Today, professors routinely treat the progressive interpretation of history and progressive public policy as the proper subject of study while portraying conservative or classical liberal ideas—such as free markets and self-reliance—as falling outside the boundaries of routine, and sometimes legitimate, intellectual investigation。
題目:
The author implies in Paragraph 5 that professors are 。
portray v。 扮演;描述;刻畫portray/consider/treat/regard/see/deem/think A as B 把A當做/認為是B
self-reliance 自力更生;自立
[句子結構分析]
這個句子由while切分成前后兩個部分。
前面的部分框架是 professors treat A as B,其中A是個and連接的并列結構。
while后面的部分是現在分詞結構作狀語(雙破里面的內容可以先不看),框架為:portray C as D 。
整個句子連起來就是 professors treat A as B while portray C as D。
while前后兩個層面,而且是相反的兩個層面。如果認為A是正向的,那么認為C就是負向的。
這里的D可能比較難理解,但是B是很好理解的,有明顯正向的詞proper。所以確定這里的professors對A(progressive interpretation of history and progressive public policy)的態度是正向的,對C(progressive interpretation of history and progressive public policy)的態度是負向的。
[正確答案]
句子分析完以后,答案就很明顯了。選擇C biased against classical liberal ideas 對古典的自由理念持有偏見。(對C的態度是負向的)