Question

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
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.
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

Answer 1

60.
【原题】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
【答案解析】D)本题是推理题，考生需要通过逻辑分析来达到合理的结论。文章的第三段谈到这个问题，Yoshiko Matsumoto依此说，年轻女性不使用老一辈非常礼貌的语言，接着说高度礼貌的语言不仅仅是女性象征，也是成熟和优雅的象征，还暗示了社会关系的变化。即，当这些语言代表的复杂的社会关系不存在的话，表现这种关系的语言也要随之改变，不能一成不变。现代女性不使用高级敬语是社会快速发展的结果。

Answer 2

选A

就在你选的句子的后面一句。

不选C我觉得应该是你所选的句子前有个“but of” ，表示“而不是”

追问

有么有搞错

追答

木有吧