GWD 21-Q7 to Q9：

Seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke stated that as much as 99 percent of the value of any useful product can be attributed to “the effects of labor.”  For Locke’s intellectual heirs it was only a short step to the “labor theory of value,” whose formulators held that 100 percent of the value of any product is generated by labor (the human work needed to produce goods) and that therefore the employer who appropriates any part of the product’s value as profit is practicing theft。

Although human effort is required to produce goods for the consumer market, effort is also invested in making capital goods (tools, machines, etc.), which are used to facilitate the production of consumer goods.  In modern economies about one-third of the total output of consumer goods is attributable to the use of capital goods.  Approximately two-thirds of the income derived from this total output is paid out to workers as wages and salaries, the remaining third serving as compensation to the owners of the capital goods.  Moreover, part of this remaining third is received by workers who are shareholders, pension beneficiaries, and the like. The labor theory of value systematically disregards the productive contribution of capital goods—a failing for which Locke must bear part of the blame.

Q8:

The author of the passage is primarily concerned with

A.    criticizing Locke’s economic theories

B.    discounting the contribution of labor in a modern economy

C.    questioning the validity of the labor theory of value

D.    arguing for a more equitable distribution of business profits

E.     contending that employers are overcompensated for capital goods

正解是C，其实我也选对了

但是这边我觉得答案A和答案B态度都和C一样是Negative的

谢谢

以前遗留下来的问题，希望哪位帮忙解答一下，A为什么不能选？我觉得A的范围比C更宽泛，作为主旨题的

选项很不错啊

作为主旨题，只能选C

A。你没发现 Locke’s economic theories，不是文章真正的FOCUS吗？只是为了引出“labor theory of value,”的；然后第二段才说有一部的价值是来自于资金的。

B。的态度是NEGTIVE，但是你是在做主旨题，而非细节题，我们说用态度一致性是用来排除选项的。最最重要的还是选项的比较。            discounting the contribution of labor 你自己想想吧

C。质疑了“labor theory of value,”有效性，兼顾了两段的意思，隐含的说了第二段的功能，虽然没有提资金。