GWD4 5-7

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Q5 to Q7:

      Many scholars have theorized that

       economic development, particularly

       industrialization and urbanization, con-

Line       tributes to the growth of participatory

  (5)      democracy;  according to this theory, it

would seem logical that women would

both demand and gain suffrage in ever

greater numbers whenever economic

development expanded their economic

 (10)      opportunities.  However, the economic

development theory is inadequate to

explain certain historical facts about the

implementation of women’s suffrage.

For example, why was women’s suf-

 (15)      frage, instituted nationally in the United

States in 1920, not instituted nationally

in Switzerland until the 1970’s?  Indus-

trialization was well advanced in both

countries by 1920:  over 33 percent

 (20)      of American workers were employed

       in various industries, as compared

       to 44 percent of Swiss workers.

Granted, Switzerland and the United

States diverged in the degree to

 (25)      which the expansion of industry coin-

cided with the degree of urbanization:

only 29 percent of the Swiss population

lived in cities of 10,000 or more inhabi-

tants by 1920.  However, urbanization

 (30)      cannot fully explain women’s suffrage.

Within the United States prior to 1920,

for example, only less urbanized

       states had granted women suffrage.

Similarly, less urbanized countries

(35)         such as Cambodia and Ghana had

voting rights for women long before

Switzerland did.  It is true that Switzer-

land’s urbanized cantons (political

subdivisions) generally enacted

(40)         women’s suffrage legislation earlier

than did rural cantons.  However,

these cantons often shared other

characteristics—similar linguistic back-

grounds and strong leftist parties—that

may help to explain this phenomenon.

Q6:

The primary purpose of the passage is to

             

1. contrast two explanations for the implementation of women’s suffrage
2. demonstrate that one factor contributes more than another factor to the implementation of women’s suffrage
3. discuss the applicability of a theory for explaining the implementation of women’s suffrage
4. clarify certain assumptions underlying a particular theory about the implementation of women’s suffrage
5. explain how a particular historical occurrence was causally connected to the implementation of women’s suffrage

Answer: C

此题为何不选B呢