求助一道阅读NO.6.2

ecustdreamerUID: 3396543

The historian Frederick J. Turner wrote in the 1890’s that the agrarian discontent that had been developing steadily in the United States since about 1870 had been precipitated by the closing of the internal frontier—that is, the depletion of available new land needed for further expansion of the American farming system. Not only was Turner’s thesis influential at the time, it was later adopted and elaborated by other scholars, such as John D. Hicks in The Populist Revolt (1931). Actually, however, new lands were taken up for farming in the United States throughout and beyond the nineteenth century. In the 1890’s, when agrarian discontent had become most acute, 1,100,000 new farms were settled, which was 500,000 more than had been settled during the previous decade. After 1890, under the terms of the Homestead Act and its successors, more new land was taken up for farming than had been taken up for this purpose in the United States up until that time. It is true that a high proportion of the newly farmed land was suitable only for grazing and dry farming, but agricultural practices had become sufficiently advanced to make it possible to increase the profitability of farming by utilizing even these relatively barren lands.
The emphasis given by both scholars and statesmen to the presumed disappearance of the American frontier helped to obscure the great importance of changes in the conditions and consequences of international trade that occurred during the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1869 the Suez Canal was opened and the first transcontinental railroad in the United States was completed. An extensive network of telegraph and telephone communications was spun: Europe was connected by submarine cable with the United States in 1866 and with South America in 1874. By about 1870 improvements in agricultural technology made possible the full exploitation of areas that were most suitable for extensive farming on a mechanized basis. Huge tracts of land were being settled and farmed in Argentina, Australia, Canada, and in the American West, and these areas were joined with one another and with the countries of Europe into an interdependent market system. As a consequence, agrarian depressions no longer were local or national in scope, and they struck several nations whose internal frontiers had not vanished or were not about to vanish. Between the early 1870’s and the 1890’s, the mounting agrarian discontent in America paralleled the almost uninterrupted decline in the prices of American agricultural products on foreign markets. Those staple-growing farmers in the United States who exhibited the greatest discontent were those who had become most dependent on foreign markets for the sale of their products. Insofar as Americans had been deterred from taking up new land for farming, it was because market conditions had made this period a perilous time in which to do so.


26.26.        The author implies that the cause of the agrarian discontent was

(A) masked by the vagueness of the official records on newly settled farms
(B) overshadowed by disputes on the reliability of the existing historical evidence
(C) misidentified as a result of influential but erroneous theorizing
(D) overlooked because of a preoccupation with market conditions
(E) undetected because visible indications of the cause occurred so gradually and sporadically


答案是C，Turner’s thesis influential是原话，但是后面的erroneous theorizing靠自己总结么？market conditions had made this period a perilous time in which to do so.确实可以说的通，但是考试的时间很有限，这个选项不能选的心安啊。
这题选的是抽象层面的，感觉比较麻烦，如果具体层面的是marketing的原因但是D的其他方面错了，求助这种题怎么去理解？如何规避错误答案，抽象层面的东西很飘忽，不好操作。这种选项的解题的要点是什么，有哪些需要注意的？

crazyrobinUID: 2368627

这是作者观点（态度题）
第二段第一句

The emphasis given by both scholars and statesmen to the presumed disappearance of the American frontier helped to obscure the great importance of changes in the conditions and consequences of international trade that occurred during the second half of the nineteenth century.

因此选C
这题选错说明你读原文时候读的很粗糙。作者态度题，作者观点题是第一遍时候就要读出来的。
昨天我们在群里讨论，GRE文章第一遍必须要读懂8-9成，你不需要记住细节，但你要知道说了什么事情，有什么观点，哪些例子支持哪方面观点。

这题还可以考
The author's attitude towards conventional opinion of discontent regarding the deplete of frontier land is best described as
A: Qualified enthusiasm
B: Approval
C: Suspicious

如果你文章读不懂我建议你读两遍，你文章读的很懂做题时间就少，你文章读的半懂做题时间就长，这就是这样矛盾的一件事情。阅读少定位。这是永远的真理

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crazyrobin 发表于 2013-1-30 10:07
这是作者观点（态度题）
第二段第一句

谢啦~~受教。最近读文章有点偏向记细节，感觉global的题目老是做的模棱两可，还是要专注态度