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Which of the following is true according to the text?
[A] Some Founding Fathers benefit politically from slavery.
[B] Slaves in the old days did not have the right to vote.
[C] Slave owners usually had large savings accounts.
[D] Slavery was regarded as a peculiar institution.
[正确答案]D
[答案解析]A错,此选项很微妙!Jefferson不就是在政治上从奴隶制度受益的一位开国者吗?但注意选项是Some Founding Fathers,是复数。如果此项对,那么原文至少得有两位政治家在政治上受益于此制度,对吧?有没有别的政治家受益呢?得看原文,注意题目要求还刻意加上了according to the text。本文指名道姓提及的只有两位总统,另一位是Washington,那么,他到底有没有受益呢?仔细回顾原文,第一段牙齿手术,他是受益了,但不是政治上的,接下来能与此能沾点边的,有第三段的While Washington and Jefferson privately expressed distaste for slavery, they also understood that it was part of the political and economic bedrock of the country they helped to create.华盛顿知道奴隶制度是政治经济的基石,能不能据此就推测他在政治上也受益了呢?这当然不能,他理解一件事情,并不意味着他就曾受益于此。B选项错,奴隶在本文叙述的那个年代,根据历史知识,应该是没有选举权的,但本文并未明述。文中只有counted a slave as three fifths of a man,这并没涉及选举权,只是对选举团各代表人数计算有影响。C不对,原文是Owning slaves was like having a large bank account. 这是比喻,拥有奴隶就象拥有大笔存款,看清楚了就不会有问题。D 选项正确。其线索隐蔽但很明确!第4段第二句话:The southern states would not have signed the Constitution without protections for the “peculiar institution,”中的the “peculiar institution” 是根据。注意peculiar institution 前面加了定冠词the,它所指代的一定是前面已经出现的,也即slavery,也就是说slavery被看作是a peculiar institution。我们再理一下逻辑:the peculiar institution指代slavery,那么,slavery是不是被看作是a peculiar institution啊?!而且,peculiar institution 就是slavery委婉的说法,“peculiar institution” is a euphemism for slavery。
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