36套exercise27长阅读第三题

izayakUID: 3285759

第二段中：

Indeed, the war effort against Britain tended to suppress class conflicts. Where it did not, the disputing rebels of one or another class usually became Loyalists. Loyalism thus operated as a safety valve to remove socioeconomic discontent that existed among the rebels.

上述中的where it did not怎么理解？直接影响下面这道题：

3. According to the passage, Loyalism during the American Revolutionary War served the function of
(A) eliminating the disputes that existed among those colonists who supported the rebel cause
(B) drawing upper, as opposed to lower, socioeconomic classes away from the rebel cause
(C) tolerating the kinds of socioeconomic discontent that were not allowed to exist on the rebel side
(D) channeling conflict that existed within a socioeconomic class into the war effort against the rebel cause
(E) absorbing members of socioeconomic groups on the rebel side who felt themselves in contention with members of other socioeconomic groups

daidi1990UID: 2893615

我刚刚做到这个题！！我选的是A。。

看了解析后，我的理解是这样，你参考看看。反英战争的行动倾向于抑制阶级冲突。但是在没有受抑制的地方（也就是阶级冲突比较明显的地儿），一个或另一个阶级里面与他人有冲突的rebels就成了loyalists.Loyalism因为会吸收rebel里面爱闹事儿不满的rebels，所以也起到了让rebels这个群体比较稳定的作用，所以是safety vavle.

所以最后答案就是E。你看看，不准确的地方我们再交流。

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daidi1990 发表于 2013-11-19 21:02
我刚刚做到这个题！！我选的是A。。

看了解析后，我的理解是这样，你参考看看。反英战争的行动倾向于抑制 ...

我也选的是A 因为我当时把where it did not理解错了，我理解成了“但是没有吸收...”（还想为什么呢，不是吸收了么= =） 再看发现where it did not应该是指“没有镇压成功的，有的把rebel吸收进去了”~（中文描述略有不当，不过意思明白就好~）