GMAT阅读理解材料-智课教育.pdf

智 课 网 G M A T 备 考 资 料 GMAT阅读理解材料-智课教育 GMAT阅读理解材料如下： Current feminist theory, in validating womens own stories of their experience, has encouraged scholars of womens history to view the use of womens oral narratives as the methodology, next to the use of womens written autobiography, that brings historians closest to the reality of womens lives. Such narratives, unlike most standard histories, represent experience from the perspective of women, affirm the importance of womens contributions, and furnish present-day women with historical continuity that is essential to their identity, individually and collectively. Scholars of womens history should, however, be as cautious about accepting oral narratives at face value as they already are about written memories. Oral narratives are no more likely than are written narratives to provide a disinterested commentary on events or people. Moreover, the stories people tell to explain themselves are shaped by narrative devices and storytelling conventions, as well as by other cultural and historical factors, in ways that the storytellers may be unaware of. The political rhetoric of a particular era, for example, may influence womens interpretations of the significance of their experience. Thus a woman who views the Second World War as pivotal in increasing the social acceptance of womens paid work outside the home may reach that conclusion partly and unwittingly because of wartime rhetoric encouraging a positive view of womens participation in such work. 文章概况：现在的一些理论鼓励学者研究口语的东西，因为口语的 东西能够比写出来的东西让这些历史学家更加接近女性生活的真实状况 。后面详述了一些这些口语的东西到底是什么。 第二段开始谈如果历史学家采用口语的东西他们必须小心点。后面 具体详述了口语和写出来的东西有什么区别会让我采用口语的东西必须 小心翼翼！ The passage is primarily concerned with (A) contrasting the benefits of one methodology with the benefits of another (B) describing the historical origins and inherent drawbacks of a particular met