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schen079

I am sorry, I can not understand the question.

The author of the passage implies that the shift away from the views of Westinghouse's contemporaties should be regarded as surprising (I agree with "surpring"), given the stature that Whestinghouse once had. (which is the subject of given, the views of Westinghouse's contempoaties or shift away from the views of Westinghouse's contmeporaties, that is the point to the answer).

ddmm2002

我想大家是否把问题复杂化了。应该是很简单的同意变换：14行的intriguing对应surprising,15行的departure对应shift away from.

Novena

大家体会一下这道题的问法：The author of the passage implies that “the shift away from the views of Westinghouse’s contemporaries ”should be regarded as

作者倾向于对W的正评价，并在第2段开始寻证自己的观点，所以在此题中，他认为“当代评论者忽视W的成就”这件事 应该是 surprising的

leisure1221

以下是引用ddmm2002在2005-3-1 12:33:00的发言：
我想大家是否把问题复杂化了。应该是很简单的同意变换：14行的intriguing对应surprising,15行的departure对应shift away from.

departure 对应shift away from 没错，但intriguing 和surprising 怎么能够对应的上呢？e中的given the stature that westinghouse once had 又跟谁去对应呢？所以我觉得c才是答案，   C. reflective of modern neglect of the views of previous generations        恰好对应原文中的L11－L13This comparative
neglect of Westinghouse is
consistent with other recent historians’
works, 正是当代人的观点与prevailing view during the inventors lifetime的背离.

因此c最符合题意

yazi123

这题我也选C，

文中第9 行用了“Notorious"一词形容爱迪生的对手W，所以谈不上对W的正评价，因此就谈不上惊讶了

徵徵

我也选的C，前面是提到notorious  adversary，作者态度就已经表明了， 后面虽然提到 "Pioneer  Innovators",但是为什么打引号呢？ 作者真的认为W是pioneer innovator？

juningw

我也选C。道理等到我考试完再写。

仔细读题之后，感觉通了。

IDAISY

vote for E

initially i chose c, actually when i first did this test, i was struggling with this question, because i cannot find a right answer, i rule out E at first sight because my feeling at the moment told me that the article never mentions W's stature, ...

but when i review this question for the second time, i find a serious problem with C, because C refers to 'neglect of the previous views. this is not correct. actually the article reads 'neglect of Westinghouse' bla bla...in tianshan 9, i fell into ets' traps several times.

tomorrow is my test date, have to remind myself it is never enough to be careful....

xinfaxian

这道题也够损的，不想仔细很容易上ets的当啊！

happyfish0517

以下是引用smartdummy在2005-1-15 19:04:00的发言：

I support E.

Edison and Westinghouse were viewed as "pioneer innovators" in their lifetimes. However, Westinghouse was neglected by Thomas Hughes and other historians. Therefore, the shift away from the views of Westinghouse's contemporaries (departure from the prevailing view during the inventors' lifetimes) is surprising, since Westinghouse was a pioneer in his times (given the stature that Westinghouse once had) but neglected now. Something intriguing is likely to be something surprising.

This also complies with the authors positive attitude about Westinghouse.

上面解释的很清楚很清楚啦...intriguing就很呢个说明问题了，当然选e...

C. reflective of modern neglect of the views of previous generations文章并没有说对W的忽视是因为对前人观点的忽视而造成的（I.E.说不定是因为后人不同意前人观点啊，并非忽视他们的观点）