求助某机经长阅读中的一道题

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来源两个机经（xdf&kmf），简单说一下大概就是讲的美国女性小说那篇，有一大帮人说女性小说不好，有一帮人说女性小说好，但也忽略了情节和social significance，最后B说女性小说作者不认为自己是artist然后小说读起来很让人愉悦啊什么的

By far the most popular United States literature of its time was a body of now-neglected novels written between 1820 and 1870 by, for, and about women. According to Nina Baym, who has termed this genre “woman’s fiction,” the massive popularity of these novels claimed a place for women in the writing profession. The novels chronicle the experiences of women who, beset with hardships, find within themselves qualities of intelligence, will, resourcefulness, and courage sufficient to overcome their obstacles. According to Baym, the genre began with Catharine Sedgewick’s New England Tale (1822), manifested itself as the best-selling reading matter of the American public in the unprecedented sales of Susan Warner’s Wide, Wide World (1850), and remained a dominant fictional type until after 1870. The critical, as opposed to popular, reception of these novels in their own times was mixed. Theoretical opposition by those who saw fiction as a demoralizing and corrupting influence was by no means dead in mid-nineteenth-century America, and popular successes naturally bore a significant proportion of the attack. The moralistic tone of much woman’s fiction did not placate these antagonists; on the contrary, many clerical opponents of the novel thought that women were trying to take over the clergy’s functions and hence attacked all the more fiercely. Similarly, some male authors, disgruntled by the emergence of great numbers of women writers, expressed contempt for the genre.


On the other hand, the women had a powerfully ally—their publishers, who not only put these works into print but advertised them widely and enthusiastically. Some few reviewers wrote about these works with attention and respect, distinguishing between the works of the different authors and identifying individual strengths and weaknesses. These approving contemporary critics were particularly alert to each writer’s contribution to the depiction of American social life, especially to regional differences in manners and character types. On the whole, however, even these laudatory critics showed themselves uninterested in the stories that this fiction told, or in their significance.


Baym acknowledges that these novels are telling—with variations—a single familiar tale, and correctly notes that this apparent lack of artistic innovation has been partly responsible for their author’s exclusion from the canon of classic American writers traditionally studied in university literature courses. Baym points out, however, that unlike such male contemporaries as Nathaniel Hawthorne, these women did not conceive of themselves as “artists”, but rather as professional writers with work to do and a living to be made from fulfilling an obligation to their audience. This obligation included both entertainment and instruction, which are not, says Baym, at odds with one another in these books, nor is entertainment the sweet coating on a didactic pill. Rather, the lesson itself is an entertainment: the central character’s triumph over adversity is profoundly pleasurable to those readers who identify with her.


4. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage concerning the majority of the nineteen-century reviewers of woman’s fiction?
A. They considered the position taken by the clergy in regard to woman’s fiction self-serving
B. They did not make fine distinctions between different authors
C. They placed a higher value on plot than on social significance
D. They subscribed to the view of writers as purveyors of popular entertainment rather than as artists.
E. They lacked interest in the plot and in the significance of the woman’s fiction.
（E. They regarded woman’s fiction as high as publishers did )

这道题见过两种机经，kmf的是括号里的E，两种机经的选项只有E不一样。
然而，一个答案（xdf）选E lacked interest in the plot， kmf选C They placed a higher value on plot than on social significance

按照基本的逻辑（orz）两个题选项只有E不一样，xdf的E看上去很对，但是如果这样的话kmf那题（括号的E显然不对）就没有答案了呀....但如果是kmf的答案，C不是已经被第二段加粗字驳斥了么？

所以这道题到底选啥呢QAQ
一脸懵逼，求大神们来看一下QAQ13号就要考试了，好慌

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E. They lacked interest in the plot and in the significance of the woman’s fiction.

选这个


机经里错误还是有一些的，应该带着批判性思维去做。

当你能错误排除掉他给出的正确答案的时候，就该有点自信，不要再去纠结。

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Orion_Chang 发表于 2017-10-10 21:10
E. They lacked interest in the plot and in the significance of the woman’s fiction.

选这个

临到考试一看见错题就慌，总觉得自己哪里想的不对orz
谢谢大神！！

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我决定重新思考一下这道题. 占楼.

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我Me是个好人 发表于 2017-10-10 22:48
我决定重新思考一下这道题. 占楼.

焦虑地等待大神的结果QAQ

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透明123 发表于 2017-10-11 21:09
焦虑地等待大神的结果QAQ

:lol大神是真不敢当, 经常回答错问题倒是真的...

好了进入正题.
之前帮版友分析过这道题, 当时见到的E还是括号里的, 但E在原文中完全找不到support, 最后分析下来选了(我个人认为)“最接近正确”的B. 当时的思路是这样的:

还是先回原文定位
1 Some few reviewers wrote about these works with attention and respect, distinguishing between the works of the different authors and identifying individual strengths and weaknesses.
这句话的意思说, 只有少数评论家才会认真对待这些女性小说(然后给出细节), 比如区分不同作家的作品, 并分析其优缺点. some few就是少数的意思.
2 These approving contemporary critics were particularly alert to each writer’s contribution to the depiction of American social life, especially to regional differences in manners and character types.
然后, 这些支持者们对每位作家对美国社会生活(尤其是地域差别)的描述所做的贡献十分关切.
3 On the whole, however, even these laudatory critics showed themselves uninterested in the stories that this fiction told, or in their significance.
这里来了个转折, 说整体而言, 即便这些支持者也对这些小说所讲述的故事以及这些小说的重要意义表示不感兴趣.
题目问我们可以从文中infer出19世纪大多数大多数女性小说评论家的什么right? exciting. 先来看C. C的意思是说, 大多数评论家都认为, 比起小说情节, 小说的社会意义更为重要. 这里我们回看第三句. 第三句说即便少数支持者也对这些小说所讲述的故事及其重要意义不感兴趣, 这里我们可以很容易infer出大多数评论家都对这些小说的plot和significance反应冷淡, 但我们能就此infer出哪个比哪个更重要吗? 显然不能, 所以这是一个out of scope选项. 排除掉.
然后看B. B说大多数评论家都不会在不同的作家之间做出区分, 这显然是第一句话的正话反说: 少数人才会区分=多数人不会区分. 选B.

但这个思路有一个小小的fissure, 也是我先前没有注意到的内容: distinguishing between the works of the different authors ≠ distinguishing between different authors. 这之间的nuances不好解释清楚, 但这里确实存在一个逻辑上的gap: works = authors.
但是, 如果比起E, 或者C, B在这里显然要“更为正确”, 所以当E是括号里内容的情况下, B相对而言是最优答案.
但当E是这里呈现的内容时, B就显然应该让位于E了. 关于选E的理由, 楼上的定位已经非常准确了, 这里不作赘述.

希望对你有用.

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我Me是个好人 发表于 2017-10-11 23:24
大神是真不敢当, 经常回答错问题倒是真的...

好了进入正题.

谢谢大佬~~明天就要考了，好虚

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透明123 发表于 2017-10-12 13:40
谢谢大佬~~明天就要考了，好虚

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