16(B)
主旨大意题“the main idea”
作者背景式开头介绍反面观点,进而引出William G. McLaughlin对Cherokee culture的研究“not only did Cherokee culture flourish during and after the 1820s, but the Cherokee themselves actively and continually reshaped their culture.”包括两方面:Missionaries影响,antimission Cherokee反响,以及reform的态度,最后提出his work的不足,但重点在于肯定William G. McLaughlin的功绩However, McLaughlin is undoubtedly correct in recognizing that culture is an ongoing process rather than a static entity, and he has made a significant contribution to our understanding of how Cherokee culture changed while retaining its essential identity after confronting the missionaries
选项(B)概括最为全面
“Though his work is limited in perspective, McLaughlin is substantially correct that changes in Cherokee culture in the 1820s were mediated by the Cherokee themselves rather than simply imposed by the missionaries”
17(D)
根据“the Cherokee council in the 1820s”定位原文
“In the end, McLaughlin asserts, most members of the Cherokee council, including traditionalists, supported a move which preserved many of the reforms of the part-Cherokee elite but limited the activities and influence of the missionaries and other White settlers.”
即
“Though it did not have complete autonomy in governing the Cherokee Nation, it was able to set some policies affecting the activities of White people living in tribal areas.”
18(E)
关键词句“the attitudes of traditionalist Cherokee toward the reforms”,定位原文
“In the end, McLaughlin asserts, most members of the Cherokee council, including traditionalists, supported a move which preserved many of the reforms of the part-Cherokee elite but limited the activities and influence of the missionaries and other White settlers.”
即
“They viewed the reforms as a means of preserving the Cherokee Nation and protecting it against exploitation.”
19(C)
关键词句“a contributing factor in the revival of traditional religious beliefs”,定位原文
“The missionaries’ tendency to cater to the interests of an acculturating part-Cherokee elite (who comprised the bulk of their converts) at the expense of the more traditionalist full-Cherokee majority created great intratribal tensions. As the elite initiated reforms designed to legitimize their own and the Cherokee Nation’s place in the new republic of the United States, antimission Cherokee reacted by fostering revivals of traditional religious beliefs and practices.”
即
“Missionaries unintentionally created conflict among the Cherokee by favoring the interests of the acculturating elite at the expense of the more traditionalist majority”
20(D)
题目对象“undermine McLaughlin’s account of the course of reform among the Cherokee during the 1820s”定位原文
“The missionaries’ tendency to cater to the interests of an acculturating part-Cherokee elite (who comprised the bulk of their converts) at the expense of the more traditionalist full-Cherokee majority created great intratribal tensions. As the elite initiated reforms designed to legitimize their own and the Cherokee Nation’s place in the new republic of the United States, antimission Cherokee reacted by fostering revivals of traditional religious beliefs and practices.”àreform的起因来源于missionaries’ tendencey,而选项(D)陈述相反,如果相反假设正确,那么missionaries’ tendency的起因将无效
Revivals of traditional Cherokee religious beliefs and practices began late in the eighteenth century, before the missionaries arrived
21(B)
根据“the author thinks that Cherokee acculturalization in the 1820s”提出相关信息
“Because his work concentrates on the nineteenth century, McLaughlin unfortunately overlooks earlier sources of influence, such as eighteen-century White resident traders and neighbors, thus obscuring the relative impact of the missionaries of the 1820s in contributing to both acculturalization and resistance to it among the Cherokee.”
即(B)
“may have been part of an already-existing process of acculturalization”