不够准确的，篇章2主要讲述的是一战对于男性和女性所带来的影响，当时的女性在一战时期取得一些成就。
长难词：ghastliness可怕糟透的 fissure裂开的 excise消费，货物税 censor检查 wholesome健全的有益健康的 exude流出 condescension 屈尊propaganda宣传 airy空气的 ascend上升 factual事实 alienate 舒缓远离ostensible表面的假装的 pendulum钟摆摇摆 morbid 病态的 13. Passage 2 is unlike Passage 1 in that Passage 2 (A) describes war as dehumanizing
(B) endorses the official view of the war
(C) discusses war in terms of how it affects women (D) tries to identify the root causes of the conflict (E) criticizes the censorship of information about the war
解析：C，这里我们可以从导言了解篇章2主要描述的是战争对于女性的影响。
14. The \(A) civilians' ignorance about the soldiers' experience (B) discrepancy between the experiences of men and of women
(C) behavior of the officers who led the battles
(D) guilt that civilians felt about sending young men off to war
(E) special privileges granted to war correspondents
解析：A，我们定位到这一段“Few soldiers wrote the truth in letters home for fear ofcausing needless uneasiness. If they did ever write the To truth, it was excised by company officers”我们可以看到civilian忽视士兵的感受，士兵害怕所以不会写事实。
15. The footnote about the battle of the Somme addsinformation that (A) shows how history has been rewritten to glorify
the war
(B) trivializes the dangers faced by most of the soldiers
(C) emphasizes the inaccuracy of the published reports (D) suggests that the costs of war outweighed its benefits
(E) offers a journalist's personal reflection on the war 16. In Passage I, the author suggests that the attitudes of \(A) the government's inadequate control over propaganda
(B) the lack of opportunities for soldiers to write home (C) the disparity between men’s and women's views of war
(D) efforts of pacifists to end the war (E) censored reports from the press
解析：C，关于这场战役文中的描述是“he first day's attack during the battle of the Somme* with25 an airy confidence which could not help but deepen thedivision between those on the spot and those at home.”对于这场战役的信心没有多少帮助，反而加深了战场的人与家里人的那些隔阂。 17. In line 33, \(A) award (B) believe (C) enter (D) supply (E) enrich
解析：B，这里的credit与该句子的factual testimony是同义词所以选择的是B相信。
18, in Passage 2, the author mentions Vera Brittain (line 40) primarily to
(A) support an argument by quoting material written at the time of the war
(B) present an example of the kind of powers women gained during the war
(C) describe how a writer manipulated the facts about the war
(D) discuss the wartime literature produced by women (E) dispute recent historians' views of the war
解析：A，作者提到verabritain是为了支持作者的观点，为作者的论点提供论据材料。
19. In line 58, the reference to \directly implies the author's assumption that
(A) families prospered more when women became head of the household
(B) soldiers were unaware of the fundamental change taking place in society
(C) women embraced their chance to work outside the home
(D) women were anxious about fulfilling family responsibilities
(E) women in domestic roles had previously exercised little authority
解析：E，这里作者所暗示的是前面提到的女性在家里所占有的地位和权利是非常小的。
20. In line 64, the \(A) women's literary output during the war
(B) women's pursuit of rights previously unavailable to them
(C) the change that men underwent after experiencing war
(D) the redistribution of power from the upper to the middle class
(E) the growing equalization of men's and women's wages
解析：B，找到64句中提到女性追求自己全力这场革命是很难的，这里会受到很多男性与生俱来的全力的压迫所以这里指的是很难得革命。 21, The author of Passage 2 implies that women's enthusiasm \(lines 74-75) because
(A) women's progress caused the deterioration of men's status
(B) women achieved recognition as the real peacemakers in the war
(C) women boasted that the war would be lost without them
(D) women celebrated the fact that they did not have to fight in the war
(E) women were enjoying power while men were in battle
解析：E，这里文末说的最后一段总结了文章的主题，女性在战争期间享有了一定的权利，这时候大部分的男性因为参加了战争，所以女性得到了发展。。
22. In lines 84-85, the discussion of women' s involvementwith \tasks and \(A) far-reaching consequences of women's roles during wartime
(B) extent to which women felt stifled in their traditional roles
(C) contrast between how women idealized war and what it was really like
(D) desire by women 10 escape the horrors of war (E) risks that women took to fight in the war
解析：B，这里的menial task 和fatal反映了女性在传统意义上的地位卑微，女性所表达出的这种愤恨。
23. What do Behind the Scenes (J.f the From (lines 16-17) and \have in common?
(A) Both caused needless uneasiness among civilians. (B) Both deliberately reflected the views of the government.
(C) Both changed the status quo for women in wartime Britain.
(D) Both encouraged writers to take their craft more seriously.
(E) Neither focused on the realities of the battlefield.
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