好像没有人问过 GWD-12-Q8 to Q10

Raymond_GMAT

GWD-12-Q8 to Q10
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.

Q10:  The passage is primarily concerned with
A.    presenting various groups’ views of the motives of those proposing certain legislation
B.    contrasting the reasoning of various groups concerning their positions on certain proposed legislation
C.    tracing the process whereby certain proposed legislation was eventually enacted
D.    assessing the success of tactics adopted by various groups with respect to certain proposed legislation
E.    evaluating the arguments of various groups concerning certain proposed legislation

答案是B，为什么不选a呢？求助大家。

mayu912912

我觉得没有evaluate，只是罗列
所以我选B

nimabide

对于E的话，就如你所说，文中罗列几个观点，但是并没有evaluate 他们啊，只是列出来做了个对比而没有进行深入的分析，文章也并没有对哪个观点发表态度，因此我觉得E是不对的。

nimabide

proposing的意思是支持吧，而原文不光有支持的，还有反对这个legislation的吧，而且原文中有一段有个对比：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), 这里面的however表明了这两个组织观点的对比，因此我觉着选B没有问题。

qsea

感觉如果要是用evalute的话，应该会有作者主观的观点呈现。但是这个文章里都是别人的观点罗列，没有作者观点出现，所以用contrast会更好。

pennyrun

同意LS，这题是不是该选E啊。。。

forevercoco

同疑惑这题，我选的是E，觉得A中的motives有点偏，因为文章并没有说到motive，对于B，我觉得也没有contrast的意思，只是列举几个组织的观点而已

renco

原文一直说的是不同组织对这个法案的态度 A里面问的是对这个法案的动机的理解 其实是没有交集的

小鬼和灵

我也选的B
觉得A的motive 动机这个词 强调各group自身的动机
B的reasoning就比较广泛了，groups可能不是出于自身利益对proposed legislation作出不同的回应……

解释很牵强 我知道……

其实还疑惑B中contrast  本文对比的意味不浓啊，我觉得就是简单的罗列各group的看法而已


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安然向人

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