GMAT/GWD 28-25-27

水蓝27

Many politicians, business leaders, and scholars discount the role of public policy and emphasize the role of the labor market when explaining employers' maternity-leave policies, arguing that prior to the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993, employers were already providing maternity leave in response to the increase in the number of women workers.  Employers did create maternity-leave programs in the 1970's and 1980's, but not as a purely voluntary response in the absence of any government

mandate. In 1972, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled that employers who allowed leaves for disabling medical conditions must also allow them for maternity and that failure to do so would constitute sex

discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  As early as 1973, a survey found that 58 percent of large employers had responded with new maternity-leave policies. Because the 1972 EEOC ruling was contested in court, the ruling won press attention that popularized maternity-leave policies. Yet perhaps because the Supreme Court later struck down the ruling, politicians and scholars have failed to recognize its effects, assuming that employers adopted maternity-leave policies in response to the growing feminization of the workforce.

28-25: It can be inferred that the author of the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about government policy?

A: Government policy is generally unaffected by pressures in the labor market.

B:  The impact of a given government policy is generally weakened by sustained press attention.

C: It is possible for a particular government policy to continue to have an impact after that policy has been eliminated.

D: A given government policy can be counterproductive when that policy has already unofficially been implemented.

E: The impact of a given government policy is generally weakened when the ruling is contested in court.

我选的是C

28-26: missing

28-27: The passage suggests that the relationship between the view of the author with respect to maternity leave policy prior to passage of the FMLA and the view of the politicians, business leaders, and scholars mentioned in lines 1-2 can best be characterized by which of the following statements?

A: They agree that both the 1972 EEOC ruling on maternity-leave policy and the increasing feminization of the workplace had an impact on employers’ creation of maternity-leave programs but disagree about the relative importance of each factor.

B: They agree that the EEOC ruling on maternity-leave policy had an initial impact on employers’ creation of maternity-leave programs but disagree over whether the Supreme Court’s striking down of the EEOC ruling weakened that impact.

C: They agree that creating maternity-leave programs was a necessary response to the needs of the increasing number of women workers but disagree about whether maternity should be classified as a disabling medical condition.

D: They agree that employers created maternity-leave programs prior to passage of the FMLA but disagree about employers’ motivations for doing so.

E: They agree that employers created maternity-leave programs prior to passage of the FMLA but disagree about how widespread those programs were.

我选D

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[此贴子已经被作者于2005-9-28 13:47:48编辑过]

sherryly

i agree

leohymo

I disagree. The answer of GWD 28-25 seems to be D. ANd GWD 28-27 sounds to be B. Open to discussion.

yuyingchao

I agree with 水蓝27

28-25: C
D: 没有counterproductive (反效果)

28-27: D
B: 没有提到politicians, biz leaders, scholars同意EEOC的ruling产生的影响, 这里
    是作者提出

juningw

以下是引用水蓝27在2005-9-28 13:45:00的发言：

Many politicians, business leaders, and scholars discount the role of public policy and emphasize the role of the labor market when explaining employers' maternity-leave policies, arguing that prior to the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993, employers were already providing maternity leave in response to the increase in the number of women workers.  Employers did create maternity-leave programs in the 1970's and 1980's, but not as a purely voluntary response in the absence of any government

mandate. In 1972, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled that employers who allowed leaves for disabling medical conditions must also allow them for maternity and that failure to do so would constitute sex

discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  As early as 1973, a survey found that 58 percent of large employers had responded with new maternity-leave policies. Because the 1972 EEOC ruling was contested in court, the ruling won press attention that popularized maternity-leave policies. Yet perhaps because the Supreme Court later struck down the ruling, politicians and scholars have failed to recognize its effects, assuming that employers adopted maternity-leave policies in response to the growing feminization of the workforce.

28-25: It can be inferred that the author of the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about government policy?

A: Government policy is generally unaffected by pressures in the labor market.

B:  The impact of a given government policy is generally weakened by sustained press attention.

C: It is possible for a particular government policy to continue to have an impact after that policy has been eliminated.

D: A given government policy can be counterproductive when that policy has already unofficially been implemented.

E: The impact of a given government policy is generally weakened when the ruling is contested in court.

我选的是C

28-26: missing

28-27: The passage suggests that the relationship between the view of the author with respect to maternity leave policy prior to passage of the FMLA and the view of the politicians, business leaders, and scholars mentioned in lines 1-2 can best be characterized by which of the following statements?

A: They agree that both the 1972 EEOC ruling on maternity-leave policy and the increasing feminization of the workplace had an impact on employers’ creation of maternity-leave programs but disagree about the relative importance of each factor.

B: They agree that the EEOC ruling on maternity-leave policy had an initial impact on employers’ creation of maternity-leave programs but disagree over whether the Supreme Court’s striking down of the EEOC ruling weakened that impact.

C: They agree that creating maternity-leave programs was a necessary response to the needs of the increasing number of women workers but disagree about whether maternity should be classified as a disabling medical condition.

D: They agree that employers created maternity-leave programs prior to passage of the FMLA but disagree about employers’ motivations for doing so.

E: They agree that employers created maternity-leave programs prior to passage of the FMLA but disagree about how widespread those programs were.

我选D

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27题的答案是B，原文定位请看highlight部分。

drift_er

还是认为27题是D，第一段说的明确，maternity-leave 已经有，并且作者认为学者倾向于用人力资源市场原因来解释，而非政策原因。

shadowfax

25 选 C

27 选 B

同意juningw

hotlinda

以下是引用juningw在2005-10-29 18:22:00的发言：

27题的答案是B，原文定位请看highlight部分。

我怎么觉得你highlight的部分是25题的答案呢?

同意25题选C

  

另外,27题的B错在They agree that the EEOC ruling on maternity-leave policy had an initial impact on employers’ creation of maternity-leave programs

文章中两句话可以推出

1. employer自主creatematernity-leave programs ?(至少没有提到受到EEOC的影响)-  "Employers did create maternity-leave programs in the 1970's and 1980's, but not as a purely voluntary response in the absence of any government">>

2. EEOC只是要求employers去实施maternity-leave programs,并没有提到它对employers关于这个programs的creation有什么贡献。－ “In 1972, EEOC ruled that employers who allowed leaves for disabling medical conditions must also allow them for maternity”

同意27题选D

格瑞特艾力

我想问下,27T的D选项后半句disagree about employers’ motivations for doing so.定位在那里的?

>还有25题的定位和思路,谢谢.>

>文章不是很懂,怎么原来是employer's policy的会变成government policy的.>

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格瑞特艾力

有NN路过,来看下吧,谢谢了~