请教一篇British company的阅读

壹呀 · 发表于 2018-1-10 23:29:22

The experience of British business in Iran between the 1860's and the 1970's is one example of the changingimportance of British enterprise in Asia as a whole. Before 1914 British business established and dominated Iran's modern industrial and financial sector; in the 1920's this domination began to wane; by the 1960's British enterprise was of little importance in the Iranian economy. While in Japan and India the decline of British business was primarily a function of the rise of strong indigenous business groups, in Iran, by contrast, the government played a large role in both challenging British commercial interests and stimulating locally owned enterprise. Periodic surges of intense Iranian economic nationalism must be understood partly as a reaction to the close relations between British business in Iran and the British government. In retrospect, it is possible to see the uneasy and ambiguous nature of this relationship. It is true that the British Imperial Bank in Iran was never entirely a tool of the British government, and that the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company did not take its orders from the British government, despite the 51 percent government shareholding. However, the relationship between British business and the British government was sufficiently close that many Iranians understandably viewed the oil company and the bank as symbols of a British imperialist policy.

请问a function of这里是什么意思？

The author of the passage mentions the British government's shares in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company most probably in order to

A demonstrate the British enterprise in Iran was controlled by the British government

B contrast British-run businesses in Iran with Iranian-run businesses in Iran

C show how joint British and Iranian enterprises were encouraged by the British government

D illustrate a point about the financial difficulties faced by British businesses in Asia

E suggest a reason for Iranians' perception of the role British government played in British business

比如说这道题，我看到题目说government's shares然后对应原文，我当时就看到了despite the 51 percent government shareholding，所以就选了A，说明英国政府还是在控制英国公司的。结果答案是E，可是我觉得题目问的是Anglo-Iranian Oil的share而不是Anglo-Iranian Oil。看到答案之后大概知道in order to出题的套路，可是share不是不一样吗？还是我想太多了。

又比如这道题
The primary purpose of the passage is to

A evaluate a country's solution to a problem

B describe differing perceptions of a historical event

C contrast historical events in two countries

D provide an explanation for a historical phenomenon

E challenge an accepted explanation for a historical change

请问从哪里看得出一个historical phenomenon？

请教一篇British company的阅读

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