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Question 10-19During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, almost nothing was written about thecontributions of women during the colonial period and the early history of the newlyformed United States. Lacking the right to vote and absent from the seats of power, womenline were not considered an important force in history. Anne Bradstreet wrote some significant5) poetry in the seventeenth century, Mercy Otis Warren produced the best contemporaryhistory of the American Revolution, and Abigail Adams penned important letters showingshe exercised great political influence over her husband, John, the second President of theUnited States. But little or no notice was taken of these contributions. During theseCenturies, women remained invisible in history books.Throughout the nineteenth century, this lack of visibility continued, despite the effortsof female authors writing about women. These writers, like most of their male counterparts,were amateur historians. Their writings were celebratory in nature, and they were uncriticalin their selection and use of sources.During the nineteenth century, however, certain feminists showed a keen sense ofhistory by keeping records of activities in which women were engaged. National, regional,and local women’s organizations compiled accounts of their doings. Personalcorrespondence, newspaper clippings, and souvenirs were saved and stored. These sourcesfrom the core of the two greatest collections of women’s history in the United States one atthe Elizabeth and Arthur Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, and the other the SophiaSmith Collection at Smith College. Such sources have provided valuable materials for laterGenerations of historians.Despite the gathering of more information about ordinary women during the nineteenthCentury, most of the writing about women conformed to the “great women” theory ofHistory, just as much of mainstream American history concentrated on “great men.” Todemonstrate that women were making significant contributions to American life, femaleauthors singled out women leaders and wrote biographies, or else important womenproduced their autobiographies. Most of these leaders were involved in public life asreformers, activists working for women’s right to vote, or authors, and were notrepresentative at all of the great of ordinary woman. The lives of ordinary peoplecontinued, generally, to be untold in the American histories being published.
10. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The role of literature in early Americanhistories
(B) The place of American women in writtenhistories
(C) The keen sense of history shown byAmerican women
(D)The “great women” approach to historyused by American historians

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答案：B
難度：適中0.444444
統計：A(0),B(4),C(1),D(4),E(0)

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