OG 11 Verbal 27 南丁格尔那篇

snowmary

Two recent publications offer different assessments of the career of the famous British nurse Florence Nightingale. A book by Anne Summers seeks to debunk the idealizations and present a reality at odds with Nightingale's heroic reputation．According to Summers，Nightingale's importance during the Crimean War has been exaggerated：not until near the war's end did she become supervisor of the female nurses．Additionally, Summers writes that the contribution of the nurses to the relief of the wounded was at best marginal．The prevailing problems of military medicine were caused by army organizational practices, and the addition of a few nurses to the medical staff could be no more than symbolic．Nightingale's place in the national pantheon，Summers asserts，is largely due t0 the propagandistic efforts of contemporary newspaper reporters．

    By contrast, the editors of a new volume of Nightingale's letters view Nightingale as a person who significantly influenced not only her own age but also subsequent generations．They highlight her ongoing efforts to reform sanitary conditions after the war．For example，when she learned that peacetime living conditions in British barracks were so horrible that the death rate of enlisted men far exceeded that of neighboring civilian populations，she succeeded in persuading the government to establish a Royal Commission on the Health of the Army. She used sums raised through public contributions to found a nurses’ training hospital in London．Even in administrative matters，the editors assert, her practical intelligence was formidable：as recently as 1947 the British Army's medical services were still using the cost-accounting system she had devised in the 1860’s.
                

    I believe that the evidence of her letters supports continued respect for Nightingale's brilliance and creativity. When counseling a village schoolmaster to encourage children to use their faculties of observation，she sounds like a modern educator．Her insistence on classifying the problems of the needy in order to devise appropriate treatments is similar to the approach of modern social workers．In sum，although Nightingale may not have achieved all of her goals during the Crimean War, her breadth of vision and ability to realize ambitious projects have earned her an eminent place among the ranks of social pioneers．

27． Which of the following is an assumption Underlying the author's assessment of Nightingale's creativity?

(A)  Educational philosophy in Nightingale's day did not normally emphasize developing children's ability to observe．

(B)  Nightingale was the first to notice the poor living conditions in British military barracks in  peacetime．

(C)  No educator before Nightingale had thought to enlist the help of village schoolmasters in  Introducing new teaching techniques．

(D)  Until Nightingale began her work，there was no concept of organized help for the needy in nineteenth-century Britain．

(E)  The British Army's medical services had no cost-accounting system until Nightingale devised one in the 1860’s．

E为什么不对呢？devise不是发明的意思嘛，为什么OG说：there is no assumption regarding the lack of a system previously。发明不就说明以前是没有的嘛？

翻过以前的帖子也有人问过这题，可是好像没有人回答。

希望NN指点！多谢！

lukeleng

the cost-accounting system she had devised in the 1860’s. 

没有说在她之前没有cost-accounting system ,她发明的是the cost-accounting system she had devised in the 1860’s. 

是说她发明的系统好,一直用到1947,

换个说法She was  the first one to devise one cost-accounting system ,

就跟B一样都是错的,没说她是第一个.

ＥＴＳ的陷阱！

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-9-18 19:41:27编辑过]

snowmary

i see。这个陷阱还真是……坑人呐……多谢指点！

发现GMAT的阅读好多都非常detail oriented，不是读了一遍文章就能凭记忆都做出来的

jynpu

我的OG上怎么没有这道题，也是OG11啊

lukeleng

OG11黄色和紫色上都有阅读题