A. A critique of women's studies as an academic discipline
B. A report on the progress of women's studies programs in Japan
C. An assessment of the status of women's studies programs in the Japanese academia
D. An analysis of the philosophy of women's studies programs
E. An abbreviated history of women's studies programs in Japan in the 1970s
I chose B instead of OA-C .
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Sorry, we learnt about this thread a bit late. Thanks
AjiteshArun for chipping in.
This is one of the questions where you don't get a choice you wished for and need to rather go for the "best" among the given choices. B is a trap; a deliberate, close choice.
It's quite the battle between "report" versus "assessment" and "progress" versus "status". The deal maker is "assessment", a much better term than "report", given the construction of the passage- the first paragraph discusses the advent of such studies in mid-1970s and the second paragraph discusses the elusive nature of a report about the status two decades later. Hence, "analysis"/"assessment"/"evaluation"/"discussion" are more appropriate terms (for summarizing the content of the passage) than "report".
The talk about 1994 is for mentioning a report (about the "status" in 1992) that the author finds elusive. The purpose of the second paragraph is about "suggesting"/"discussing"/"analyzing"/"assessing" the (elusive nature of) indicated progress in the report rather than "reporting" a progress.
We have made a minor change in the question to make the distinction between two choices (B and C) little more apparent.
Trivia: "status" can be singular as well as plural and for present as well as past. Not knowing this may contribute to the elimination of C.
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Thanks for the note on 'status'. This is exactly why I faltered in this qs!