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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.
What does the author mean by the statement that Abigail Adams "foresaw more than could be realized in her lifetime" (lines 1-2, para. 2)?
选项 A、No progress was made during her life.
B、She made predictions that eventually came true.
C、Her life was very short.
D、She didn’t want to become a public figure.
答案B
解析 尽管本题是关于一句话的意思，还应该归于词汇类题。这句话是第二段第一句话的一半部分，其意思是为：她当时“就预见到了在当时根本不能实现的情况”，而这些情况后来实现了，[D] 项的信息自然是正确的。
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