求教一篇GWD阅读题目。。谢谢各位大神

kimfeng

For many years, historians thought that the development of capitalism had not faced serious challenges in the United States. Writing in the early twentieth century, Progressive historians sympathized with the battles waged by farmers and small producers against large capitalists in the late nineteenth century, but they did not question the widespread acceptance of laissez-faire (unregulated) capitalism throughout American history. Similarly, Louis Hartz, who sometimes disagreed with the Progressives, argued that Americans accepted laissez-faire capitalism without challenge because they lacked a feudal, precaptialist past. Recently, however, some scholars have argued that even though laissez-faire became the prevailing ethos in nineteen-century America, it was not accepted without struggle. Laissez-faire capitalism, they suggest, clashed with existing religious and communitarian norms that imposed moral constraints on acquisitiveness to protect the weak from the predatory, the strong from corruption, and the entire culture from materialist excess. Buttressed by mercantilist notions that government should be both regulator and promoter of economic activity, these norms persisted long after the American Revolution helped unleash the economic forces that produced capitalism. These scholars argue that even in the late nineteenth century, with the government’s role in the economy considerably diminished, laissez-faire had not triumphed completely. Hard times continued to revive popular demands for regulating business and softening the harsh edges of laissez-faire capitalism.


T-9-Q37
The passage suggests that the scholars mentioned in line 17 would agree with which of the following statements regarding the “norms” mentioned in line 23?
A.        They provided a primary source of opposition to the development of laissez-faire capitalism in the United States in the nineteenth century.
B.        Their appeal was undermined by difficult economic times in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century.
C.        They disappeared in the United States in the late nineteenth century because of the triumph of laissez-faire capitalism.
D.        They facilitated the successful implementation of mercantilist notions of government in the United States in the nineteenth-century
E.        They are now recognized by historians as having been an important part of the ideology of the American Revolution.

答案是A请问B选项哪里有问题呢？谢谢。。。

kimfeng

自己顶一下。。。谢谢各位啊

kimfeng

谁来解答啊。。。谢谢。。。

提拉拉拉

老观点：资本主义受到挑战，两个观点支持P和LO
然而最近有新观点：说明受到了挑战，资本主义还是受到了挑战。
就算在19世纪末，放任自由主义也未完全胜利。