新SAT阅读官方题型解析-Central Ideas主旨题例1

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例题一:

材料：The Official SAT Study Guide

试卷：1

页数：344

题号：33

Questions

32-41 are based on the following

passage.

This

passage is adapted from Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas.

©1938

by Harcourt, Inc. Here, Woolf considers the situation

of

women in English society.

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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,

Westminster

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, practising 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

money,

administer justice. . . . We who now agitate

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; ten years, or perhaps only a

matter

of a few months longer. . . . But, you will

object,

you have no time to think; you have your

battles

to fight, your rent to pay, your bazaars to

organize.

That excuse shall not serve you, Madam.

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 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?

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