再问no.阅读中95, session2的一题

sunyuezhu199003UID: 3145364

In eighteenth-century France and England, re-
formersrallied around egalitarian ideals, but few
reformersadvocated higher education for women.
Althoughthe public decried women’s lack of educa-
tion,it did not encourage learning for its own sake for
women.In spite of the general prejudice against
learnedwomen, there was one place where women
couldexhibit their erudition: the literary salon. Many
writershave defined the woman’s role in the salon as
thatof an intelligent hostess, but the salon had more
thana social function for women. It was an informal
university,too, where women exchanged ideas with
educatedpersons, read their own works and heard
thoseof others, and received and gave criticism.
In the 1750’s, when salons were firmly established
inFrance, some English women, who called
themselves“Bluestocking,” followed the example of
the salonnieres (French salon hostesses) andformed
theirown salons. Most Bluestockings did not wish to
mirrorthe salonnieres; they simply desiredto adapt a
provenformula to their own purpose—the elevation
ofwomen’s status through moral and intellectual
training.Differences in social orientation and back-
groundcan account perhaps for differences in the
natureof French and English salons. The French
salonincorporated aristocratic attitudes that exalted
courtlypleasure and emphasized artistic accomplish-
ments.The English Bluestockings, originating from a
moremodest background, emphasized learning and
workover pleasure. Accustomed to the regimented life
of court circles, salonnieres tended toward formality
intheir salons. The English women, though somewhat
puritanical,were more casual in their approach.
At first, the Bluestockings did imitate the
salonnieres by including men in theircircles. However,
asthey gained cohesion, the Bluestockings came to
regardthemselves as a women’s group and to possess
asense of female solidarity lacking in the salonnieres,
whoremained isolated from one another by the

primacy each held in her own salon. Inan atmosphere
ofmutual support, the Bluestockings went beyond the
salonexperience. They traveled, studied, worked,
wrotefor publication, and by their activities chal-
lengedthe stereotype of the passive woman. Although
the salonnieres were aware of sexualinequality, the
narrowboundaries of their world kept their intel-
lectualpursuits within conventional limits. Many
salonnieres, in fact, camouflaged theirnontraditional
activitiesbehind the role of hostess and deferred to
menin public.
   Though the Bluestockings were trailblazers when
compared with the salonnieres, they were not femi-
nists. They were too traditional, too hemmed in by
their generation to demand social and politicalrights.
Nonetheless, in their desire for education, theirwill-
ingness to go beyond the confines of the salon in
pursuing their interests, and their championing of
unity among women, the Bluestockings began the
process of questioning women’s role in society.


22.Which of the following could best be considered

a twentieth-century counterpartof an eighteenth

century literary salon as it isdescribed in the

passage?
(A) A social sorority
(B) A community center
(C) A lecture course on art
(D) A humanities study group
(E) An association of moral reformers


答案为b， 请问如何定位，全文都没有提到关于“twentieth-century counterpart”的内容啊？


谢谢！

dandelionttUID: 2852417

同学，你没有理解题目的意思啊，题目是问你18世纪的沙龙与20世纪的什么东西类比最合适，你的定位应该是沙龙的那些最显著的特点，然后再再答案中需找具有这些特点的事物。

sunyuezhu199003UID: 3145364

哦， 哈哈，我想成了which is considered as the best to describe a twentieth-century literacy salon? 所以我还想，应该有个对比啊，可以文章都是french and british的对比，呵呵，抱歉抱歉！