GRE最新練習(xí)題第3部分

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19.The author of the passage suggests that which of the
    following was true of nineteenth-century feminists?
    (A) Those who participated in the moral reform
    movement were motivated primarily by a
    desire to reconcile their private lives with their
    public positions.
    (B) Those who advocated domestic feminism,
    although less visible than the suffragists, were
    in some ways the more radical of the two
    groups.
    (C) Those who participated in the woman suffrage
    movement sought social roles for women that
    were not defined by women's familial roles.
    (D) Those who advocated domestic feminism
    regarded the gaining of more autonomy within
    the family as a step toward more participation
    in public life.
    (E) Those who participated in the nineteenth-
    century moral reform movement stood midway
    between the positions of domestic feminism
    and suffragism.
    20.The author implies that which of the following is
    true of the historians discussed in the passage?
    (A) They argue that nineteenth-century feminism
    was not as significant a social force as
    twentieth-century feminism has been.
    (B) They rely too greatly on the perceptions of the
    actual participants in the events they study.
    (C)Their assessment of the relative success of
    nineteenth-century domestic feminism does
    not adequately take into account the effects of
    antifeminist rhetoric.
    (D)Their assessment of the significance of
    nineteenth-century suffragism differs
    considerably from that of nineteenth-century
    feminists.
    (E) They devote too much attention to nineteenth-
    century suffragism at the expense of more
    radical movements that emerged shortly after
    the turn of the century.
    Many objects in daily use have clearly been influenced
    by science, but their form and function, their dimensions
    and appearance, were determined by technologists
    artisans, designers, inventors, and engineers——using non-
    (5) scientific modes of thought. Many features and qualities
    of the objects that a technologist thinks about cannot be
    reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions; they are
    dealt with in the mind by a visual, nonverbal process. In
    the development of Western technology, it has been non-
    (10)verbal thinking, by and large, that has fixed the outlines
    and filled in the details of our material surroundings.
    Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of
    geometry or thermodynamics, but because they were first
    a picture in the minds of those who built them.
    (15) The creative shaping process of a technologist's mind
    can be seen in nearly every artifact that exists. For exam-
    ple, in designing a diesel engine, a technologist might
    impress individual ways of nonverbal thinking on the
    machine by continually using an intuitive sense of right-