单选题
Directions: The next questions are based on the content of the
following passage. Read the passage and then determine the best answer choice
for each question. Base your choice on what this passage states directlyor
implies, not on any information you may have gained elsewhere.
For each of Questions 17-20, select one answer choice unless otherwise
instructed.
Questions 17-19 are based on the following
passage.
As the works of dozens of women
writers
have been rescued from what E. P.
Thompson calls "the enormous condescen-
Line sion of posterity," and considered in relation
(5) to
each other, the lost continent of the
female tradition has
risen like Atlantis from
the sea of English literature. It is
now
becoming clear that, contrary to Mill's the-
ory, women have had a literature of their
(10) own all
along. The woman novelist, accord-
ing to Vineta Colby, was
"really neither sin-
gle nor anomalous," but she was also
more
than a "register and spokesman for her age."
She was part of a tradition that had its ori-
(15) gins
before her age, and has carried on
through our own.
Many literary historians have begun to
reinterpret and revise the study of women
writers. Ellen Moers
sees women's literature
(20) as an international movement,
"apart from,
but hardly subordinate to the
mainstream:
an undercurrent, rapid and powerful. This
'movement' began in the late eighteenth cen-
tury, was
multinational, and produced some
(25) of the greatest literary
works of two centuries,
as well as most of the lucrative
pot-boilers."
Patricia Meyer Spacks, in The Female
Imagination, finds that "for readily discernible
historical reasons women have characteristi-
(30) cally
concerned themselves with matters more
or less peripheral to
male concerns, or at least
slightly skewed from them. The
differences
between traditional female preoccupations
and roles and male ones make a difference in
(35) female
writing." Many other critics are begin-
ning to agree that when
we look at women
writers collectively we can see an
imaginative
continuum, the recurrence of certain pat-
terns, themes, problems, and images from
generation to
generation. In the second paragraph of the passage the author's attitude toward
the literary historians cited can best be described as one of
- A. irony
- B. ambivalence
- C. disparagement
- D. receptiveness
- E. awe