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新SAT官方指南阅读第四篇全解析
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ThispassageisadaptedfromVirginiaWoolf,ThreeGuineas. 1938byHarcout,Inc.Here,Woolfconsidersthe
situationofwomeninEnglishsociety.
Close at hand is a bridge over the RiverThames, an admirable vantage ground for us to
makeasurvey.Theriverflowsbeneath;bargespass,ladenwithtimber,burstingwithcorn;there
ononesidearethe domesandspiresofthe city;onthe other,Westministerandthe Housesof
Parliament.Itisaplacetostandonbythehour,dreaming.Butnotnow.Nowwearepressedfor
5 time. Now we are hereto consider facts; nowwe mustfix our eyes upon the procession-the
processionofthesonsofeducatedmen.
There they go, our brothers who have been educated at public schools and
universities,mountingthose steps, passing in and out of those doors, ascending those pulpits,
preaching, teaching, administering justice, practicing medicine, transacting business, making
10 money.Itisasolemnsightalways-aprocession,likeacaravanseraicrossingadesert….Butnow,
forthe pasttwentyyears orso, itisnolongerasight merely,a photograph,orfresco scrawled
uponthe walls oftime, at which we can lookwith merely an esthetic appreciation. For there,
trapesing alongatthetail endofthe procession,wegoourselves.Andthat makesadifference.
We who have looked so long at the pageant in books, or from a curtained window watched
15 educatedmenleavingthehouseataboutnine-thirtytogotoanoffice,returningtothehouseat
aboutsix-thirtyfrom an office, need lookpassively no longer.Wetoo can leavethe house,can
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