Câu 3: Quinine, cinnnamon, and other useful substances are all derived of the bark of trees.
A. are B. bark of trees
C. derived of D. other useful substances
Read the following passage and mark the letter A,B,C or D on your answer sheet
to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 4 to 10.
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, almost nothing was written about the
contributions of women during the colonial period and the early history of the newly formed
United States. Lacking the right to vote and absent from the seats of power, women were not
considered an important force in history. Anne Bradstreet wrote some significant poetry in
the seventeenth century, Mercy Otis Warren produced the best contemporary history of the
American Revolution, and Abigail Adams penned important letters showing she exercised
great political influence over her husband, John, the second President of the United States.
But little or no notice was taken of these contributions. During these centuries, women
remained invisible in history books.
Throughout the nineteenth century, this lack of visibility continued, despite the efforts
of female authors writing about women. These writers, like most of their male counterparts,
were amateur historians. Their writings were celebratory in nature, and they were uncritical
in their selection and use of sources.
During the nineteenth century, however, certain feminists showed a keen sense of
history by keeping records of activities in which women were engaged. National, regional,
and local women's organizations compiled accounts of their doings. Personal correspondence,
newspaper clippings, and souvenirs were saved and stored. These sources from the core of
the two greatest collections of women's history in the United States one at the Elizabeth and
Arthur Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, and the other the Sophia Smith Collection at
Smith College. Such sources have provided valuable materials for later Generations of
historians.
Despite the gathering of more information about ordinary women during the nineteenth
Century, most of the writing about women conformed to the "great women" theory of
History, just as much of mainstream American history concentrated on "great men." To
demonstrate that women were making significant contributions to American life, female
authors singled out women leaders and wrote biographies, or else important women produced
their autobiographies. Most of these leaders were involved in public life as reformers,
activists working for women's right to vote, or authors, and were not representative at all of
the great of ordinary woman. The lives of ordinary people continued, generally, to be untold
in the American histories being published.
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