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(1)In the seventeenth-century Florentine textile industry, women were employed primarily in lowpaying, low-skill jobs. To explain this segregation of labor by gender, economists have relied on (5) the useful theory of human capital. According to this theory, investment in human capital—the acquisition of difficult job-related skills—generally benefits individuals by making them eligible to engage in well-paid occupations. Women's role as (10) child bearers, however, results in interruptions in their participation in the job market (as compared with men's) and thus reduces their opportunities to acquire training for highly skilled work. In addition, the human capital theory explains why (15) there was a high concentration of women workers in certain low-skill jobs, such as weaving, but not in others, such as combing or carding, by positing that because of their primary responsibility in child rearing women took occupations that could be (20) carried out in the home.
There were, however, differences in pay scales that cannot be explained by the human capital theory. For example, male construction workers were paid significantly higher wages than female (25) taffeta weavers. The wage difference between these two low-skill occupations stems from the segregation of labor by gender: because a limited number of occupations were open to women, there was a large supply of workers in their fields, and (30) this "overcrowding" resulted in women receiving lower wages and men receiving higher wages.
题目是这样的~ 44. The author of the passage would be most likely to describe the explanation provided by the human capital theory for the high concentration of women in certain occupations in the seventeenth-century Florentine textile industry as (A) well founded though incomplete (B) difficult to articulate (C) plausible but poorly substantiated (D) seriously flawed. (E) contrary to recent research 答案选A。 答案是A证明这道题应该定位全文。但是我认为应该定位第一段,因为第二段都是讲的“wage difference不能被theory of human capital解释”的问题,只有第一段提到了"high concentration of woman in certain occupations"的问题;而且更为确切的,我认为应该定位第一段末句。所以,我选的C,即可行但没有强有力的证据支持。 所以。。。各位CDer,我是哪里理解错了~?求敲醒!!! |
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