GRE最新练习题第2部分

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14. PERSPICACITY： ACUTE：：

　　（A） adaptability： prescient

　　（B） decorum： complacent

　　（C） caprice： whimsical

　　（D） discretion： literal

　　（E） ignorance： pedantic

　　15. PLAYFUL： BANTER：：

　　（A） animated： originality

　　（B） exaggerated： hyperbole

　　（C） insidious： effrontery

　　（D） pompous： irrationality

　　（E） taciturn： solemnity

　　16. QUARANTINE： CONTAGION：：

　　（A） blockage： obstacle

　　（B） strike： concession

　　（C） embargo： commerce

　　（D） vaccination： inoculation

　　（E） prison： reform　Influenced by the view of some twentieth-century　feminists that womens position within the family is　one of the central factors determining womens social　position， some historians have underestimated the signi-

　　（5） ficance of the woman suffrage movement. These histor-　ians contend that nineteenth-century suffragism was less　radical and， hence， less important than， for example， the　moral reform movement or domestic feminism-two　nineteenth-century movements in which women strug-

　　（10）gled for more power and autonomy within the family.　True， by emphasizing these struggles， such historians　have broadened the conventional view of nineteenth-　century feminism， but they do a historical disservice to　suffragism. Nineteenth-century feminists and anti-

　　（15）feminist alike perceived the suffragists demand for　enfranchisement as the most radical element in women　　protest， in part because suffragists were demanding　power that was not based on the institution of the　family， womens traditional sphere. When evaluating

　　（20）nineteenth-century feminism as a social force， contem-　porary historians should consider the perceptions of　actual participants in the historical events.

　　17.The author asserts that the historians discussed in　the passage have

　　（A） influenced feminist theorists who concentrate on　the family

　　（B） honored the perceptions of the women who　participated in the women suffrage movement

　　（C） treated feminism as a social force rather than as　an intellectual tradition

　　（D） paid little attention to feminist movements

　　（E） expanded the conventional view of nineteenth-　century feminism

　　18.The author of the passage asserts that some　twentieth-century feminists have influenced some　historians view of the

　　（A） significance of the woman suffrage movement

　　（B） importance to society of the family as an　institution

　　（C） degree to which feminism changed nineteenth-

　　century society

　　（D） philosophical traditions on which contemporary　feminism is based

　　（E） public response to domestic feminism in th　nineteenth century