探讨GWD-TN24-TEST6中两篇阅读

mmandli

Jon Clark’s study这篇，仔细想想GWD-8-Q26是选B。整个文章都是站在Clark的角度写的，Clark
makes the point that the characteristics of a technology have a
decisive influence on job skills and work organization. Put more
strongly, technology can be a primary determinant of social and
managerial organization.他认为technology客观的就是这样的角色，不会greater也不会less，不会因为人的认识不同而减弱。

Clark
believes this possibility has been obscured by the recent sociological
fashion, exemplified by Braverman’s analysis, that emphasizes the way
machinery reflects social choices.Clark认为这个this possibility（technology can be a primary determinant of social and
managerial organization）被obsured了。如果接受了social constructivism，就会认为the
shape of a technological system is subordinate to the manager’s desire
to wrest control of the labor process from the workers. Technological
change is construed as the outcome of negotiations among interested
parties who seek to incorporate their own interests into the design and
configuration of the machinery。也就是不能很好的理解 technology 在social change中的作用。也就是B答案。

GWD-8-Q28
Clark
shows how a change at the telephone exchange from maintenance-intensive
electromechanical switches to semi-electronic switching systems altered
work tasks, skills, training opportunities, administration, and
organization of workers.

如有不妥，请指正。

mmandli

第二篇single-parent families 经济状况的
GWD-8-Q35
As a solution, they challenge the government’s assumption that a family’s income should depend primarily on wages and urge the government to provide generous wage supplements (child and housing allowances) to single-parents whose wages are low.
这句话说，作为解决办法，他们挑战政府的假设－－即一个家庭的收入首要依靠工资，并且（他们）敦促政府提供慷慨的补助（儿童和房屋津贴）给那些工资低的单亲父母。
从这句话看出，既然挑战了政府的假设－－a family’s income should depend primarily on wages，那就是说文章暗示政策应该based on assumptions about the appropriate sources of family income，也就是B答案。

GWD-8-Q37
原文
Some economists believe that rigorous enforcement of existing equal pay laws would substantially decrease this wage inequity.
所以选A。

你考虑的是when women and men are concentrated in different occupations的情况。

mmandli

我分析的不好，不过楼主也并不喜欢讨论问题。

mmandli

嗯，我觉得你这道题的定位很有道理，比我准确。谢谢指正。这篇阅读在去年八月考过原题。