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一道英语阅读选择题，谢谢帮忙

Yoshiko Matsumoto has argued that young women probably never used as many of the highly deferential forms as older women. This highly polite style is no doubt something that young women have been expected to “grow into”—after all, it is a sign not simply of femininity, but of maturity and refinement, and its use could be taken to indicate a change in the nature of one’s social relations as well. One might well imagine little girls using exceedingly polite forms when playing house or imitating older women—in a fashion analogous to little girls’ use of a high-pitched voice to do “teacher talk” or “mother talk” in role play.
The fact that young Japanese women are using less deferential language is a sure sign of change—of social change and of linguistic change. But it is most certainly not a sign of the “masculization” of girls. In some instances, it may be a sign that girls are making the same claim to authority as boys and men, but that is very different from saying that they are trying to be “masculine.” Katsue Reynolds has argued that girls nowadays are using more assertive language strategies in order to be able to compete with boys in schools and out. Social change also brings not simply different positions for women and girls, but different relations to life stages, and adolescent girls are participating in new subcultural forms. Thus what may, to an older speaker, seem like “masculine” speech may seem to an adolescent like “liberated” or “hip” speech.
60. According to Yoshiko Matsumoto, the linguistic behavior observed in today’s young women ________.
A) may lead to changes in social relations
B) has been true of all past generations
C) is viewed as a sign of their maturity
D) is a result of rapid social progress
cet6 07年6月的一道题，我想问下您选的是什么，理由何在，谢谢

Answer 1

我觉得是A或者D。
文章提到现代的女孩已经不像从前的日子那样唯唯诺诺，为了在社会上工作上与男性竞争，她们的表现越来越独立刚强，说话生音也大了。第二段第一句也提到这是一个社会在转变的标志。
问题，今日年轻女性的行为：
A.也许会导致社会关系的改变
B.一直以来世世代代都这样
C.看作是她们成熟的标志
D. 社会急速进步的结果。

追问

我很奇怪，为什么不选C，我的依据是
This highly polite style is no doubt something that young women have been expected to “grow into”—...... taken to indicate a change in the nature of one’s social relations as well.

追答

各人观点和看法问题吧。社会改变了，女孩子不再像从前那样柔柔弱弱阴声细气，都是因为要工作要竞争。我自己不觉得说话大声或独立就等于成熟。

Answer 2

ung Japanese women are using less deferential language is a sure sign of change—of social change