Passage 4 (Q35-Q37)

This passage was adapted from an article written in 1990.

Research data indicate that

there is a great deal of poverty in

the United States among single-

Line parent families headed by women.

(5) This problem could result from

the fact that women’s wages are

only 60 percent of men’s. Some

economists believe that rigorous

enforcement of existing equal pay

(10) laws would substantially decrease

this wage inequity. But equal pay

laws are ineffectual when women

and men are concentrated in different

occupations because such laws

(15) require only that women and men

doing the same jobs be paid the

same. Since gender concentration

exists (for example, 80 percent of

clerical workers are women), other

(20) economists argue that a comparable

worth standard, which would

mandate that women and men in

any jobs that require comparable

training and responsibility be paid

(25) the same, should be applied

instead. But some policy analysts

assert that, although comparable

worth would virtually equalize male

and female wages, many single-

(30) parent families headed by women

would remain in poverty because

many men earn wages that are

below the poverty line. （很多男人本身赚的就少，把女人的工资与他们等同后还是少呀）These

policy analysts believe that the

(35) problem is not caused primarily by

wage inequity but rather by low

wages coupled with single parent

hood, regardless of sex. As a

solution, they challenge the govern-

(40) ment’s assumption that a family’s

income should depend primarily on

wages and urge the government to

provide generous wage supplements

(child and housing allow-

(45) ances) to single parents whose

wages are low.

GWD 21-35

The passage suggests that the LACE w:st="on">United StatesLACE> government’s policy towards providing wage supplements to parents whose wages are low is

A. considered ill advised by most economists who have studied the issue

B. based on assumptions about the appropriate sources of family income

C. under revision in response to criticism from some policy analysts

D. capable of eliminating wage inequality but not of raising incomes for both women and men (B)

E. applicable to single-parent families headed by women but not to single-parent families headed by men

它问的是the LACE w:st="on">United StatesLACE> government’s policy towards providing wage supplements to parents whose wages are low

从原文中看出B中说的假设是被chanlenge后要求政府提出的呀，那要求政府提出的这个决策里就不应该有这样的假设拉呀

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我的意思是经济学家既然反对based on assumptions about the appropriate sources of family income那么它力劝政府提供wage supplements to parents whose wages are low 的决策就不应该在基于其反对的假设拉呀

I have the same question. The same article can be found in GWD (1 ---- 13). I don't remember which one. Maybe the question is wrong.

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