[补充]RC 产假的第三个问题（请考过的确认） - ChaseDream

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?

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.

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.

•The passage is primarily concerned with

A.A. reporting an author’s view of a phenomenon

B.B. disputing the reasons usually given for an
unexpected change

C.C. evaluating the conclusions reached by an
author

D.D. assessing the impact of certain legal
decisions.

E.E. defending a controversial point of view

这个答案跟另外一道阅读的第一道问题和答案一模一样，昨天刚做到，巧。

In colonial Connecticut between 1670 and 1719, women participated in one of every six civil cases, the
vast majority of which were debt-related. Women’s participation dropped to one in ten cases after 1719, and to one in twenty by the 1770’s. However, as Cornelia Hughes Dayton notes in Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789, these statistics are somewhat deceptive: in fact, both the absolute numbers and the percentage of adult women participating in civil cases grew steadily throughout the eighteenth century, but the legal activity of men also increased dramatically, and at a much faster rate. Single, married, and widowed women continued to pursue their own and their husbands’ debtors through legal action much as they had done in the previous century, but despite this continuity, their place in the legal system shifted dramatically. Men’s commercial interests and credit networks became increasingly far-flung, owing in part to the ability of creditors to buy and sell promissory notes (legal promises to pay debts). At the same time, women’s networks of credit and debt remained primarily local and personal. Dayton contends that, although still performing crucial economic services in their communities—services that contributed to the commercialization of the colonial economy—women remained for the most part outside the new economic and legal culture of the eighteenth century.