[求助]请教大牛——OG11 93题，关于儿童定价的问题/我觉得答案D比标准答案B好

starist

如题：

文章为儿童定价的问题，在OG11 378页上。

我觉得如果讲“经济”原因，D中提到儿童供给减少，成本上升，完全符合经济原理和文中"sociological economists "的调调，且没有新信息。

而标准答案B关于"earnings over the couse of a lifetime"是新信息，而"increased greatly"更是新的不能再新的额外信息。(参见下面)

基于这两个原因，我认为D好，请大牛解惑？？

93. Which of the following alternative explanations of the

change in the cash value of children would be most

likely to be put forward by sociological economists as

they are described in the passage?

(A)            

The cash value of children rose during the

nineteenth century because parents began

to increase their emotional investment in

the upbringing of their children.

(B)             The cash value of children rose during the nineteenth century because their expected earnings over the course of a lifetime increased greatly.   - -

(C)            

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The cash value of children rose during the nineteenth century because the spread of humanitarian ideals resulted in a wholesale reappraisal of the worth of an individual.

(D)             The cash value of children rose during the nineteenth century because compulsory education laws reduced the supply, and thus raised the costs, of available child labor.

(E)             The cash value of children rose during the nineteenth century because of changes in the way negligence law assessed damages in accidental-death cases.

Application

To see how sociological economists would explain changing views of a child^'s worth, examine what the passage says about their perspectives. In the final paragraph, the author contrasts Zelizer^'s culturally based conclusions about a child^'s worth with the thinking of the sociological economists, who analyze topics solely in terms of their economic determinants and who tend to view all human behavior as directed primarily by the principle of maximizing economic gain. Therefore, sociological economists would explain the rise in the cash value of children exclusively on the basis of the rise of their economic value.

A         

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Sociological economists would not support a reason based on emotion, only on economics.

B          Correct. From the perspective of sociological economists, the cash value of children increases as the amount they can be expected to earn over a lifetime increases, a purely economic rationale.

C          Sociological economists would not support a reason based on humanitarian ideals rather than economics.

D Since this economic argument is based on the underlying social values about children^'s education, not simply on economics, sociological economists would not support it.

E         Sociological economists would not support a reason based on law rather than economics.

The correct answer is B.

meggie_xm

这道题偶作对了，但是不知道想法对不对，你说的选项是reformers提出的，不是sociological economists提出的，我觉得这里面有你想当然的想法，文中只说sociological economists tend to view all human behavior as directed primarily by the principle of maximizing economic gain.earnings不是新名词，是gain的转义。另外我觉得这个答案肯定不是在第二段，应该在最后一段找，所以选的第二个。

不知道对不对，lz做参考。

starist

reformers说服我了，非常感谢。

springsound

提上来再讨论：还是Ｄ项为什么错，没有想通。

1. compulsory education laws 这个概念的确是在第二段中由reformers introduced。引入义务教育法的人是出于social values的考虑，但Ｄ项只是基于义务教育法的存在这一事实，推理出其导致儿童供给减少，成本上升。所以ＯＧ的解释"...is based on the underlying social values about children's education"很牵强啊，我觉得Ｄ项 is on the fact that there are compulsory education laws.

2. B项中的earnings不是新信息，但earnings over the course of a litime increased greatly这整句话是新信息。原文中并没有说１９世纪人们一生的收入有显著增加。

springsound

再顶一下, 请好心人讨论讨论.