GRE出国考试模拟试题11

    GRE出国考试模拟试题11

    It is possible for students to obtain advanced degrees in

    English while knowing little or nothing about traditional

    scholarly methods. The consequences of this neglect of

    traditional scholarship are particularly unfortunate for the

    (5) study of women writers. If the canon—the list of authors

    whose works are most widely taught—is ever to include

    more women, scholars must be well trained in historical

    scholarship and textual editing. Scholars who do not know

    how to read early manuscripts, locate rare books, establish

    (10)a sequence of editions, and so on are bereft of crucial tools

    for revising the canon.

    To address such concerns, an experimental version of

    the traditional scholarly methods course was designed to

    raise students’ consciousness about the usefulness of

    (15)traditional learning for any modern critic or theorist. To

    minimize the artificial aspects of the conventional course,

    the usual procedure of assigning a large number of small

    problems drawn from the entire range of historical periods

    was abandoned, though this procedure has the obvious

    (20)advantage of at least superficially familiarizing students

    with a wide range of reference sources. Instead students

    were engaged in a collective effort to do original work on

    a neglected eighteenth-century writer, Elizabeth Griffith, to

    give them an authentic experience of literary scholarship

    (25)and to inspire them to take responsibility for the quality of

    their own work.

    Griffith’s work presented a number of advantages for

    this particular pedagogical purpose. First, the body of

    extant scholarship on Griffith was so tiny that it could all

    (30)be read in a day; thus students spent little time and effort

    mastering the literature and had a clear field for their own

    discoveries. Griffith’s play The Platonic Wife exists in three

    versions, enough to provide illustrations of editorial issues

    but not too many for beginning students to manage. In addi-

    (35)tion, because Griffith was successful in the eighteenth cen-

    tury, as her continued productivity and favorable reviews

    demonstrate, her exclusion from the canon and virtual dis-

    appearance from literary history also helped raise issues

    concerning the current canon.

    (40) The range of Griffith’s work meant that each student

    could become the world’s leading authority on a particular

    Griffith text. For example, a student studying Griffith’s

    Wife in the Right obtained a first edition of the play and

    studied it for some weeks. This student was suitably

    (45)shocked and outraged to find its title transformed into A

    Wife in the Night in Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica. Such

    experiences, inevitable and common in working on a writer

    to whom so little attention has been paid, serve to vaccinate

    the student ---I hope for a lifetime—against credulous use

    of reference sources.

    17.The author of the passage is primarily concerned with

    (A) revealing a commonly ignored deficiency

    (B) proposing a return to traditional terminology

    (C) describing an attempt to correct a shortcoming

    (D) assessing the success of a new pedagogical

    approach

    (E) predicting a change in a traditional teaching

    strategy

    18.It can be inferred that the author of the passage expects

    that the experience of the student mentioned as having

    studied Wife in the Right would have which of the fol-

    lowing effects?

    (A) It would lead the student to disregard information

    found in the Bibliotheca Britannica.

    (B) It would teach the student to question the accuracy

    of certain kinds of information sources when

    studying neglected authors.

    (C) It would teach the student to avoid the use of refer-

    ence sources in studying neglected authors.

    (D) It would help the student to understand the impor-

    tance of first editions in establishing the author-

    ship of plays.

    (E) It would enhance the student’s appreciation of the

    works of authors not included in the canon.

    19. The author of the passage suggests that which of the

    following is a disadvantage of the strategy employed in

    the experimental scholarly methods course?

    (A) Students were not given an opportunity to study

    women writers outside the canon.

    (B) Students’ original work would not be appreciated

    by recognized scholars.

    (C) Little scholarly work has been done on the work

    of Elizabeth Griffith.

    (D) Most of the students in the course had had little

    opportunity to study eighteenth-century literature.

    (E) Students were not given an opportunity to encoun-

    ter certain sources of information that could

    prove useful in their future studies.

    20. Which of the following best states the "particular

    pedagogical purpose" mentioned in line 28?

    (A) To assist scholars in revising the canon of authors

    (B) To minimize the trivial aspects of the traditional

    scholarly methods course

    (C) To provide students with information about

    Griffith’s work

    (D) To encourage scholarly rigor in students’ own

    research

    (E) To reestablish Griffith’s reputation as an author

    21. Which of the following best describes the function of

    the last paragraph in relation to the passage as a

    whole?

    (A) It summarizes the benefits that students can derive

    from the experimental scholarly methods course.

    (B) It provides additional reasons why Griffith’s work

    raises issues having to do with the canon of

    authors.

    (C) It provides an illustration of the immediate nature

    of the experiences students can derive from the

    experimental scholarly methods course.

    (D) It contrasts the experience of a student in the

    experimental scholarly methods course with the

    experience of a student in the traditional course

    (E) It provides information that emphasizes the suita-

    bility of Griffith’s work for inclusion in the

    canon of authors.

    22. It can be inferred that which of the following is most

    likely to be among the "issues" mentioned in line 38?

    (A) Why has the work of Griffith, a woman writer

    who was popular in her own century, been

    excluded from the canon?

    (B) In what ways did Griffith’s work reflect the polit-

    ical climate of the eighteenth century?

    (C) How was Griffith’s work received by literary

    critics during the eighteenth century?

    (D) How did the error in the title of Griffith’s play

    come to be made?

    (E) How did critical reception of Griffith’s work

    affect the quantity and quality of that work?

    23. It can be inferred that the author of the passage con-

    siders traditional scholarly methods courses to be

    (A) irrelevant to the work of most students

    (B) inconsequential because of their narrow focus

    (C) unconcerned about the accuracy of reference

    sources

    (D) too superficial to establish important facts about

    authors

    (E) too wide-ranging to approximate genuine scholarly

    activity