Carla L. Peterson’s Doers of the Word (1997), astudy of African American women speakers and writers from 1830-1880, is animportant addition to scholarship on nineteenth-century African American women.Its scope resembles that of Frances Smith Fosters 1993 study, but its approachis quite different. For Foster, the Black women who came to literary voice innineteenth-century America were claiming their rights as United Statescitizens, denying that anything should disqualify them from full membership inan enlightened national polity. Peterson sees these same women as having beenfundamentally estranged from the nation by a dominant culture unsympathetic toBlack women, and by a Black intelligentsia whose male view of race concernsleft little room for Black female intellect.
It can be inferred that Peterson’s studyand Fosters study are similar with respect to which of the following?
A. the writers that each takes up for examination
B. the degree to which each has influenced other scholars
C. the assumptions that each brings to nineteenth-century AfricanAmerican literature
D. their analysis of the nineteenth-century Black intelligentsia
E. their interpretation of nineteenth-century Americas dominant culture‘
解析
答案：A
解析：
做對(duì)了么?這道題如果做錯(cuò)，要做10個(gè)俯臥撐，好好反思下呀!題目問(wèn)P和F兩人的共同點(diǎn)。文章主要就是通過(guò)和F的對(duì)比介紹P的研究。文章哪里提到兩人相同點(diǎn)呢?對(duì)了，是這句：Its scope resembles that of Frances Smith Fosters 1993 study, butits approach is quite different. 說(shuō)得再清楚不過(guò)啦!為什么沒(méi)有選A呢?哎呀，A選項(xiàng)“the writers that each takes up for examination”不理解，其實(shí)就是說(shuō)，兩個(gè)人研究的作家對(duì)象是一樣的。原文哪個(gè)詞說(shuō)的是研究對(duì)象呢?對(duì)啦!scope! 研究范圍就是研究的作家對(duì)象呀!
在GRE閱讀中，類似的文章和題目屬于送分類型。這種題目做錯(cuò)，一來(lái)很可能說(shuō)明根據(jù)文章做題的基本方法沒(méi)掌握，二來(lái)很可能就是基本句義的理解需要加強(qiáng)啦!加油!