GRE模拟题：自测试题三（6）

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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

　　（5） 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

　　（10）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

　　（15）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

　　（20）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