GRE 机经阅读101 疑惑 47

sunshinehanUID: 3762313

Passage 47（短文章／研究方法对比／历史／易）

From the 1880s to the 1930s, the textile industry in Japan employed over half of all workers, most of them in the three major branches of silk reeling, cotton spinning, and weaving. Because the branches were highly diverse—in scale, skill requirements, and technology—historians traditionally have analyzed them separately. However, the workforces of all three were drawn primarily from the same population: young, mostly rural women aged 10 to 25. Noting this commonality, Hunter argues that a consideration of the three branches of production together is long overdue: examining elements common to the different branches of textile production may, she asserts, permit the identification of gender-based factors that may have influenced the operation of the Japanese female labor market as a whole.

Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.
2. It can be inferred that Hunter regards which of the following to be a shortcoming of historians’ traditional analyses discussed in the passage?
A. their failure to examine factors common to the three different branches of Japanese textile production
B. their separation of the Japanese textile industry into three major branches based on differences in scale, skill requirements, and technology
C. their failure to acknowledge the contribution made by rural women to the different branches of the textile industry

解析答案是A，不选B是因为B是分开研究的原因，但不是 Hunter 的反驳点
但我觉得B也可以，historian 分开研究的原因，也是导致historian不能 examing common，如果没有这个分开研究的前提，historian 也不会分开研究了，而Hunter 正是提出 common 研究，所以对 Hunter取非 应该选上 B

Harriet.OUID: 3638403

题目说了 three major branches of silk reeling, cotton spinning, and weaving，所以我觉得three major branches应该是按照不同职能去分的，作者是说因为不同的分支里面in scale, skill requirements, and technology不同，所以应该按照分支来分析

sunshinehanUID: 3762313

Harriet.O 发表于 2017-4-19 21:43
题目说了 three major branches of silk reeling, cotton spinning, and weaving，所以我觉得three major b ...

我觉得是 H 赞成 examine factors common，而之前的historian 是 separately 研究的; 与separation into three major branches scale, skill requirements, and technology 分类方法无关，所以排除B

BraveNingUID: 3780134

啊，我看到的答案选AB:dizzy:

myimeeUID: 3699916

based on ....，感觉是题目硬加的分类标准。

nbshanshanUID: 3322812

我也觉得作者是同意分开研究的，只是在分开研究的同时没有研究这几个之间的不同才是造成failure的原因。
因为分开研究不一定就一定会忽视共同点嘛，非因果所以不能选B

努力努力再努力冲冲冲123UID: 3992669

Because the branches were highly diverse—in scale, skill requirements, and technology—
historians traditionally have analyzed them separately
弱弱的回答。。。
我觉得是这里说了：Because the branches were highly diverse， 所以实际上historians这样 划分标准也是没有错误的，并不是一个缺陷，缺陷是因为这些historians 没有看到共同点