exercise 16
If people are regarded only as machines guided by logic, as they were by some "scientistic" thinkers, rhetoric is likely to be held in low regard; for the most obvious truth about rhetoric is that it speaks to the whole person. It presents its arguments first to the person as a rational being. Logical argument is the plot, as it were, of any speech or essay that is respectfully intended to persuade people. Yet it is a characterizing feature of rhetoric that it goes beyond this and appeals to the parts of our nature that are involved in feeling, desiring, acting, and suffering. It recalls relevant instances of the emotional reactions of people to circumstances-real or fictional-that are similar to our own circumstances.
9. The passage suggests that the disparagement of
rhetoric by some people can be traced to their
(A) reaction against science
(B) lack of training in logic
(C) desire to persuade people as completely as
possible
(D) misunderstanding of the use of the term "scientistic"
(E) view of human motivation
For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply
10. Which of the following states the author's
main point about logical argument?
□A It is a sterile, abstract discipline, of little use in
real life.
□B It is an essential element of persuasive
discourse, but only one such element.
□C It is essential to persuasive discourse because it
deals with universal truths.
Students of United States history, seeking to identify the circumstances that encouraged the emergence of feminist movements, have thoroughly investigated the mid- nineteenth-century American economic and social conditions that affected the status of women. These historians, however, have analyzed less fully the development of specifically feminist ideas and activities during the same period. Furthermore, the ideological origins of feminism in the United States have been obscured because, even when historians did take into account those feminist ideas and activities occurring within the United States, they failed to recognize that feminism was then a truly international movement actually centered in Europe. American feminist activists who have been described as ―solitary‖ and ―individual theorists‖ were in reality connected to a movement—utopian socialism— which was already popularizing feminist ideas in Europe during the two decades that culminated in the first women‘s rights conference held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.
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6. According to the passage, which of the following
is true of the Seneca Falls conference on women‘s
rights?
(A) It was primarily a product of nineteenth-
century Saint-Simonian feminist thought.
(B) It was the work of American activists who
were independent of feminists abroad.
(C) It was the culminating achievement of the
utopian socialist movement.
(D) It was a manifestation of an international
movement for social change and feminism.
(E) It was the final manifestation of the women‘s
rights movement in the United States in the
nineteenth century.
这题我选的是C,感觉跟原文对应的挺不错的,但是答案选D,不知道D里面social change在哪里体现?