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【单选题】Elizabeth was fortunate to be born in the lull flush of Renaissance enthusiasm for education. Women had always been educated of course, for had not St. Paul said that women were men’s equals in the possession of a soulBut to the old idea that they should be trained inChristian manners and thought was now added a new purpose: to quicken the spirit and train them in the craft and eloquence of the classical authors of Greece and Rome.Critics were not wanting, morbidly obsessed with the weaknesses of the sex-- its love of novelty and inborn tendency to vice -- to think women dangerous enough without adding to their subtlety and forwardness; but they were not able to stem the tide.
Henry VII’s mother was one of the first to indicate the new trenD、She knew enough French to translate "The Mirror of God for the Sinful Soul" and was the patron ofCaxton, the firstEnglish printer, and a liberal benefactor to the universities. Sir Thomas More’s daughters studied Greek, Latin, philosophy,Astronomy, Physic,Arithmetic, Logic, Rhetoric and Musi
C、In his household women were treated as men’s equals in conversation and wit, and scholars boasted of them in letters to friends abroaD、
The movement was strengthened from abroad byCatherine ofAragon, Henry VIII’S Spanish Queen. In the Spain of her childhood ladies were the friends of scholars Vives, one of the most refreshing figures in the history of education, to write a plan of studies for the education of her daughter Mary.
This was the heritage into Which the sharp-witted childElizabeth entereD、At six years old, it was said, she was precociously intelligent and had as much gravity as if she had been forty. Little is known of her education until her tenth year, when she became the pupil of theCambridge humanists, RogerAscham and William Grindall, but she was already learning French and Italian and must have been well grounded in Lation.Ascham helped her to form that beautiful Italian hand she wrote on all special occasions and with him she spent the morning on Greek, first the New Testament and then the classical authors, translating them first intoEnglish and then back into the original. The afternoons were given over to Latin, and she also studied Protestant theology, kept up her French and Italian and later learned Spanish. When she was sixteenAscham wrote: " Her mind has no womanly weakness, her perseverance is equal to that of a man, and her memory long keeps what it quickly picks up." Though it is easy to be cynical about the reputed accomplishments of the great,Elizabeth was notoriously quick and intelligent and had a real love of learning.Even as queen she did not abandon her studies.
Women’s education in the MiddleAges was intended to make them into goodChristians, but in the Renaissance the idea was to ______.A．make them superior to men in religion and intellectual matters.
B．make them less religious and more rationed and intellectual.

C、make up for their weaknesses of character and brain.
D．develop both their religious and their intellectual capacities.

网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
归纳题。文章的第一段提到了时代特征并指出：“But to the old idea that they should be trained in Christian manners and thought was now added a new purpose：to quicken the spirit and train them in the craft and eloquence of the classical authors of Greece and Rome.”以此推断选择D是正确的。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>