gre考试阅读真题解析(B)_GRE阅读

gre考试阅读真题解析(B)

　　emphasize the need to find connections between recent historical writing and the work of earlier historians

　　make a case for the importance of the views of the Progressive historians concerning eighteenth-century American life

　　suggest that Progressive historians were the first to discover the particular internal conflicts in eighteenth-century American life mentioned in the passage

　　point out historians whose views of history anticipated some of the views of the recent historians mentioned in the passage

　　19. According to the passage, Loyalism during the American Revolutionary War served the function of

　　eliminating the disputes that existed among those colonists who supported the rebel cause

　　drawing upper, as opposed to lower, socioeconomic classes away from the rebel cause

　　tolerating the kinds of socioeconomic discontent that were not allowed to exist on the rebel side

　　channeling conflict that existed within a socioeconomic class into the war effort against the rebel cause

　　absorbing members of socioeconomic groups on the rebel side who felt themselves in contention with members of other socioeconomic groups

　　20. The passage suggests that the author would be likely to agree with which of the following statements about the social structure of eighteenth-century American society?