文章作者 100test 发表时间 2008:01:10 13:30:22
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优点Glatthaar accurately(大 )(奠定了全文大 的基调) describes the government’s discriminatory treatment of Black soldiers in pay, promotion, medical care, and job assignments,(小列举可暂时不看) appropriately emphasizing*4 the campaign by Black soldiers and their officers to get the opportunity to fight*4B. That chance remained limited throughout the war by army policies that kept most Black units serving in rear-echelon后方梯队 assignments and working in labor battalions. Thus, while their combat death rate was only one-third that of White units, their mortality rate*5 from disease, a major killer in his war, was twice as great*5C. Despite(转折后半句一定说没有障碍) these obstacles, the courage and effectiveness of several Black units in combat won increasing respect from initially skeptical or hostile White soldiers*6C. As one White officer put表达 it*6, “they have fought their way into the respect of all the army.”
缺点In trying to demonstrate the magnitude of this attitudinal change, however, Glatthaar seems to exaggerate(小-) the prewar racism of the White men who became officers in Black regiments. “Prior to the war,” (原话,可能会出题)he writes of these men, “virtually all of them held powerful racial prejudices.” While perhaps true(让步语气,注意看后半句) of those officers who joined Black units for promotion or other self-serving motives自私的目的, this statement misrepresents(-) the attitudes of the many abolitionists who became officers in Black regiments. Having spent years fighting against the race prejudice endemic风土病 in American society, they participated eagerly in this military experiment, which they hoped would help African Americans achieve freedom and postwar civil equality. By current standards of racial egalitarianism种族平均主义, these men’s paternalism家长式的作风 toward African Americans was racist. But to call their feelings “powerful racial prejudices” is to indulge in放纵,放任,滥用 generational chauvinism历史沙文主义—to judge past eras by present standards.
1. The passage as a whole can best be characterized as which of the following?