[求助]大全2772/63-P38-Q6置疑gemj注解

   

Passage 38 (38/63)
In Forces of Production, David Noble examines the transformation of the machine-tool 没有industry as the industry moved from reliance on skilled artisans to automation. Noble writes from a Marxist perspective, and his central argument is that management, in its decisions to automate, conspired against labor: the power that the skilled machinists wielded in the industry was intolerable to management. Noble fails to substantiate this claim (这个claim就是its decisions to automate, conspired against labor，也就是6B的内容，但是N没有证实这一点，所以6B不对), although his argument is impressive (6E)when he applies the Marxist concept of “de-skilling”—the use of technology to replace skilled labor—to the automation of the machine-tool industry. In automating, the industry moved to computer-based, digitized “numerical-control” (N/C) technology, rather than to artisan-generated “record-playback” (R/P) technology.

Although both systems reduced reliance on skilled labor, Noble clearly prefers R/P, with its inherent acknowledgment of workers’ skills: unlike N/C, its programs were produced not by engineers at their computers, but by skilled machinists, who recorded their own movements to “teach” machines to duplicate those movements. However, Noble’s only evidence of conspiracy is that, although the two approaches were roughly equal in technical merit, management chose N/C. From this he concludes that automation is undertaken not because efficiency demands it or scientific advances allow it, but because it is a tool in the ceaseless war of capitalists against labor.

6.                 The author of the passage commends Noble’s book for which of the following?（Q我觉得应该是D）

(A) Concentrating on skilled as opposed to unskilled workers in its discussion of the machine-tool industry

(B) Offering a generalization about the motives behind the machine-tool industry’s decision to automate

(C) Making an essential distinction between two kinds of technology employed in the machine-tool industry

(D) Calling into question the notion that managers conspired against labor in the automation of the machine-tool industry(这个选项和原文反了，因为原文最终认为管理这隐藏在自动化后面的阴谋是存在的，只是N没有证实而已)（E）

(E) Applying the concept of de-skilling to the machine tool industry(对，这个观点作者认为该赞扬)

   

本题我错误的选成了B．

7.                 Which of the following best characterizes Forces of Production as it is described in the passage?

(A) A comparison of two interpretations of how a particular industry evolved

(B) An examination of the origin of a particular concept in industrial economics

(C) A study that points out the weakness of a particular interpretation of an industrial phenomenon

(D) A history of a particular industry from an ideological point of view（D）

(E) An attempt to relate an industrial phenomenon in one industry to a similar phenomenon in another industry
请MM解释一下第7题，我怎么会选B呢？？？答案是D