GWD12-10, 没有人问过

      Acting on the recommen-

       dation of a British government

       committee investigating the

Line       high incidence in white lead

  (5)       factories of illness among

employees, most of whom

were women, the Home Sec-

retary proposed in 1895 that

Parliament enact legislation

(10)      that would prohibit women from

holding most jobs in white lead

factories.  Although the

Women’s Industrial Defence

Committee (WIDC), formed

(15)      in 1892 in response to earlier

legislative attempts to restrict

women’s labor, did not dis-

count the white lead trade’s

potential health dangers, it

(20)      opposed the proposal, view-

       ing it as yet another instance

       of limiting women’s work

opportunities.  Also opposing

the proposal was the Society

(25)      for Promoting the Employment

of Women (SPEW), which

attempted to challenge it by

investigating the causes of ill-

ness in white lead factories.

(30)      SPEW contended, and WIDC

concurred, that controllable

conditions in such factories

       were responsible for the devel-

opment of lead poisoning.

(35)     SPEW provided convincing

evidence that lead poisoning

could be avoided if workers

were careful and clean and

      if already extant workplace

(40)     safety regulations were

stringently enforced.  How-

ever, the Women’s Trade

Union League (WTUL), which

had ceased in the late 1880’s

(45)      to oppose restrictions on

women’s labor, supported the

eventually enacted proposal,

in part because safety regu-

lations were generally not

(50)      being enforced in white lead

factories, where there were no

unions (and little prospect of

any) to pressure employers to

comply with safety regulations.

Q10:

The passage is primarily concerned with

presenting various groups’ views of the motives of those proposing certain legislation

contrasting the reasoning of various groups concerning their positions on certain proposed legislation

tracing the process whereby certain proposed legislation was eventually enacted

assessing the success of tactics adopted by various groups with respect to certain proposed legislation

evaluating the arguments of various groups concerning certain proposed legislation

正确选B,我选A, 我一直在AB中犹豫？最终还是选了A, a 是否侧重点错了，文章是说很多机构的观点，但是重在reasoning? 请问nn,我的观点是否正确？

我自己顶一下， 快考了，找nn 确认！

不是NN，我也做到这题。

A有两处不妥：1.三个机构是对legislation本身表达看法，而不是the motives of the legislation;

             2.the Home Sec-

retary proposed in 1895 that

Parliament enact legislation

                              所以 应该是proposed legislation,而不是proposing  legislation。

文中表达了三个机构的看法，并比较了这些看法原因，B更贴切。

open to discuss

恩  有道理  我是选A 的  但是我觉得B也有不妥啊 实际上没有什么比较 啊  只是提出了这几种观点而已啊