慌

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Orion_Chang 发表于 2017-10-10 21:10
E. They lacked interest in the plot and in the significance of the woman’s fiction.

选这个

临到考试一看见错题就慌，总觉得自己哪里想的不对orz
谢谢大神！！

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我Me是个好人 发表于 2017-10-10 22:48
我决定重新思考一下这道题. 占楼.

焦虑地等待大神的结果QAQ

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我Me是个好人 发表于 2017-10-11 23:24
大神是真不敢当, 经常回答错问题倒是真的...

好了进入正题.

谢谢大佬~~明天就要考了，好虚