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柿子头

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.

Q7:

The passage suggests which of the following about urbanization in Switzerland and the United States by 1920?

1. A greater percentage of Swiss industrial workers than American industrial workers lived in urban areas.


2. There were more cities of 10,000 or more inhabitants in Switzerland than there were in the United States.


3.   Swiss workers living in urban areas were more likely to be employed in industry than were American workers living in urban areas.


4. Urbanized areas of Switzerland were more likely than similar areas in the United States to have strong leftist parties.


5. A greater percentage of the United States population than the Swiss population lived in urban areas.

我选C，答案是E,  有什么根据吗？33%美国工人就业，44%瑞士工人就业，不应该选C吗？

随便问一下23行Granted是什么意思 ？

rakesun

这句话

Granted, LACE w:st="on">SwitzerlandLACE> 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.

说明该题选E.

而C中Swiss workers living in urban areas were more likely to be employed in industry than were American workers living in urban areas.这两个比较原文中没有提到。

Granted我觉得可以翻成:应该承认....

柿子头

你摘抄的那句话只说瑞士29%，没说美国多少呀。

能不能麻烦老大把这句话翻译一下：Switzerland and the United States diverged in the degree to

(25)      which the expansion of industry coin-

cided with the degree of urbanization:

rakesun

我引用的那句话已经暗示美国比瑞士多了。

你看句子意思,前面说，在工业扩展(大概意思)和城市化的一致程度上，美国和瑞士有区别;然后说,瑞士只有29%怎样怎样。.这就说明美国的数字肯定比瑞士高.注意那个only.

nerakuhs

以下是引用rakesun在2005-8-1 12:13:00的发言：

我引用的那句话已经暗示美国比瑞士多了。

你看句子意思,前面说，在工业扩展(大概意思)和城市化的一致程度上，美国和瑞士有区别;然后说,瑞士只有29%怎样怎样。.这就说明美国的数字肯定比瑞士高.注意那个only.

恩，是，我也是看了第二扁才看出来，真狡猾。

VivienZheng

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.

这句话的意思是瑞典和美国在工业化和城市化的程度上都不同。后面说瑞典只有29%的人口住在城市里，暗示美国人口住在城市里的要比这个多。coincide with相当于and，我一开始也是没看懂这句话所以才选错了。