prep-essay1-Q3:看了prep阅读笔记还是不懂~

elvisc

Essay #1.  019   

During the nineteenth century, occupationalinformation about women that was provided by the United States census--apopulation count conducted each decade--became more detailed and precise in response to social changes.  Through 1840, simple enumerationby household mirrored a home-based agricultural economy and hierarchical socialorder:  the head of the household(presumed male or absent) was specified by name, whereas other householdmembers were only indicated by the total number of persons counted in variouscategories, including occupational categories. Like farms, most enterprises were family-run, so that the censusmeasured economic activity as an attribute of the entire household, rather thanof individuals.

The 1850 census, partly responding to antislaveryand women's rights movements, initiated thecollection of specific information about each individual in ahousehold.  Not until 1870 wasoccupational information analyzed by gender:  the census superintendent（负责人）reported 1.8 million women employed outside the home in "gainful andreputable occupations." In addition, he arbitrarily attributed to eachfamily one woman "keeping house." Overlapbetween the two groups was not calculated until 1890, when the rapid entry of women intothe paid labor force and social issues arising from industrialization werecausing women's advocates and women statisticians to press formore thorough and accurate accounting of women's occupations and wages.

Question #3.  019-04    (21339-!-item-!-188;#058&000019-04)

The passage suggests which of the following about the"women's advocates and women statisticians" mentioned in thehighlighted text?

(A) They wanted to call attentionto the lack of pay for women who worked in the home.

(B) They believed that previous censusinformation was inadequate and did not reflect certain economic changes in theUnited States.

(C)They had begun to press for changes in census-taking methods as part of theirparticipation in the antislavery（notmentioned）movement.

(D) They thought that census statisticsabout women would be more accurate if more women were employed as censusofficials.

(E) They had conducted independentstudies that disputed the official statistics provided by previous UnitedStates censuses.

我选择的C。知道C的不对了，可还是看不出来定位处与选项B的联系。求热心人解答~~~

SMARTCATHYT

你看我这样说你能不能接受，题目问的是，下面选项哪个是文中暗示的“"women's advocates and women statisticians”的信息。 回到定位句，说的是，有个overlap以前没被计算，直到女性接受工资的啊什么的“ rapid entry ”以后，这件事情才引起了“women's advocates and women statisticians”做什么事情（要求更精确的计算）。也就是说，为什么“women's advocates and women statisticians”要要求更精确的计算呢？原因是可以推断说是以前的有些没有被计算，而现在因为现实的因素必须加上，所以以前的计算方法或者计算模式什么的不好用了，不够了，也不能反映现在的美国当前的经济了。