求助GWD-4-5

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Many scholars have theorized that economic development, particularly industrialization and urbanization, contributes to the growth of participatory 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 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 suffrage, instituted nationally in the United States in 1920, not instituted nationally in Switzerland until the 1970’s?Industrialization was well advanced in both countries by 1920ver 33 percent 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 which the expansion of industry coincided with the degree of urbanization: only 29 percent of the Swiss population lived in cities of 10,000 or more inhabitants by 1920.However, urbanization 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 such as Cambodia and Ghana had voting rights for women long before Switzerland did.It is true that Switzerland’s urbanized cantons (political subdivisions) generally enacted women’s suffrage legislation earlier than did rural cantons.However, these cantons often shared other characteristics—similar linguistic backgrounds and strong leftist parties—that may help to explain this phenomenon

Q5: GWD-4-5

The passage states which of the following about Switzerland
’s urbanized cantons?
A.These cantons shared characteristics other than urbanization that may have contributed to their implementation of women’s suffrage.

B.These cantons tended to be more politically divided than were rural cantons.

C.These cantons shared with certain rural cantons characteristics such as similar linguistic backgrounds and strong leftist parties.

D.The populations of these cantons shared similar views because urbanization furthered the diffusion of ideas among them.

E.These cantons were comparable to the most highly urbanized states in the United States
in their stance toward the implementation of women’s suffrage.

答案是A，我开始选了C，请问大家，A为什么是对的，C错在哪里啊？

wangsiwei

我的理解是，these cantons often shared other characteristics that may help to explain this phenomenon 说明现象不是因为这些cantons是城里人的缘故，而是因为别的原因。these cantons 我理解是指城里人，不包括俺们乡下人。
GMAT有个特喜欢的东西，如果选项跟原文一模一样，就要当心了，通常就不是答案。要是把原文改了改，换了个说法，通常就是答案。
自己总结滴，不保证100％应用哈。

candy湘

up！

other than 的意思不是“除了……”么？我理解的原文的意思是cantons 有urbanization的特点啊，只是不能完全解释women`s suffrage

求指点~~~

Zacks

挖一个！
A貌似是从原文直接搬过来的，但A对文章的改写是不是把意思改变了？
我的理解：文章意思“原因除了有urbanization，还有similar linguistic backgrounds 和 strong leftist parties"即urbanization包括在内；A选项意思“原因没有urbanization,只有其他的similar linguistic backgrounds 和 strong leftist parties”即urbanization排除在外。因A改变原文意思，故A错。
这样的理解对么？还是说其实是GWD答案错了就应该选A...


坑爹。。自己做GWD时对错答案了。。就是选A。。我连楼主的话都没看全就回复了