QUININE, CINNNAMON, AND OTHER USEFUL SUBSTANCES ARE ALL DERIVED OF TH...

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.