9510的阅读都好纠结啊，一道主旨题求助！！答案和解析都不一样我可怎么办>_<

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It is possible for students to obtain advanced degrees in English while knowing little or nothing about traditional scholarly methods. The consequences of this neglect of traditional scholarship are particularly unfortunate for the study of women writers. If the canon—the list of authors whose works are most widely taught—is ever to include more women, scholars must be well trained in historical scholarship and textual editing. Scholars who do not know how to read early manuscripts, locate rare books, establish a sequence of editions, and so on are bereft of crucial tools for revising the canon.
To address such concerns, an experimental version of the traditional scholarly methods course was designed to raise students’ consciousness about the usefulness of traditional learning for any modern critic or theorist. To minimize the artificial aspects of the conventional course, the usual procedure of assigning a large number of small problems drawn from the entire range of historical periods was abandoned, though this procedure has the obvious advantage of at least superficially familiarizing students with a wide range of reference sources. Instead students were engaged in a collective effort to do original work on a neglected eighteenth-century writer, Elizabeth Griffith, to give them an authentic experience of literary scholarship and to inspire them to take responsibility for the quality of their own work.
Griffith’s work presented a number of advantages for this particular pedagogical purpose. First, the body of extant scholarship on Griffith was so tiny that it could all be read in a day; thus students spent little time and effort mastering the literature and had a clear field for their own discoveries. Griffith’s play The Platonic Wife exists in three versions, enough to provide illustrations of editorial issues but not too many for beginning students to manage. In addition, because Griffith was successful in the eighteenth century, as her continued productivity and favorable reviews demonstrate, her exclusion from the canon and virtual disappearance from literary history also helped raise issues concerning the current canon.
The range of Griffith’s work meant that each student could become the world’s leading authority on a particular Griffith text. For example, a student studying Griffith’s Wife in the Right obtained a first edition of the play and studied it for some weeks. This student was suitably shocked and outraged to find its title transformed into A Wife in the Night in Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica. Such experiences, inevitable and common in working on a writer to whom so little attention has been paid, serve to vaccinate the student—I hope for a lifetime—against credulous use of reference sources.

17.        The author of the passage is primarily concerned with
(A) revealing a commonly ignored deficiency
(B) proposing a return to traditional terminology
(C) describing an attempt to correct a shortcoming
(D) assessing the success of a new pedagogical approach
(E) predicting a change in a traditional teaching strategy
答案选C，解析选D，还解释的好cogent>_<我倒是没觉得C对，不过我觉得B对啊
文章强调traditional terminology的重要性，重要到都需要单加一门课程来学习了，不过return又有点问题
求助！
21. Which of the following best describes the function of the last paragraph in relation to the passage as a whole?
　　(A) It summarizes the benefits that students can derive from the experimental scholarly methods course.
　　(B) It provides additional reasons why Griffith’s work raises issues having to do with the canon of authors.
　　(C) It provides an illustration of the immediate nature of the experiences students can derive from the experimental scholarly methods course.
　　(D) It contrasts the experience of a student in the experimental scholarly methods course with the experience of a student in the traditional course.
　(E) It provides information that emphasizes the suitability of Griffith’s work for inclusion in the canon of authors.
这道题A为什么不行呢？和题目的问法function有关吗？

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这里我和你的理解一点不同啊  17我觉得应该是D  然后21我觉得是C  分析文章的结构是提出问题 解决问题 证明问题 类似于美国的总分结构  而不是提出问题 解决问题  总结问题 所以我觉得21题的A是错的，并非是单纯地说传统的学术方法给学生带来的好处  倒数两段确实是讲了它的好处 但这个只是一个表象 实则是通过这个例子来说明解释传统的学术方法课程能给学生带来什么 所以我觉得A只是一个点 而C是一个面  
然后17题目你可以先看关键词动词  A是揭露 B提出 C是描述 D是评估 E是预测  根据文章的整体结构我觉得这个也只能是D了 A和E是明显的不对 C也是明显的deviation 那么B呢  明显的还是那个问题我觉得太小了 它并不能代表整个文章的中心内容。    以上仅是个人的理解 不知道答案是否正确 还望交流！多多指点啊！

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今天也做到了这篇，整个人都不好了。讨论的“experimental version of the traditional scholarly methods course”在文章里倒是说得蛮清楚的，但为什么到了题目里就各种省略，"traditional scholarly methods course"是啥？"experimental scholarly methods course"又是啥？到底哪个指的是文章里的course啊？！！

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至于LZ列出的两道题：

17)

我选了C，如果硬要说D更对，那大概是assess比describe更准确？然而我觉得D的内容有偏差，文章第一句开始就表明作者的想讨论的是“traditional scholarly methods”的重要性，里面提到的"experimental version of the traditional scholarly methods course"作为一种“pedagogical approach”是让学生去学习这个“traditional scholarly methods”的手段（整个对应选项C里的attempt）。而最终的目的是让学生认识到“traditional scholarly methods”的好处（对应选项C的correct a shortcoming）
B不对是因为"terminology"是“术语”和“术语学”的意思，和文章讨论的一点关系都没有。当然即使改成"traditional scholarly methods"我觉得还是不对的，虽然作者认为传统治学方法有好处，但并没有发现出要“退回”到这种方法的态度。

21)

这题我选了C，A主要错在summarize上，虽然最后一段谈到了一个benefit（让学生能够against credulous use of reference sources）但并不是所有的benefits。我们完全可以推断，学生在这门课上，还能够学到第一段提到的（read early manuscripts, locate rare books, establish a sequence of editions, and so on）

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第二个答案是C吗 为什么我我觉得选E。。。。