GWD28-Q25 to Q26 拜托帮我看一下！快考了！

zliycwn1

虽然阅读版人少，不过真的没人可以讨论了

GWD28-Q25 to Q26:

      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
        

我排除了ABC 答案在DE间徘徊的 选了D

但答案是C

非常不理解 全文如果有author，只有写文章即作者本人的观点了

其一，一个人怎么evaluate自己的观点？

其二，我觉得通篇是在讲作者如何表述自己的观点，并没有出现evaluate（分好坏）啊

salad1989

GWD28-Q25 to Q26:

      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.

Q26:

The passage suggests that the relationship between the view of the author with respect to maternity leave policy prior to passage of the FMLA and the view of the politicians, business leaders, and scholars mentioned in lines 1-2 can best be characterized by which of the following statements?

A.      They agree that both the 1972 EEOC ruling on maternity-leave policy and the increasing feminization of the workplace had an impact on employers’ creation of maternity-leave programs but disagree about the relative importance of each factor.

B.       They agree that the EEOC ruling on maternity-leave policy had an initial impact on employers’ creation of maternity-leave programs but disagree over whether the Supreme Court’s striking down of the EEOC ruling weakened that impact.

C.      They agree that creating maternity-leave programs was a necessary response to the needs of the increasing number of women workers but disagree about whether maternity should be classified as a disabling medical condition.

D.      They agree that employers created maternity-leave programs prior to passage of the FMLA but disagree about employers’ motivations for doing so.

E.       They agree that employers created maternity-leave programs prior to passage of the FMLA but disagree about how widespread those programs were.

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我觉得lz的字体有些小。。嘿嘿

这篇阅读很奇怪，读懂了，却做不对题。。而且都不明白。sigh

26题我选了A，但答案却是D

希望有nn可以指教一下！

 

zliycwn1

 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

这句是关键，这句以后文章都在说employers是怎么被动地承认接受的，虽然他们arguing prior to the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993, employers were already providing maternity leave

increasing feminization of the workplace 作者是没有给出相关的态度的 因此不对

DarkRusher

25题中说的是an author而不是the author，也就是说那是一个不知名人士的观点而不是作者本人的……
作者开头说了三类人的共同观点，第二句来了个but开始唱反调，所以是evaluate这个观点到底对不对……
文章评价的是观点，而不是法律条文的影响。法律条文只是观点中的一个细节，所以D选项是不合适的……
至于E选项，个人认为作者不是在捍卫观点而是在反驳……

zliycwn1

Many politicians, business leaders, and scholars discount the role of public policy ...

可这些都不是author啊，一般是这样的选项必然有前面一个谁的一本书或者一个学者怎样，我不选C就是因为politicians, leaders, scholars作者这样general的举例意在说明这些都是普遍的观点

当然D我也不觉得特别好...

kevinli120

Q25  C

It can be inferred that the author of the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about government policy?

A.    Government policy is generally unaffected by pressures in the labor market.

B.    The impact of a given government policy is generally weakened by sustained press attention.

C.    It is possible for a particular government policy to continue to have an impact after that policy has been eliminated.

D.    A given government policy can be counterproductive when that policy has already unofficially been implemented.

E.     ！The impact of a given government policy is generally weakened when the ruling is contested in court.

 答案选C，我选E，不明白啊，求助

xinling917

文章读明白了就是做不对题！！NN们能否帮解决一下这个问题！是文章读的不够细，还是没理解清逻辑关系？？？？？郁闷！

amumu

逻辑：

P，BL，S认为：女工人数量增长
                    -> ML政策实施

    Author认为：EEOC被否决，但是影响大 -> ML政策实施

Q25：我认为选A。

因为看遍BCDE都是说government policy实施以后的事情，而原文中根本都没有讨论过government policy实施以后（即1993年以后）的事情。

倒是从最高法院否决EEOC的请求看出，即使EEOC造成了很大的影响，但是government和民间诉求不相关。

P.S：另外，也可以看看大家如何理解government policy？EEOC的那个算吗？如果算的话，那确实被否决之后还有影响，就选C了。

Q26：

关键原文：

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.

表明作者和那帮人都认同实际ML政策在93年之前就实施了，但是一个认为是EEOC的影响，另一帮人认为是女工增加导致的。

amumu

刚刚又仔细想了一下，EEOC的政策就是government policy，见原文：

 As early as 1973, a survey found that 58
percent of large employers had responded with new maternity-leave policies.

另外，EEOC是美国联邦政府的一个机构，当然它的主张可以成为government policy。见Wiki：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Employment_Opportunity_Commission

sunny0625

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.

回答kevinli120

struck down the ruling 对应policy has been eliminated.   就是说虽然法律被eliminate 了但由于媒体的关注employer采取了materity-leave policies

所以选C