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GRE阅读题目解析:新英格兰清教徒文化

2017-05-11 09:10:00来源:新东方在线整理

  P4

  1

  Recent scholarship has strongly suggested that the aspects of early New England culture that seem to have been most distinctly Puritan, such as the strong religious orientation and the communal impulse, were not typical of New England as a whole, but were largely confined to the two colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut.

  近期的研究都清楚地表明,早期新英格兰地区那种明显的清教徒文化,如强烈的宗教倾向及群体意识,并不见于整个新英格兰地区,而主要局限在 M 和 C 两个殖民地。

  2

  Thus, what in contrast to the Puritan colonies appears to Professor Davis to be peculiarly Southern was not only more typically English than the cultural patterns exhibited by Puritan Massachusetts and Connecticut, but also almost certainly characteristic of most other early modern British colonies from Barbados north to Rhode Island and New Hampshire.

  因此,不但 D 教授所认定的那些南方独有的,与清教徒殖民地相反的特征,比 M 和 C 两地表现出的文化风格更接近典型的英国式,而且从 B 北部 到 RI 和 NH 地区的其他早期现代英国殖民地,也比 M 和 C 更接近英国。

  3

  Within the larger framework of American colonial life, then, not the Southern but the Puritan colonies appear to have been distinctive, and even they seem to have been rapidly assimilating to the dominant cultural patterns by the late Colonial period. ( 145 words)

  那么,在更广大的美国殖民生活的框架内,与众不同的不是南方,而是清教徒殖民地,且即便是这些地区,在殖民时期晚期到来以前,也迅速融入了主流文化风格。

  8. Which of the following statements could most logically follow the last sentence of the passage?

  (A) Thus, had more attention been paid to the evidence, Davis would not have been tempted to argue that the culture of the South diverged greatly from Puritan culture in the seventeenth century.

  (B) Thus, convergence, not divergence, seems to have characterized the cultural development of the American colonies in the eighteenth century.

  (C) Thus, without the cultural diversity represented by the America South, the culture of colonial America would certainly have been homogeneous in nature.

  (D) Thus, the contribution of Southern colonials to American culture was certainly overshadowed by that of the Puritans.

  (E) Thus, the culture of America during the Colonial period was far more sensitive to outside influences than historians are accustomed to acknowledge.

  选 B

  有点难。

  我大概整理一下文章的逻辑。

  首先你要知道,New England 是美国的一个地区,并非欧洲:

  New England

  A region of the northeast United States comprising the modern-day states of M aine, N ew H ampshire, V ermont, M assachusetts, C onnecticut, and R hode I sland.

  新英格兰:美国东北的一个地区,由现在的缅因州、新罕布什尔州、佛蒙特州、马萨诸塞州和康涅狄格州和罗得岛州组成

  (美国传统词典【双解版】)

  文中提到的几个地方,M / C / RI / NH 都属于这个地区,在美国东北。

  加入文化风格这个判断标准,文中提到两极:清教徒式的,英国式的。

  (也许听说过英国本土当时对清教徒持排斥甚至迫害的态度,两者对立。)

  以前有一种观点(很可能代表人物就是 D 教授)认为:南方是英国式的,新英格兰地区是清教徒式的。

  现在越来越多的研究证明,新英格兰地区,只有 M 和 C 是清教徒式的,其他几个地区跟南方没有什么不同。

  而 M 和 C 这两个另类的新教徒风格的地区,后来也迅速地融入了英国式风格。

  我们现在回到选项。

  A 说反了,D教授肯定认为南北不同的。

  B 正确,说融合是大势所趋,又提到了十八世纪。如果说了十八世纪,那么无论如何都一定融合了,因为美国在十八世纪建国了,1776年,建国后就不叫殖民时期了,何况文章告诉我们,殖民时期晚期以前就已经融合了。

  C 乱聊,南方有没有 cultural diversity 文中没提过。

  D 乱聊,对美国文化的 contribution 这种事,文中没提过。

  E 乱聊,无根据认为比学者们认为的更 sensitive to outside influences 。

  我个人认为,这题出的不够好。也许是因为选段的全文在老题库里很长,做成新阅读后因裁剪丢了重要信息;否则有牵涉背景知识的嫌疑,历史的和地理的。

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