Day 11

英文重现

Current feminist theory, in validating women's own stories of their experience, has encouraged scholars of women's history to view the use of women's oral narratives as the methodology, next to the use of women's written autobiography, that brings historians closest to the “reality” of women's lives. Such narratives, unlike most standard histories, represent experience from the perspective of women, affirm the importance of women's contributions, and furnish present-day women with historical continuity that is essential to their identity, individually and collectively.

——GMAT OG 2015, Reading Comprehension, Passage 9

解析

1.所给段落的第一个句子很长，为了方便理解，大家可以先将状语“in validating… their experience”、定语“next to … written autobiography”以及定语从句“that brings historians closest to the ‘reality’ of women's lives”（修饰“methodology”）跳过不看，只看主要部分“Current feminist theory has encouraged scholars of women's history to view the use of women's oral narratives as the methodology”。

2.词组“next to”的意思是“次于；居于……之后”，“next to the use of women's written autobiography”意思就是“仅次于使用女性书面的自传”。

3.第二个句子有三个并列的谓语：“represent”、“affirm”和“furnish”，由此可知，作者从三个方面指出了口头故事和标准历史的不同点。

词义辨析

参考翻译

现在的女权主义理论在使女性基于自身经历讲述的故事生效的过程中，鼓励女性历史研究者们将女性口头故事的使用看作一种仅次于使用女性书面自传的方法论，这种方法论能把历史学家带到离女性生活的“现实”最近的距离（即这种方法论最能使历史学家了解女性真实的生活）。与大多数标准历史不同的是，这些（口头）故事从女性的角度描述经历，肯定女性所做贡献的重要性，并且为现在的女性提供了对她们的身份很重要的历史连贯性，无论是对个人身份还是对集体身份。

实战演练

Current feminist theory, in validating women's own stories of their experience, has encouraged scholars of women's history to view the use of women's oral narratives as the methodology, next to the use of women's written autobiography, that brings historians closest to the “reality” of women's lives. Such narratives, unlike most standard histories, represent experience from the perspective of women, affirm the importance of women's contributions, and furnish present-day women with historical continuity that is essential to their identity, individually and collectively.

Scholars of women's history should, however, be as cautious about accepting oral narratives at face value as they already are about written memories…

According to the passage, each of the following is a difference between women's oral narratives and most standard histories EXCEPT :

(A) Women's oral histories validate the significance of women's achievements.

(B) Women's oral histories depict experience from the point of view of women.

(C) Women's oral histories acknowledge the influence of well-known women.

(D) Women's oral histories present today's women with a sense of their historical relationship to women of the past.

(E) Women's oral histories are crucial to the collective identity of today's women.

答案：C

答案解析

题目问的是下面哪项不属于妇女的口头故事和标准历史的区别。解题思路很简单，将各个选项和文中提到的几个不同（原文“unlike”一句引出的内容）一一对应就可以了。选项A“妇女的口述历史证实了妇女成就的重要性”和原文“affirm the importance of women's contributions”对应；选项B“妇女的口述历史从妇女的角度描述经历”和原文“represent experience from the perspective of women”对应；选项D“为现在女性提供了她们和以往女性之间的历史关联感”及选项E“女性的口头历史对现在女性的集体身份很重要”都与原文“furnish present-day women with historical continuity that is essential to their identity”对应；只有选项C“女性的口头历史承认著名女性的影响”与原文不对应，原文并没有指定著名女性，故C是正确选项。