45. The author’s claim that, since the mid-1970’s, a new strategy has emerged in the unionization of public-sector clerical workers (line 23 ) would be strengthened if the author
(A) described more fully the attitudes of clerical workers toward labor unions
(B) compared the organizing strategies employed by private-sector unions with those of public-sector unions
(C) explained why politicians and administrators sometimes oppose unionization of clerical workers
(D) indicated that the number of unionized public-sector clerical workers was increasing even before the mid-1970’s(E)
(E) showed that the factors that favored unionization drives among these workers prior to 1975 have decreased in importance
OG给的解释如下:但是我还是不明白为什么选E选项,我错选了 A,咳,有人能帮忙解释一下吗?文章我似乎应该是看懂了,就是这个题目转不过弯,求助高人指点,万分感谢!
E is the best answer.
The question asks what would strengthen the author’s claim that a new strategy for unionization
has emerged since the mid-1970’s. Lines 30-31 cite the appearance of the new strategy. The
paragraphs that follow describe the changed circumstances that provided a context for such new
strategies. Lines 70-76 explain precisely how these changed circumstances created a reason for
new unionizing strategies. The author’s claim would be strengthened if it could be shown not only
that there are such new circumstances, but that the old circumstances discussed in the first
paragraph have become less important, further necessitating the adoption of a new strategy in
place of an old strategy suitable to those older circumstances.