og44-266题

caesar2005

没找到有人问这个题，我就问问了。

266. Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the explanation provided by the human

capital theory for women’s concentration in certain occupations in seventeenth-century Florence?

(A)   Women were unlikely to work outside the home even in occupations whose hourse were flexible enough to allow women to accommodate domestic tasks as well as paid labor.

(B)    Parents were less likely to teach occupational skills to their daughters than they were to their sons.

(C)    Women’s participation in the Florentine paid labor force grew steadily throughout the xisteenth and seventeenth centuries.

(D)    The vast amjority of female weavers in the Florenine wool industry had children. (A)

(E)     Few women worked as weavers in the Florentine silk industry, which was devoted to making cloths that requried a high degree of skill to produce.

This question asks you to consider the effect that certain additional information would have on the

strength of an explanation provided in the passage. The correct answer choice will be the one that

would, if true, most weaken the explanation. Choice A is the best answer. The human capital

theory explanation posits that women were more likely to take jobs that could be done at home

because that allowed the women also to attend to domestic child-rearing duties. If women had

been unlikely to work outside the home even in jobs with hours flexible enough to accommodate

domestic work as well, then the need to attend to domestic tasks would not appear to be a

sufficient explanation for the high concentrations of women who opted to work at home. Choice B

is incorrect because a differential teaching of occupational skills by parents to their children

according to gender does not weaken the human capital theory explanation. Choice C is incorrect:

since women who worked at home and women who worded outside the home were all part of the

paid labor force, a growth in the female paid labor force would not necessarily weaken the human

capital theory explanation. Choice D is not correct because the explanation asserts that women

tended to choose weaving as an occupation because it allowed them to stay home and attend to

child rearing. If the vast majority of female weavers had children this would support the

explanation, not weaken it. Choice E is incorrect. If the Florentine silk industry was a high-skilled

sector of the weaving industry, the human capital theory explanation would lead you to expect few

women to be employed in that sector. Thus choice E, rather than weakening the explanation,

accords with it.

这个题的D选项为什么是support the explanation？

那个解释是说，妇女在家里工作，是因为可以看孩子之类的。D说工厂里的女工都有孩子，虽然不是直接weaken，但也不是支持吧。请NN们指教一下，谢谢！！！

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caesar2005

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weaving, but not in others, such as combing or carding, by positing that because of their primary

responsibility in child rearing women took occupations that could be carried out in the home.

文章中的原话是这样的。这里的carry out in the home不是说的在家里工作么？

如果我理解没有错，那么在家里工作跟在工厂里工作是直接冲突的啊。

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-11-19 0:41:45编辑过]

caesar2005

The human capital

theory explanation posits that women were more likely to take jobs that could be done at home

because that allowed the women also to attend to domestic child-rearing duties.

og解释先是说妇女喜欢的工作是可以在家里做的，因为他们可以照顾孩子。D说有大量的妇女在工厂里做，那也是一种weaken吧，为什么解释D的时候说是support呢