注意连续的三或四个并列名词或相应的并列结构

3.

   Industrial Revolution

4.

   fundamental alteration

      虚拟语气

   题干的发问对象与原文的说法相反

   取非题的代表

6. It can be inferred from the passage that the author most probably believes which of the following to be true concerning those historians who study the history of women?

   (A) Their work provides insights important to those examining social phenomena affecting the lives of both sexes.

   (B) Their work can only be used cautiously by scholars in other disciplines.

   (C) Because they concentrate only on the role of women in the workplace, they draw more reliable conclusions than do other historians.

   (D) While highly interesting, their work has not had an impact on most historians' current assumptions concerning the revolutionary effect of technology in the workplace.

   (E) They oppose the further mechanization of work, which, according to their findings, tends to perpetuate existing inequalities in society.

 

6.

   发问对象是历史学家

第4小节

7. Which of the following best describes the function of the concluding sentence of the passage?

   (A) It sums up the general points concerning the mechanization of work made in the passage as a whole.

   (B) It draws a conclusion concerning the effects of the mechanization of work which goes beyond the evidence presented in the passage as a whole.

   (C) It restates the point concerning technology made in the sentence immediately preceding it.

   (D) It qualifies the author's agreement with scholars who argue for a major revision in the assessment of the impact of mechanization on society.

   (E) It suggests a compromise between two seemingly contradictory views concerning the effects of mechanization on society.

 

7.

    concluding sentence的作用

           末句

文章结构

   首句  旧观点

    revolutionary effect

    新观点同一个对象取非之后的结果

    革命性跟感情色彩没有关系

彻底的、剧烈的、深刻的变化

   反义词：evolution    进化 渐变

    revolution    巨变

二句