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Marianne Hardwick was timid and unadventurous, her vitality consumed by physical activity and longing, her intelligence by indec

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问题      Marianne Hardwick was timid and unadventurous, her vitality consumed by physical activity and longing, her intelligence by indecisiveness, but this had less to do with the innate characteristics of the weaker sex ( as her father, Creighton Montgomery, called it) than with the enfeebling circumstances of here upbringing. Creighton Montgomery had enough money to mould his daughters according to his misconceptions: girls were not meant to fend for themselves so he protected them from life. That means that Marianne Montgomery grew up without making any vital choices for herself. Prevented front acquiring the habits of freedom and strength of character that grow from decision-making, very rich girls, whose parents have the means to protect them in such a crippling fashion, are the last representatives of Victorian womanhood. Though they may have the boldest manners and most up-to-date ideas, they share their great grandmothers’ humble dependence.
      Most parents these days have to rely on their force of personality and whatever love and respect they can inspire to exert any influence over their children at all, but there is still an awful lot of parental authority that big money can buy. Multi-millionaires have more of everything than ordinary mortals, including more parent power, and their sons and daughters have as much opportunity to develop according to their own inclinations as they could have had in the age of absolute monarchy①.
     The rich still have families.
     The great division between the generations, which is so much taken for granted that no one remarks on it any longer, is the plight of the lower and middle classes, whose children begin to drift away as soon as they axe old enough to go to school②. The parents cannot control the school, and have even less say to what company and ideas the child will be exposed to; nor can they isolate hint from the public mood, the spirit of the age. It is an often-heard complaint of the middle-class mother, for instance, that she must let her children watch television for hours on end everyday if she is to steal any time for herself. The rich have no such problems; they can keep their offspring busy from morning to night without being near them for a minute more than they choose to be, and can exercise almost total control over their environment. As for schooling, they can hand-pick tutors with sound views to come to the children, who may never leave the grounds their parents own, in town, in the country, by the sea, unless for an exceptionally secure boarding school or a well-chaperoned trip abroad, It would have been easier for little Marianne Montgomery to go to Cairo than to the nearest newsstand.
Which of the following best describes the tone of the passage?
选项 A、Angry and indignant.
B、Factual and informative.
C、Humorously critical.
D、Cautiously optimistic.
答案C
解析 观点态度题。第一段第二句话说“…他保护自己的女儿免于与外界接触”，第四句话“她们的父母以这种扭曲的方式来保护她们”，“她们是维多利亚时代女性的最后代表”；第二段第二句提到富翁父母可以买来更多的权威(掌管子女的命运)；最后一段第三句提到中产阶级母亲的抱怨，最后一句对富人孩子的描述，都带有一种调侃戏谑的味道。纵观全文，作者是在以一种幽默调侃的语气来批评霸道的富翁父母以及柔弱的孩子。
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