Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, almost nothing was written about the contribution of women during the colonial period and the early history of the newly formed United States. Lacking the right to vote and absent from the seats of power, women were not considered an important force in history. Anne Bradstreet wrote some significant poetry in the 17th century, Mercy Otis Warren produced the best contemporary history of the American Revolution, and Abigail Adams penned important letters showing she exercised great political influence over her husband, John, the second President of the United States. But little or no notice was taken of these contributions. During these centuries, women remained invisible in history books.
Throughout the 19th century, this lack of visibility continued, despite the efforts of 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 uncritical in their selection and use of sources.
During the 19th century, however, certain feminists showed a keen sense of history by keeping records of activities in which women were engaged. National, regional, and local women’s organizations compiled accounts of their doings. Personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, and souvenirs were saved and stored. These sources form the core of the two greatest collections of women’s history in the United States: one at the Elizabeth and Arthur Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, and the other the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. Such sources have provided valuable materials for later generations of historians.
Despite the gathering of more information about ordinary women during the 19th century, most of the writing about women conformed to the “great women” theory of history, just as much of mainstream American history concentrated on “great men”. To demonstrate that women were making significant contributions to American life, female authors singled out women leaders, and wrote biographies, and important women produced their autobiographies. Most of these leaders were involved in public life as reformers, activists working for women’s right to vote, or authors, and were not representative at all of the great of ordinary women. The lives of ordinary people continued, generally, to be untold in the American histories being published.
Notes:
- correspondence ( danh từ) = thư từ
- uncritical (tính từ) = thiếu óc phê bình, thiếu tính phê phán.
0Câu 1
The passage mainly discusses______
A. the place of American women in written histories
B.the “great women” approach to history used by American historians
C. the role of literature in early American histories
D. the keen sense of history shown by American women
Câu 2
The word “contemporary” in paragraph 1 means that the history was _______
A. written at that time
B.faultfinding
C. thoughtful
D. informative
Câu 3
In paragraph 1, Bradstreet, Warren, and Adams are mentioned to show that_____
A. only three women were able to get their writing published
B. even the contribution of outstanding women were ignored
C. a woman’s status was changed by marriage
D. poetry produced by women was more readily accepted than other writing by women
Câu 4
The word “celebratory” in paragraph 2 means that the writings referred to were ____
A. serious
B.religious
C. full of praise
D. related to parties
Câu 5
The word “they” in paragraph 2 refers to__ .
A. authors
B.efforts
C. counterparts
D. sources
Câu 6
In paragraph 2, the author points out the weakness in 19th century histories that is ____
A. the sources of the information they were based on were not necessarily accurate
B.they were printed on poor-quality paper
C. they put too much emphasis on daily activities
D. they left out discussion of the influence of money on politics
Câu 7
On the basis of information in paragraph 3, nineteenth-century feminist organizations would most likely collect ________
A. letters from a mother to a daughter advising her how to handle a family problem
B.books about famous graduates of the country’s first college
C. newspaper accounts of presidential election results
D. biographies of John Adams
Câu 8
The nineteenth-century women’s history materials in the Schlesinger Library and the Sophia Smith Collection_________.
A. formed the basis of college courses in the 19th century
B.were combined and published in a multivolume encyclopedia
C. provided valuable information for twentieth-century historical researchers
D. were shared among women’s colleges throughout the United States
Câu 9
In the last paragraph, the author mentions all of the following as possible roles of nineteenth-century “great women” EXCEPT____ .
A. reformers
B.politicians
C. activists for women’s rights
D. authors
Câu 10
The word “representative” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to ____
A. typical
B.satisfied
C. supportive
D. distinctive
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B.
C.
D.
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