求助：GWD-28-Q25-Q27 公共政策和劳动力市场对妇女产假的影响

fighterlion

这一篇也就是CD24中的19套25-26，其中25题的答案选C, 怎么看也看不明白，请高手指点。在此先谢过了。

Many politicians, business leaders, and scholars discount the role of public policy and emphasize the role of the labor market when explaining employers' maternity-leave policies, arguing that prior to the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993, employers were already providing maternity leave in response to the increase in the number of women workers.  Employers did create maternity-leave programs in the 1970's and 1980's, but not as a purely voluntary response in the absence of any government mandate. In 1972, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled that employers who allowed leaves for disabling medical conditions must also allow them for maternity and that failure to do so would constitute sex discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  As early as 1973, a survey found that 58 percent of large employers had responded with new maternity-leave policies. Because the 1972 EEOC ruling was contested in court, the ruling won press attention that popularized maternity-leave policies. Yet perhaps because the Supreme Court later struck down the ruling, politicians and scholars have failed to recognize its effects, assuming that employers adopted maternity-leave policies in response to the growing feminization of the workforce.

 
•Q25 •The passage is primarily concerned with •
A.reporting an author’s view of a phenomenon 
B.disputing the reasons usually given for an unexpected change 
C.evaluating the conclusions reached by an author 
D.assessing the impact of certain legal decisions. 
E.defending a controversial point of view 

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-7-8 21:08:52编辑过]

alibaba_2009

DING

hughlv

真的是C吗？我觉得E不错的啊。第一句是引出一个很多politician的观点：discount A并emphasize B。之后整篇都是在fight with 这个观点。没觉得实在evaluate也没觉的哪里描述了conclusions by an author，而且这author是谁？当然不是这篇文章的作者因为他是在evaluate。

nn帮忙～～

98FXR100

Mark一下！