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  3. Both Mercy Warren and Abigail Adams admired Catherine Macaulay; the radical author of A History of England, who supported the ca

Both Mercy Warren and Abigail Adams admired Catherine Macaulay; the radical author of A History of England, who supported the ca

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问题    Both Mercy Warren and Abigail Adams admired Catherine Macaulay; the radical author of A History of England, who supported the cause of the American patriots. Under Macaulay’s influence Mercy Warren conceived her plan ’to write a history of the American Revolution, living to complete it in 1805. Abigail Adams rejected literary ambitions for her- self and never lost her sense of inferiority about her poor spelling and ignorance of Latin. Yet her letters, rather than Warren’s plays and verse, have become the greater source in documenting signs of a dawning feminist consciousness.
   Abigail Adams welcomed every advance for women and foresaw more than could be realized in her lie time. She urged her husband, the second President of United States, to "remember the ladies in the new code of laws, and to give married women protection from tyrannical husbands. As she pointed out, the terrible deficiencies in education for women were felt at all levels, she finally made the significant request to her husband, that the new constitution "be distinguished from Learning and Virtue, " and suggested that "if we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. "This awareness of education’s value, rooted in the Enlightenment faith in human potentiality, had feminist implications before there was a feminist idol.
    A younger contemporary of similar background gave the reading public an explicit feminist argument for the education of women. The views of Judith Sargeant Murray (1775— 1820)reflected both personal and family experience. Murray’s Gleaner essays published in the 1790’s transcended the boundaries of her world in recognizing the need for training women to earn their own living. Although, like Mercy Warren and Abigail Adams, she was brought up with the values of gentility, she knew through personal hardship that even women of her class might be forced to be self-supporting; education could provide independence for women in need, whether they were unmarried women or widows or wives.
Judith Sargeant Murray’s position can be best expressed by______.
选项 A、women should be well educated in order to support themselves
B、women’s rights must be protected by new laws
C、the accomplishments of women are ignored in most historical documents
D、women need to become more active in political affairs
答案A
解析 本题属细节题，提问Judith Sargeant Murray 的观点。她的主要观点出现在文章的最后，其观点是：妇女无论有什么背景，都应该接受良好的教育，这样，她们才能自立。选项中， [B]，[C] 和[D] 各项的内容都不曾出现在关于Judith Sargeant Murray 观点的第三段文字中。
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