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问题：

1. The author’s primary purpose is that

A. the evidence used in support of a particular argument is questionable

B. a distinction between two genres of writing has been overlooked

C. a particular issue is more complex than it might appear

D. two apparently different works share common features

E. two eighteenth-century authors held significantly different attitudes toward a particular

选 C

文段讨论始终围绕着 “ 十八世纪晚期的女性读者，应该读小说还是历史书，哪个好 ” 这个问题。

句 1 出现的 cultural authorities 认为历史书好，edifying，启发、陶冶人，小说不好，肤浅而且太简单化。

句 4 出现的 double-edged 双刃的，双重效果的，暗示着读历史书也未必那么好，此后直到文段结束，都在说读历史书可能遇到的问题。

综合后选 C，情况比较复杂。

2. According to the passage, which of the following is true of Hume’s reputation in the late eighteenth century?

A. He was more regarded as a historian than Gibbon

B. His historical writing, like his philosophical writing, came to be regarded as problematic

C. He was more well-known for his historical writing than for his philosophical writing

D. His historic writing came to be regarded as morally questionable because of his association with Gibbon

E. His views about classical paganism brought him disapproval among the general reading public

选 B

不算太明显，用的是排除法。

A 被认为比 G 更配称为历史学者。毫无根据的比较，文中没有此类信息。

B 历史著作和哲学著作一样被认为有问题。文中说的是，前者不像后者那么令人反感，objectionable，没那么反感，但也有问题。勉强可以接受的选项。

C 更因历史方面的写作出名。未知信息，无法判断他因为什么出名。

D 首先错在人们质疑的是 H 这个人作为历史学者的道德问题，而不是质疑他的作品有道德问题，这是完全两回事，就像毕加索生活中是人渣，作品没有道德问题;其次 because 后面的内容无根据。

3. The highlighted sentence exemplifies which of the following?

A. Cultural authorities’ attempt to use novels to support their view about the value of reading fiction

B. Eighteenth-century women authors’ attempts to embody in their work certain cultural authorities’ views about reading

C. A point about the educational value of reading books about history

D. An instance in which a particular judgment about the value of reading history is apparently presupposed

E. A challenge to an assumption about eighteenth-century women’s reading habits

选 D

某种判断 a particular judgement 指句 1 cultural authorities 的认为历史书比小说好的观点;

明显事先假定了 is apparently presupposed 是说读者认为，因为女主角喜欢读历史书，所以一定比不喜欢读历史书的姐妹更聪明这种看法，是明显受到了 cultural authorities 的影响，预先假定 cultural authorities 的看法是对的，才做出了那种判断。

4. The author mentions the “widespread doubts” in order to

A. support a point about the scholarly merit of Hume’s writings

B. contrast Hume’s philosophical writing with his writing on historical subjects

C. suggest that Hanway did not understand the implicit controversy depicting her heroine as reading Hume

D. identify an ambiguity in Hanway’s depiction of the philosopher in The Northern Wanderer

E. illustrate a point about a way eighteenth-century fiction sometimes represented historians

选 C

难题，非常精致巧妙的一道难题。我喜欢这题。

题目说的 widespread doubts 出现在句 7：

While Hume’s history was generally seen as being less objectionable than his philosophy, there were widespread doubts about his moral soundness even as a historian by the time that Hanway was writing, and Gibbon’s perceived tendency to celebrate classical paganism sparked controversy from the first appearance of his history of Rome.

不管你做不做对，现在告诉你正确答案是 C，你能找出 C 的根据吗?

为什么说 “ 暗示着 H 不理解这种不明确的争议 ”?

关键在于句 4：

Yet in both cases, the praise of history is more double-edged than it might actually appear.

double-edged 双刃剑的，有双重效果的

所谓有双重效果，即有好处也有坏处，双方都有损失。

这本文语境下，好处是读者看到角色喜欢读历史书，就认为角色聪明、有德行，virtuous and intelligent(句 2);坏处是，H 本人就广受质疑 widespread doubts about his moral soundness even as a historian。

假定你是小说作者，你给角色的设定是 virtuous and intelligent，你会冒险用一个被大家认为品德不高的学者完成你的设定吗?肯定不会，即便你私下相信并支持这个学者，都不会在作品中这样做，因为这影响了作品表达，会产生不必要的误解。

唯一的解释是，Hanway 没想明白这件事，就让自己的角色爱上了 Hume 的书 。所以 C 正确。

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