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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 新SAT阅读官方题型解析 SAT考试试题库：新SAT阅读官方题型解析-主旨题(1) The Official SAT Study Guide  Questions 32-41 are based on thefollowing passage.  This passage is adapted fromVirginia Woolf, Three Guineas.1938 by Harcourt, Inc. Here, Woolf considers thesituation of women in English society.  Close at hand is a bridge over theRiver Thames,an admirable vantage ground for us to make a survey. The river flowsbeneath; barges pass, laden with timber, bursting with corn; there on one sideare the domes and spires of the city; on the other, Westminster and the Housesof Parliament. It is a place to stand on by the hour, dreaming. But not now.Now we are pressed for time. Now we are here to consider facts; now we must fixour eyes upon the procession—the procession of the sons of educated men.  There they go, our brothers whohave been educated at public schools and universities, mounting those steps,passing in and out of those doors, ascending those pulpits, preaching,teaching, administering justice, practising medicine,transacting business,making money. It is a solemn sight always—a procession, like a caravanseraicrossing a desert. . . . But now, for the past twenty years or so, it is nolonger a sight merely, a photograph, or fresco scrawled upon the walls of time,at which we can look with merely an esthetic appreciation. For there, trapesingalong at the tail end of the procession, we go ourselves. And that makes adifference. We who have looked so long at the pageant in books, or from acurtained window watched educated men leaving the house at about nine-thirty togo to an office, returning to the house at about six-thirty from an office,need look passively no longer. We too can leave the house, can mount thosesteps, pass in and out of those doors, . . . make money, administer justice. .. . We who now agitate these humble pens may in another century or two speakfrom a pulpit. Nobody will dare contradict us then; we shall be the