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This passage is adapted from Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas. ○ C 1938 by Harcout, Inc. Here, Woolf considers the situation of women in English society.
Close at hand is a bridge over the River Thames, an admirable vantage ground for us to make a survey. The river flows beneath; barges pass, laden with timber, bursting with corn; there on one side are the domes and spires of the city; on the other, Westminister and the Houses of 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 fix our eyes upon the procession-the procession of the sons of educated men.
There they go, our brothers who have been educated at public schools and universities,mounting those steps, passing in and out of those doors, ascending those pulpits,preaching, teaching, administering justice, practicing medicine, transacting business, making money. It is a solemn sight always-a procession, like a caravanserai crossing a desert…. But now, for the past twenty years or so, it is no longer 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,trapesing along at the tail end of the procession, we go ourselves. And that makes a difference.
We who have looked so long at the pageant in books, or from a curtained window watched educated men leaving the house at about nine-thirty to go 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 those steps, pass in and out of those doors, … make these humble pens may in another century or two speak from a pulpit. Nobody will dare contradict us then; we shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit- a solemn thought, is it not? Who can say whether, as time goes on, we may not dress in military uniform with gold lace on our breasts, swords at our sides, and something like the old family coal-scuttle on our heads, save that that venerable object was never decorated with plumes of white horsehair. You laugh-indeed the shadow of the private house still makes those dresses look a little queer. We have worn private clothes so long… But we have not come here to laugh, or to talk of fashions-men’s and women’s. We are here, on the bridge, to ask ourselves certain questions. And they are very important questions; and we have very little time in which to answer them. The questions that we have to ask and to answer about that procession during this moment of transition are so important that they may well change the lives of all men and women for ever. For we have to ask ourselves, here and now, do we wish to join that procession, or don’t we? On what terms shall we join that procession? Above all, where is it leading us, the procession of educated men? The moment is short; it may last five years; then years, or perhaps only a matter of a few months longer…But, you will object, you have no time to think,l you have your battles to fight, your rent to pay, your bazaars to organize. That excuse shallnot serve you, Madame. As you know from your own experience, and there are facts that prove it,the daughters of educated men have always done their thinking from hand to mouth; not under green lamps at study tables in the cloisters of secluded colleges. They have not thought while they stirred the pot, while they rocked the cradle. It was thus that they won us the right to our brand-new sixpence. It falls to us now to go on thinking; how are we to spend that sixpence?
Think we must. Let us think in offices; in omnibuses; while we are standing in the crowd watching Coronations and Lord Mayor’s Shows; let us think… in the gallery of the House of Commons; in the Law Courts; let us think at baptisms and marriages and funerals.Let us never cease from thinking-what is this “civilization” in which we find ourselves? What are these ceremonies and why should we take part in them? What are these professions and why should we make money out of them. Where in short is it leading us, the procession of the sons of educated men?
32. The main purpose of the passage is to
(A) emphasize the value of a tradition
(B) stress the urgency of an issue
(C) highlight the severity of social divisions
(D) question the feasibility of an undertaking
正确答案：B
分析：在文章中，Woolf 问妇女们一系列问题。Woolf 希望妇女们与受过教育的男人们一起工作。Woolf强调这个问题是很急切的。因为妇女没几乎没有时间去回到这些问题(have very little time in which to answer) 。
33. The central claim of the passage is that
(A) educated women face a decision about how to engage with existing institutions
(B) women can have positions of influence in English society only if they give up some of their traditional roles
(C) the male monopoly on power in English society has had grave and continuing effects.
(D) the entry of educated women into positions of power traditionally held by men will transform those positions.
正确答案：A
分析：文章通篇 Woolf都倡导妇女们加入劳动力大军。妇女们面临着如何进入劳动力市场
的问题。
34. Woolf uses the world “we” throughout the passage mainly to
(A) reflect the growing friendliness among a group of people
(B) advance the need for candor among a group of people
(C) establish a sense of solidarity among a group of people
(D) reinforce the need for respect among a group of people
正确答案：C
分析：文章中，Woolf使用了“we”指代她自己和受过教育的妇女。使用这样的词汇，可以将受过教育的妇女团结在一起，拉近大家的距离。
35. According to the passage, Woolf chooses the setting of the bridge because it
(A) is conducive to a mood of fanciful reflection
(B) provides a good view of the procession of the sons of educated men.
(C) is within sight of historic episodes to which she alludes
(D) is symbolic of the legacy of past and present sons of educated men.
正确答案：B
分析：Woolf提到泰晤士河上的桥，主要是因为站在桥上，可以看到那些工作的男人们步行去工作的场景。泰晤士河桥为他们提供了一个良好的观察视角。
36. Woolf indicates that the procession she describes in the passage
(A) has come to have more practical influence in recent years.
(B) has become a celebrated feature of English publich life.
(C) includes all of the richest and most powerful men in England
(D) has become less exclusionary in its membership in recent years.
正确答案：D
分析: 在文章当中 Woolf写道,管理国家事务的男人，与“工作队列”中的人们相同。Woolf
注意到，妇女们正在进入这个队列，这表明这个队列越来越开放(less exclusionary) 。
37. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
(A) Lines 12-10(“There…money”)
(B) Line 10 (“It…desert”)
(C) Lines 12-13(“For …ourselves”)
(D) Lines 16-18(“We..pulpit”)
正确答案：C
分析: 见 36 题解释。
38. Woolf characterizes the questions in lines 28-30 (“For we…men”) as both
(A) controversial and threatening
(B) weighty and unanswerable
(C) momentous and pressing
(D) provocative and mysterious
正确答案：C
分析： Woolf认为她再 28-30 行提到的问题是重要的 (so important that they may well change the lives of all men and women for ever.),也是急切的(we have very little time in which to answer them).因此选择 C 选项，其中 momentous 表示重要的，pressing 表示急切的。
39. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
(A) Lines 24-25 (“We..questions”)
(B) Lines 25-26 (“And …them”)
(C) Line 30(“The moment…short”)
(D) Lines 32-33(“That …madam”)
正确答案：B
分析：结合 38 题分析内容，25-26 行 Woolf 将这些问题描述成重要的和急切的。
40. Which choice most closely captures the meaning of the figurative “sixpence” referred to in
lines 37?
(A) Tolerance
(B) Knowledge
(C) Opportunity
(D) Perspective
正确答案：C
分析：Woolf 分析说：妇女在扮演传统角色(做饭和照顾孩子)时有优势。这种优势为妇
女们赢得了 brand-new sixpence.妇女们应当学会如何花费这个“sixpence” 。结合文章主旨，
我们可以知道，这里的 sixpence 并不是真实的硬币，而是一个比喻，指代妇女们可以利用的优势进入劳动市场。
41. The range of places and occasions listed in lines 37-40 (“Let us …funerals”) mainly serves to emphasize how
(A) novel the challenge faced by women is
(B) pervasive the need for critical reflection is
(C) complex the political and social issues of the day are.
(D) enjoyable the career possibilities for women are.
正确答案：B
分析：在文章当中，Woolf 反复使用“let us think”来强调妇女们思考她们在社会中角色的重要性，因此 Woolf 列举了不同时间不同地点的思考，用排比的方法来进行强调。
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