T9-Q7/Q9:看了前人的讨论，有些问题没涉及。再次请教。谢谢。T9-Q7/Q9: 看了前人的讨论，好像答案都不确定啊。再次请教。谢谢。

ppjelly · 发表于 2008-4-5 00:20:00

T-9-Q5-Q7

In American Genesis, which covers
the century of technological innovation
in the United States beginning in 1876,
Line
                                              Thomas Hughes assigns special promi-
(5)                 nence to Thomas Edison as archetype
of the independent nineteenth-century
inventor. However, Hughes virtually
ignores Edison’s famous contem-
porary and notorious adversary in
(10)               the field of electric light and power,
George Westinghouse. This com-
parative neglect of Westinghouse is
consistent with other recent historians’
works, although it marks an intriguing
(15)               departure from the prevailing view
during the inventors’ lifetimes (and for
decades afterward) of Edison and
Westinghouse as the two “pioneer
innovators ” of the electrical industry.
(20)                             My recent reevaluation of Westing-
house, facilitated by materials found
in railroad archives, suggests that
while Westinghouse and Edison shared
important traits as inventors, they
(25)               differed markedly in their approach to
the business aspects of innovation.
For Edison as an inventor, novelty
was always paramount: the overriding
goal of the business of innovation was
(30)               simply to generate funding for new
inventions. Edison therefore undertook
just enough sales, product development,
and manufacturing to accomplish this.
Westinghouse, however, shared the
(35)               attitudes of the railroads and other
industries for whom he developed
innovations: product development
standardization, system and order
were top priorities. Westinghouse
(40)               thus better exemplifies the systematic
approach to technological development
that would become a hallmark of modern
corporate research and development.
T-9-Q7

The author of the passage implies that the
shift away from the views of Westinghouse’s contemporaries should be regarded
as

surprising, given the stature that Westinghouse once had 答案选E，我只能通过排除法判断其他都错。可是E答案中“given the stature that Westinghouse once had”怎么翻译？？

The primary purpose of the passage is to

explain why a particular business strategy has been less
successful than was once anticipated

propose an alternative to a particular business strategy that
has inadvertently caused ecological damage

present a concern about the possible consequences of pursuing a
particular business strategy

make a case for applying a particular business strategy on a
larger scale than is currently practiced

suggest several possible outcomes of companies’ failure to
understand the economic impact of a particular business strategy 这题答案到底是啥啊？我选A。怎么现在觉得主旨题那么难，我几乎要错就是错这类题，模模糊糊的感觉啊！！郁闷。另外，我标红的那一句“were it to grow
much larger”是个什么语法啊？不懂。只能猜测意思是说如果“×××成长的更大会产生更多的垃圾”。请NN赐教。

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