首页
财务会计
医药卫生
金融经济
考公考编
外语考试
学历提升
职称考试
建筑工程
IT考试
其他
登录
职称考试
请阅读Passage 2,完成第小题。 Passage 2 NBA centre Jason Collins recently announced h...
请阅读Passage 2,完成第小题。 Passage 2 NBA centre Jason Collins recently announced h...
admin
2020-12-24
19
问题
请阅读Passage 2,完成第小题。
Passage 2
NBA centre Jason Collins recently announced he was gay in a cover story for Sports
Illustrated. In other words, he"came out of the closet." This expression for revealing one's homosexuality may seem natural. Being in the closet implies hiding from the outside world, and the act of coming out of it implies the will to stop hiding. But though the closet has long been a metaphor for privacy or secrecy, its use with reference to homosexuality is relatively recent.
According to George Chauncey's comprehensive history of modern gay culture, Gay New York, the closet metaphor was not used by gay people until the 1960s. Before then, it doesn't appear anywhere"in the records of the gay movement or in the novels, diaries, or letters of gay men and lesbians."
"Coming out," however, has long been used in the gay community, but it first meant something different than it does now."A gay man's coming out originally referred to his being formally presented to the largest collective manifestation of prewar gay society, the enormous drag balls that were patterned on the debutante and masquerade balls of the dominant culture and were regularly held in New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore, and other cities." The phrase"coming out" did not refer to coming out of hiding, but to joining into a society of peers. The phrase was borrowed from the world of debutante balls, where young women"came out" in being officially
introduced to society.
The gay debutante balls were a matter of public record and often covered in the newspaper, so"coming out" within gay society often meant revealing your sexual orientation in the wider society as well, but the phrase didn't necessarily carry the implication that if you hadn't yet come out, you were keeping it a secret. There were other metaphors for the act of hiding or revealing homosexuality. Gay people could "wear a mask" or "take off the mask". A man could "wear his hair up" or "let his hair down", or "drop hairpins" that would only be recognized by other gay men.
It is unclear exactly when gay people started using the closet metaphor, but "it may have been used initially because many men who remained 'covert' thought of their homosexuality as a sort of'skeleton in the closet'." It may also have come from outsiders who viewed it that way. It seems that"coming out of the closet" was born as a mixture of two metaphors: a debutante proudly stepping into the arms of a community and a shocking secret being kept in hiding. Now. the community is the wider community, and the secret is no longer shocking,"Coming out" is a useful phrase, but it need not imply a closet.
Which of the following statement about "coming out" is True?
查看材料
选项
A.Closet is always the metaphor of homosexuality.
B.The original meaning of the phrase is the revealing of homosexuality.
C.The phrase was borrowed from the world of debutante balls.
D.The phrase "coming out" only refers to coming out of hiding.
答案
C
解析
A项意为“‘柜’一直是同性恋的隐喻”,这与第二段“…the closet metaDhor was not used by gay people until the l960s."相矛盾,因此错误;B选项意为“‘出柜’最初的意思是公开同性恋”.这与第三段“A gay mall’s coming out originally referred to his being formally presented to the largest collective manifestation of prewar gay society”不相符;C选项意为“‘出柜’一词是从上流女子舞会里借用过来的”,与第三段“The phrase was borrowed from the world of debutante balls”相符合,故正确;D项与第三段“The phrase‘coming out’did not refer to coming out of hiding”意思相反。因此选择C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://ti.zuoweng.com/ti/mBT8KKKQ
相关试题推荐
Passage2 Americanstodaydon′tplaceaveryhighvalueonintellect.Ourhe...
Passage2 Americanstodaydon′tplaceaveryhighvalueonintellect.Ourhe...
Passage2 Americansdon’tliketolosewars.Ofcourse,alotdependsonhowy...
Passage2 Americansdon’tliketolosewars.Ofcourse,alotdependsonhowy...
Passage2 Americansdon’tliketolosewars.Ofcourse,alotdependsonhowy...
Passage2 Americansdon’tliketolosewars.Ofcourse,alotdependsonhowy...
Passage2 Americansdon’tliketolosewars.Ofcourse,alotdependsonhowy...
Passage2 Ofallthecomponentsofagoodnight′ssleep,dreamsseemtobe...
Passage2 Ofallthecomponentsofagoodnight′ssleep,dreamsseemtobe...
Passage2 ForcenturiesinSpainandLatinAmerica,headinghomeforluncha...
随机试题
某煤矿2018年11月用其自采的原煤加工洗选煤300万吨,为职工宿舍供暖使用3万
绩效考评的( )不是由考评者的主观性带来的。
弱电机房各个机房宜采用联合接地方式,接地电阻值应小于()。
在伦敦举行的父母与子女会议上,英国“0至3岁”公司总裁马修;梅尔梅德说,很多父母
油田开发工程 为满足国内成品油需求强劲势头,A省拟开发建设某油田开发区块,开发
金瓷冠唇侧牙体磨除厚度一般为
银行必须对单一法人客户进行担保分析,这个所谓的“担保”主要是为了()。 A.
关于乳腺脓肿的治疗原则,下列哪项是错误的:A.切开引流时取放射状切口B.乳晕下脓肿应沿乳晕边缘做弧形切口C.切开引流时,应避免切开脓肿隔膜D.乳房
患者,女,畏光、发热和呕吐,入院时血液学检查示轻度淋巴细胞减少,C反应蛋白和白细胞计数正常。 白细胞计数增多常见于A.流行性感冒B.风疹C.疟疾D.伤寒
共用题干 2007年5月26日,陈绅基、王建、何静3人签订“立洋会计师事务所出资协议”,约定陈绅基和何静各出资3.4万元,各占34%比例,王建出资3.2...