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nina_nn

 For many years, historians thought

       that the development of capitalism had not

       faced serious challenges in the United

Line       States.  Writing in the early twentieth cen-

  (5)      tury, Progressive historians sympathized

with the battles waged by farmers and

small producers against large capitalists

in the late nineteenth century, but they did

not question the widespread acceptance

 (10)      of laissez-faire (unregulated) capitalism

throughout American history.  Similarly,

Louis Hartz, who sometimes disagreed

with the Progressives, argued that Amer-

icans accepted laissez-faire capitalism

 (15)      without challenge because they lacked

a feudal, precapitalist past.  Recently,

however, some scholars have argued

that even though laissez-faire became

the prevailing ethos in nineteen-century

 (20)      America, it was not accepted without

       struggle.  Laissez-faire capitalism, they

       suggest, clashed with existing religious

and communitarian norms that imposed

moral constraints on acquisitiveness to

 (25)      protect the weak from the predatory, the

strong from corruption, and the entire cul-

ture from materialist excess.  Buttressed

by mercantilist notions that government

should be both regulator and promoter

 (30)      of economic activity, these norms per-

sisted long after the American Revolution

helped unleash the economic forces that

       produced capitalism.  These scholars

argue that even in the late nineteenth

(35)         century, with the government’s role in

the economy considerably diminished,

laissez-faire had not triumphed com-

pletely.  Hard times continued to revive

popular demands for regulating busi-

 (40)      ness and softening the harsh edges of

laissez-faire capitalism.

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Q35:

The primary purpose of the passage is to

             

1. reveal the underlying similarities of certain arguments regarding the development of capitalism in the United States
2. synthesize two competing arguments regarding the development of capitalism in the United States
3. defend an established argument regarding the development of capitalism in the United States
4. summarize a scholarly refutation of an argument regarding the development of capitalism in the United States
5. discuss a new methodology for the study of the development of capitalism in the United States

答案是d，c是怎么排除的？

rio

以下是引用nina_nn在2007-4-3 22:24:00的发言：

 For many years, historians thought

       that the development of capitalism had not

       faced serious challenges in the United

Line       States.  Writing in the early twentieth cen-

  (5)      tury, Progressive historians sympathized

with the battles waged by farmers and

small producers against large capitalists

in the late nineteenth century, but they did

not question the widespread acceptance

 (10)      of laissez-faire (unregulated) capitalism

throughout American history. 
                        Similarly,

Louis Hartz, who sometimes disagreed

with the Progressives, argued that Amer-

icans accepted laissez-faire capitalism

 (15)      without challenge because they lacked

a feudal, precapitalist past.  Recently,

however, some scholars have argued

that even though laissez-faire became

the prevailing ethos in nineteen-century

 (20)      America, it was not accepted without

       struggle.  Laissez-faire capitalism, they

       suggest, clashed with existing religious

and communitarian norms that imposed

moral constraints on acquisitiveness to

 (25)      protect the weak from the predatory, the

strong from corruption, and the entire cul-

ture from materialist excess.  Buttressed

by mercantilist notions that government

should be both regulator and promoter

 (30)      of economic activity, these norms per-

sisted long after the American Revolution

helped unleash the economic forces that

       produced capitalism.  These scholars

argue that even in the late nineteenth

(35)         century, with the government’s role in

the economy considerably diminished,

laissez-faire had not triumphed com-

pletely.  Hard times continued to revive

popular demands for regulating busi-

 (40)      ness and softening the harsh edges of

laissez-faire capitalism.

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Q35:

The primary purpose of the passage is to

             

1. reveal the underlying similarities of certain arguments regarding the development of capitalism in the United States
2. synthesize two competing arguments regarding the development of capitalism in the United States
3. defend an established argument regarding the development of capitalism in the United States
4. summarize a scholarly refutation of an argument regarding the development of capitalism in the United States
5. discuss a new methodology for the study of the development of capitalism in the United States

答案是d，c是怎么排除的？

C seems to be related but the author never tried to defend any point just presented several sources of a new point of view. actually the passage is to refute an argument mentioned in the beginning of the passage 

nina_nn

谢谢rio