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Acting on the recommendation of a British
government committee investigating the high
incidence in white lead factories of illness among
employees, most of whom were women, the Home
(5) Secretary proposed in 1895 that Parliament enact
legislation that would prohibit women from holding
most jobs in white lead factories. Although the
Women's Industrial Defence Committee (WIDC),
formed in 1892 in response to earlier legislative
(10) attempts to restrict women's labor, did not discount
the white lead trade's potential health dangers, it
opposed the proposal, viewing it as yet another
instance of limiting women's work opportunities.
Also opposing the proposal was the Society for
(15) Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW),
which attempted to challenge it by investigating the
causes of illness in white lead factories. SPEW
contended, and WIDC concurred, that controllable
conditions in such factories were responsible for the
(20) development of lead poisoning. SPEW provided
convincing evidence that lead poisoning could be
avoided if workers were careful and clean and if
already extant workplace safety regulations were
stringently enforced. However, the Women's Trade
(25) Union League (WTUL), which had ceased in the late
1880s to oppose restrictions on women's labor,
supported the eventually enacted proposal, in part
because safety regulations were generally not being
enforced in white lead factories, where there were
(30) no unions (and little prospect of any) to pressure
employers to comply with safety regulations.
85. Which of the following, if true, would most clearly
support the contention attributed to SPEW in
lines 17-20?
(A) Those white lead factories that most strongly
enforced regulations concerning worker safety
and hygiene had the lowest incidences of lead
poisoning among employees,
(B) The incidence of lead poisoning was much
higher among women who worked in white lead
factories than among women who worked in
other types of factories.
(C) There were many household sources of lead
that could have contributed to the incidence of
lead poisoning among women who also worked
outside the home in the late nineteenth century.
(D) White lead factories were more stringent than
were certain other types of factories in their
enforcement of workplace safety regulations.
(E) Even brief exposure to the conditions typically
found in white lead factories could cause lead
poisoning among factory workers.
正确答案选A。。为什么呀，哪位好心人给我解释解释
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