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Directions: The next questions are based on the content of the following passage. Read the passage and then determine the best answer choice for each question.Base your choice on what this passage states directlyor implies, not on any information you may have gained elsewhere.

For each of Questions, select one answer choice unless otherwise instructeD、
Questions 17-19 are based on the following passage.
As the works of dozens of women
writers have been rescued from whatE、P.
Thompson calls "the enormous condescen-
Line sion of posterity," and considered in relation
(5) to each other, the lost continent of the
female tradition has risen likeAtlantis from
the sea ofEnglish literature. It is now
becoming clear that, contrary to Mill’s the-
ory, women have had a literature of their
(10) own all along. The woman novelist, accord-
ing to VinetaColby, was "really neither sin-
gle nor anomalous," but she was also more
than a "register and spokesman for her age."
She was part of a tradition that had its ori-
(15) gins before her age, and has carried on
through our own.
Many literary historians have begun to
reinterpret and revise the study of women
writers.Ellen Moers sees women’s literature
(20) as an international movement, "apart from,
but hardly subordinate to the mainstream:
an undercurrent, rapid and powerful. This
’movement’ began in the late eighteenth cen-
tury, was multinational, and produced some
(25) of the greatest literary works of two centuries,
as well as most of the lucrative pot-boilers."
Patricia Meyer Spacks, in The Female
Imagination, finds that "for readily discernible
historical reasons women have characteristi-
(30) cally concerned themselves with matters more
or less peripheral to male concerns, or at least
slightly skewed from them. The differences
between traditional female preoccupations
and roles and male ones make a difference in
(35) female writing." Many other critics are begin-
ning to agree that when we look at women
writers collectively we can see an imaginative
continuum, the recurrence of certain pat-
terns, themes, problems, and images from
generation to generation.