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It is possible for students to obtain advanced degree in English while knowing little or nothing about traditional scholarly methods. The consequences of this neglect of traditional scholarship are particularly unfortunate for the 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 a sequence of editions, and so on are lacking 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 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 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 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 be all 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 visions, enough to provide illustrations of editorial issues but not too many for beginning students to manage. In addition, because Griffith was successful in the eighteenth century, as her continued productivity and favorable reviews demonstrate, her exclusion from the canon and virtual disappearance from literary history also helped raise issues concerning the current canon.
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 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 students-I hope for a lifetime-against credulous use of reference sources.

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Directions:Please match each word in the left column with the corresponding explanation in the right one.
1. anguish A. with no one present (said of a place)
2. ascend B. hatred between people or groups of people
3. belligerent C. mental or physical suffering caused by extreme pain or worry
4. deserted D. covered with deep wrinkles
5. antagonism E. to send out a weak unsteady light
6. furrowed F. a loud outcry
7. glimmer G. to go or come up
8. clamor H. intimidating
9. daunting I. suitable for a royal court
10. courtly J. given to or marked by hostile or aggressive behavio

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Body paint or face paint is used mostly by men in pre literate societies in order to attract good health or to ________ disease.

A) set aside B) ward off C) shrug off D) give away

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I would rather stay than otherwise for I must settle down this morning and finish the term paper.

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ID：9121-12871（本题为引用材料试题，请根据材料回答以下问题）
We can infer from the passage that _______.
A. standardized tests should no longer be used.
B. results of standardized tests accurately reflect the abilities of the testees
C. the value of standardized tests lies in their proper interpretation
D. special methods must be applied to the result of standardized tests.

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__________ those nice days, Elizabeth couldn’t help giving out a sigh.
A. Reflecting of B. Inflecting upon
C. Reflecting upon D. Inflecting of

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