GWD17-Q24 to Q27 怎么想，都不明白

allen0018

    

GWD17-Q24 to Q27:

    

      In 1938, at the government-convened

    

       National
Health Conference, organized labor

    

       emerged
as a major proponent of legislation

    

Line       to guarantee universal health care in the

    

  (5)      United States.  The American Medical

    

Association,
representing physicians’

    

interests,
argued for preserving physicians’

    

free-market prerogatives. 
Labor activists

    

countered these
arguments by insisting that

    

 (10)      health care was a fundamental right that

    

should be
guaranteed by government

    

programs.

    

      The labor activists’ position represented

    

a departure from
the voluntarist view held

    

 (15)      until 1935 by leaders of the American

    

Federation of
labor (AFL), a leading affili-

    

ation of labor
unions; the voluntarist view

    

stressed workers’ right to freedom from

    

government
intrusions into their lives and 

    

 (20)      represented national health insurance as a

    

       threat
to workers’ privacy.  AFL president

    

       Samuel
Gompers, presuming to speak for

    

all workers, had
positioned the AFL as

    

a leading
opponent of the proposals for

    

 (25)      national health insurance that were advo-

    

cated beginning
in 1915 by the American

    

Association for
Labor Legislation (AALL),

    

an organization
dedicated to the study and

    

reform of labor
laws.  Gompers’ opposition

    

 (30)      to national health insurance was partly

    

principled,
arising from the premise that

    

governments
under capitalism invariably

    

       served
employers’, not workers’, interests.

    

Gompers feared
the probing of government

    

 (35)
               bureaucrats
into workers’ lives, as well as

    

the possibility that government-mandated

    

health insurance, financed in part by

    

employers, could
permit companies to

    

      require employee medical examinations

    

 (40)     that
might be used to discharge disabled

    

workers.

    

      Yet the AFL’s voluntarism had accom-

    

modated certain exceptions:  the AFL had

    

supported
government intervention on behalf

    

 (45)      of injured workers and child
laborers.  AFL

    

officials drew
the line at national health

    

insurance,
however, partly out of concern

    

for their own
power.  The fact that AFL

    

outsiders such
as the AALL had taken the

    

 (50)      most prominent advocacy roles antagonized

    

Gompers.  That this reform threatened union-

    

sponsored
benefit programs championed by

    

Gompers made
national health insurance

    

even more
objectionable.

    

 (55)           
Indeed, the AFL leadership did face

    

serious
organizational divisions.  Many

    

unionists,
recognizing that union-run health

    

programs covered
only a small fraction of

    

union members
and that unions represented

    

 (60)      only a fraction of the nation’s workforce,

    

worked to enact
compulsory health

    

insurance in
their state legislatures.  This

    

activism and the
views underlying it came to

    

prevail in the United States
labor movement

    

 (65)      and in 1935 the AFL unequivocally reversed

    

its position on
health legislation.

    

    

26. Q26:

    

Which of the following best describes the
function of the sentence in lines 42-45 (“Yet … child laborers”)?

    

             

    

1. It elaborates a point about why the AFL advocated a voluntarist
        approach to health insurance.
2. It identifies issues on which the AFL took a view opposed to
        that of the AALL.
3. It introduces evidence that appears to be inconsistent with the
        voluntarist view held by AFL leaders.
4. It suggests that a view described in the previous sentence is
        based on faulty evidence.
5. It indicates why a contradiction described in the previous
        paragraph has been overlooked by historians.

还是有点想不明白啊，大家再说说 

caterpillarcn

答案是C吧。
E是错啊，第二段没有讲到issurance for child laborers,只是在讲voluntarists对insurance的态度。第三段说到insurance for child laborers是一个exception which contradicts voluntarists' common view regarding the insurance.

allen0018

有点明白了，好像就是说AFL 这些人的理由冠冕堂皇下有自己的目的
把小孩甩给他人来保持自己

kathy8446

L45-48 AFL officials drew the line at national health insurance, however, partly out of concern for their own power. 

这句话应该怎么理解呢？对第三段的想表达的意思和在文章里的作用很费解。。。

MaccMichAA

allen大哥 还是你比较有人气 两个牛牛都来助阵

qianrene

以下是引用kathy8446在2006-9-8 12:22:00的发言：

L45-48 AFL officials drew the line at national health insurance, however, partly out of concern for their own power. 

这句话应该怎么理解呢？对第三段的想表达的意思和在文章里的作用很费解。。。

应该是保持界限不跨越：意思是反对全国范围内的健康保险，而支持union范围的的保险吧，但是这种反对是处于对自己的保护，怕雇主利用这个来解雇工人

而他们还是会支持受伤工人的全国健康保险

flyuo2006

同一篇

24. Q24:

The passage suggests which of the following about the voluntarist view held by leaders of the AFL regarding health care?  A

A.      It was opposed by the AALL.

B.       It was shared by most unionists until 1935.

C.      It antagonized the American Medical Association.

D.      It maintained that employer-sponsored health care was preferable to union-run health programs.

E.       It was based on the premise that the government should protect child laborers but not adult workers.

为什么选A呢?

 the voluntarist view stressed workers’ right to freedom from government intrusions into their lives and represented national health insurance as a threat to workers’ privacy. AFL president Samuel Gompers, presuming to speak for all workers, had positioned the AFL as a leading opponent of the proposals for national health insurance that were advocated beginning in 1915 by the American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL),

是从这段定位的吗?这里只说了AFL反对AALL的proposals,但是没说AALL反对AFL的观点啊,难道只要双方观点相悖,都可以称为反对对方?

可能AALL是同意AFL关于health care的观点,但是出于其它原因他们还是要提出proposals for national health insurance

A因为某某原因反对B,并不能说B就一定反对A啊

唉,到底要绕到那里去啊.......

[此贴子已经被作者于2009-4-3 11:00:37编辑过]

Eliott

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scarlett8327

以下是引用flyuo2006在2009-4-2 11:34:00的发言：

同一篇

24. Q24:

The passage suggests which of the following about the voluntarist view held by leaders of the AFL regarding health care?  A

A.      It was opposed by the AALL.

B.       It was shared by most unionists until 1935.

C.      It antagonized the American Medical Association.

D.      It maintained that employer-sponsored health care was preferable to union-run health programs.

E.       It was based on the premise that the government should protect child laborers but not adult workers.

为什么选A呢?

 the voluntarist view stressed workers’ right to freedom from government intrusions into their lives and represented national health insurance as a threat to workers’ privacy. AFL president Samuel Gompers, presuming to speak for all workers, had positioned the AFL as a leading opponent of the proposals for national health insurance that were advocated beginning in 1915 by the American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL),

是从这段定位的吗?这里只说了AFL反对AALL的proposals,但是没说AALL反对AFL的观点啊,难道只要双方观点相悖,都可以称为反对对方?

可能AALL是同意AFL关于health care的观点,但是出于其它原因他们还是要提出proposals for national health insurance

A因为某某原因反对B,并不能说B就一定反对A啊

唉,到底要绕到那里去啊.......

我也想知道,有没有哪位NN指点下???

nickdon

以下是引用scarlett8327在2009-7-15 20:30:00的发言：

我也想知道,有没有哪位NN指点下???

我也不懂诶。为什么Ａ反对Ｂ，却要说Ａ被Ｂ反对呢？