GMAT 07套-Q3 考题|阅读|RC|博森|王可达
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GMAT
07套 –
Q3-Q6
1In a
1984 book, Claire C. Robertson argued that, before colonialism, age was a more
important indicator of status and authority than gender in Ghana and in Africa
generally. 2British
colonialism imposed European-style male-dominant notions upon more egalitarian
local situations to the detriment of women generally, and gender became a
defining characteristic that weakened women's power and authority.
1Subsequent
research in Kenya convinced Robertson that she had overgeneralized about
Africa. 2Before
colonialism, gender was more salient in central Kenya than it was in Ghana,
although age was still crucial in determining authority. 3In contrast with Ghana, where women had
traded for hundreds of years and achieved legal majority (not unrelated
phenomena), the evidence regarding central Kenya indicated that women were
legal minors and were sometimes treated as male property, as were European
women at that time. 4Factors
like strong patrilinearity and patrilocality, as
well as women's inferior land rights and lesser involvement in trade, made
women more dependent on men than was generally the case in Ghana. 5However, since age apparently remained
the overriding principle of social organization in central Kenya, some senior
women had much authority. 6Thus,
Robertson revised her hypothesis somewhat, arguing that in determining
authority in precolonial Africa age was a primary principle that superseded
gender to varying degrees depending on the situation.
Q3
The primary purpose of the passage is to
A) present
evidence undermining a certain hypothesis
B) describe
a particular position and its subsequent modification
C) discuss
two contrasting viewpoints regarding a particular issue
D) describe
how a social phenomenon varied by region
E) evaluate
an assumption widely held by scholars
