In American Genesis, which covers the century of technological innovation in the United States beginning in 1876, Thomas Hughes assigns special prominence to Thomas Edison as archetype of the independent nineteenth-century inventor. However, Hughes virtually ignores Edison’s famous contemporary and notorious adversary in the field of electric light and power, George Westinghouse. This comparative neglect of Westinghouse is consistent with other recent historians’ works, although it marks an intriguing departure from the prevailing view during the inventors’ lifetimes (and for decades afterward) of Edison and Westinghouse as the two “pioneer innovators ” of the electrical industry.
My recent reevaluation of Westin-house, facilitated by materials found in railroad archives, suggests that while Westinghouse and Edison shared important traits as inventors, they differed markedly in their approach to the business aspects of innovation. For Edison as an inventor, novelty was always paramount: the overriding goal of the business of innovation was simply to generate funding for new inventions. Edison therefore undertook just enough sales, product development, and manufacturing to accomplish this. Westinghouse, however, shared the attitudes of the railroads and other industries for whom he developed innovations: product development standardization, system and order were top priorities. Westinghouse thus better exemplifies the systematic approach to technological development that would become a hallmark of modern corporate research and development.
题目如下：
T-9-Q7
The author of the passage implies that the shift away from the views of Westinghouse’s contemporaries should be regarded as
A. a natural outgrowth of the recent revival of interest in Edison
B. a result of scholarship based on previously unknown documents
C. reflective of modern neglect of the views of previous generations
D. inevitable, given the changing trends in historical interpretations
E. surprising, given the stature that Westinghouse once had
请问C选项错在哪里？GWD提供的答案是E，可以接受。不能理解C错在哪里，因为原文中有如下句子：This comparative neglect of Westinghouse is consistent with other recent historians’ works, although it marks an intriguing departure from the prevailing view during the inventors’ lifetimes (and for decades afterward) of Edison and Westinghouse as the two “pioneer innovators ” of the electrical industry.
C应该是“the views of Westinghouse’s contemporaries ”吧？
问题问的是“shift away from the views of Westinghouse’s contemporaries "作者: dgd1052 时间: 2010-7-16 23:42
implies意味着 什么
作者: laihuiyuan 时间: 2010-7-17 07:19
我认为C更好。
提问：shift away from the views of W's contemporaries is regarded as what? (与W时期的人们的观点不同这个现象被看作为。。。？）
C：反映了以前人们的观点被现在的人们忽视了
原文：This comparative neglect of Westinghouse is consistent with other recent historians’ works, although it marks an intriguing departure from the prevailing view during the inventors’ lifetimes
至于D选项，实在找不到原文中哪个词暗示了surprising的含义。有选D的童鞋来解释一下么？作者: yaozixi 时间: 2010-7-17 22:39
This comparative neglect of Westinghouse is consistent with other recent historians’ works, although it marks an intriguing departure from the prevailing view during the inventors’ lifetimes
这句只是在说现在w地位被忽视（neglect of Westinghouse），是针对这个人的。原选项却是说neglect of the views of previous generations，是对过去的人的观点的藐视。
