GWD-TN-9中附在最后的2道补充阅读理解题答案 GWD29-Q21 和 TTGWD-12-QX

lyen_wang

GWD29-Q21 的原文在GWD-12-Q8 to Q10处, 现将文章和题补充如下:

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 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 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 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 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 Union League (WTUL), which had ceased in the late 1880’s 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 no unions (and little prospect of any) to pressure employers to comply with safety regulations.

GWD29-Q21

The passage suggests that WIDC differed from WTUL in which of the following ways?

             

A.      WIDC believed that the existing safety regulations were adequate to protect women’s health, whereas WTUL believed that such regulations needed to be strengthened.

B.       WIDC believed that unions could not succeed in pressuring employers to comply with such regulations, whereas WTUL believed that unions could succeed in doing so.

C.      WIDC believed that lead poisoning in white lead factories could be avoided by controlling conditions there, whereas WTUL believed that lead poisoning in such factories could not be avoided no matter how stringently safety regulations were enforced.

D.      At the time that the legislation concerning white lead factories was proposed, WIDC was primarily concerned with addressing health conditions in white lead factories, whereas WTUL was concerned with improving working conditions in all types of factories.

E.       At the time that WIDC was opposing legislative attempts to restrict women’s labor, WTUL had already ceased to do so.

我选E, 但没有正确答案, 请教各位是否对.

[此贴子已经被作者于2009-4-26 14:52:43编辑过]

lyen_wang

TTGWD-12-QX 的原文在同一套题的GWD-12-Q24 to Q27 处, 补充如下:

 Years before the advent of plate tectonics―the widely accepted theory, developed in the mid-1960’s, the holds that the major features of Earth’s surface are created by the horizontal motions of Earth’s outer shell, or lithosphere ―a similar theory was rejected by the geological community.  In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed, in a widely debated theory that came to be called continental drift, that Earth’s continents were mobile. To most geologists today, Wegener’s The origin of Continents and Oceans appears an impressive and prescient document, containing several of the essential presumptions underlying plate tectonics theory: the horizontal mobility of pieces of Earth’s crust; the essential difference between oceanic and continental crust; and a causal connection between horizontal displacements and the formation of mountain chains.  Yet despite the considerable overlap between Wegener’s concepts and the later widely embraced plate tectonics theory, and despite the fact that continental drift theory presented a possible solution to the problem of the origin of mountains at a time when existing explanations were seriously in doubt, in its day Wegener’s theory was rejected by the vast majority of geologists.

       Most geologists and many historians today believe that Wegener’s theory was rejected because of its lack of an adequate mechanical basis.  Stephen Jay Gould, for example, argues that continental drift theory was rejected because it did not explain how continents could move through an apparently solid oceanic floor.  However, as Anthony Hallam has pointed out, many scientific phenomena, such as the ice ages, have been accepted before they could be fully explained.  The most likely cause for the rejection of continental drift ―a cause that has been largely ignored because we consider Wegener’s theory to have been validated by the theory of plate tectonics―is the nature of the evidence that was put forward to support it.  Most of Wegener’s evidence consisted of homologies—similarities of patterns and forms based on direct observations of rocks in the field, supported by the use of hammers, hand lenses, and field notebooks.  In contrast, the data supporting plate tectonics were impressively geophysical—instrumental determinations of the physical properties of Earth garnered through the use of seismographs, magnetometers, and computers.

TTGWD-12-QX:

The primary purpose of the passage is to

             

A.      trace the evolution of a scientific theory from its roots in the early twentieth century

B.       present two different explanations for a geologic phenomenon and compare their merits

C.      discuss the reception of a scientific theory and offer an explanation for its rejection

D.      challenge a traditional explanation for a geologic phenomenon

E.       explain the mechanical basis of certain geologic phenomena

这题我选C, 同样请教!

[此贴子已经被作者于2009-4-26 14:53:00编辑过]

lyen_wang

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sunny8843

lz我和你的答案一样。

Outsider1988

对 的

balance714

我也选E