求助~~小安NO.38 某人著作篇

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Passage 38 (38/63)
In Forces of Production, David Noble examines the transformation of the machine-tool industry as the industry moved from reliance on skilled artisans to automation. Noble writes from a Marxist perspective, and his central argument is that management, in its decisions to automate, conspired against labor: the power that the skilled machinists wielded in the industry was intolerable to management. Noble fails to substantiate this claim, although his argument is impressive when he applies the Marxist concept of “de-skilling”—the use of technology to replace skilled labor—to the automation of the machine-tool industry. In automating, the industry moved to computer-based, digitized “numerical-control” (N/C) technology, rather than to artisan-generated “record-playback” (R/P) technology.
Although both systems reduced reliance on skilled labor, Noble clearly prefers R/P, with its inherent acknowledgment of workers’ skills: unlike N/C, its programs were produced not by engineers at their computers, but by skilled machinists, who recorded their own movements to “teach” machines to duplicate those movements. However, Noble’s only evidence of conspiracy is that, although the two approaches were roughly equal in technical merit, management chose N/C. From this he concludes that automation is undertaken not because efficiency demands it or scientific advances allow it, but because it is a tool in the ceaseless war of capitalists against labor.
5.    Which of the following phrases most clearly reveals the attitude of the author of the passage toward Noble’s central argument?
(A) “conspired against” (line 6)
(B) “intolerable to management” (line 7)
(C) “impressive when he applies the Marxist concept” (line 9)
(D) “clearly prefers” (line 16)
(E) “only evidence of conspiracy” (line 21)
7.    Which of the following best characterizes Forces of Production as it is described in the passage?
(A) A comparison of two interpretations of how a particular industry evolved
(B) An examination of the origin of a particular concept in industrial economics
(C) A study that points out the weakness of a particular interpretation of an industrial phenomenon
(D) A history of a particular industry from an ideological point of view
(E) An attempt to relate an industrial phenomenon in one industry to a similar phenomenon in another industry

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第五题正选是E偶选的是C，定位在and his central argument is that management, in its decisions to automate, conspired against labor: the power that the skilled machinists wielded in the industry was intolerable to management. Noble fails to substantiate this claim, although his argument is impressive when he applies the Marxist concept of “de-skilling。。翻过以前的帖子，作者的态度是大正小负的，可是我觉得“only evidence of conspiracy“跟central argument没有什么关系。。求各位慷慨解答~~
第七题正选D，我选的A，觉得文章写的就是RP,NC的比较。。不知道A为什么不对。。

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dddd~~

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呼叫版主~~

笨笨星辰

第五题作者的态度是反对Noble的观点的，认为他理由不充分，所以选E。而C说的是Noble的观点~
对于第七题，定位在文章的第一句话，下文又说他的证据不充足，所以仅仅是作者意识上的观点。A选项，那个观点并没有这两种解释的对比
我也在做小安阅读，这篇是昨晚才做的，也错了不少。。。。
以上的意见楼主全当参考吧~~~
另外，楼主若有时间，可否讲解一下Passenge30的6，8两题？3Q~~~~~~~~~

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第六题定位：最后一段He finds that rates of joblessness differed primarily according to class
和Keyssar uses these differential rates to help explain a phenomenon that has puzzled historians—the startlingly high rate of geographical mobility in the nineteenth-century United States
至于age,是有调查过但是并不是重要的因素
第八题也定位the startlingly high rate of geographical mobility in the nineteenth-century United States
正好符合D，说women因为industry倒闭而到另一个地方谋生