[求教]OG 13 85题

Acting on the recommendation of a British

government committee investigating the high

incidence in white lead factories of illness among

employees, most of whom were women, the Home

(5) Secretary proposed in 1895 that Parliament enact

legislation that would prohibit women from holding

most jobs in white lead factories. Although the

Women's Industrial Defence Committee (WIDC),

formed in 1892 in response to earlier legislative

(10) attempts to restrict women's labor, did not discount

the white lead trade's potential health dangers, it

opposed the proposal, viewing it as yet another

instance of limiting women's work opportunities.

Also opposing the proposal was the Society for

(15) Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW),

which attempted to challenge it by investigating the

causes of illness in white lead factories. SPEW

contended, and WIDC concurred, that controllable

conditions in such factories were responsible for the

(20) development of lead poisoning. SPEW provided

convincing evidence that lead poisoning could be

avoided if workers were careful and clean and if

already extant workplace safety regulations were

stringently enforced. However, the Women's Trade

(25) Union League (WTUL), which had ceased in the late

1880s to oppose restrictions on women's labor,

supported the eventually enacted proposal, in part

because safety regulations were generally not being

enforced in white lead factories, where there were

(30) no unions (and little prospect of any) to pressure
employers to comply with safety regulations.

85. Which of the following, if true, would most clearly

support the contention attributed to SPEW in

lines 17-20?

(A) Those white lead factories that most strongly

enforced regulations concerning worker safety

and hygiene had the lowest incidences of lead

poisoning among employees,

(B) The incidence of lead poisoning was much

higher among women who worked in white lead

factories than among women who worked in

other types of factories.

(C) There were many household sources of lead

that could have contributed to the incidence of

lead poisoning among women who also worked

outside the home in the late nineteenth century.

(D) White lead factories were more stringent than

were certain other types of factories in their

enforcement of workplace safety regulations.

(E) Even brief exposure to the conditions typically

found in white lead factories could cause lead

poisoning among factory workers.
正确答案选A。。为什么呀，哪位好心人给我解释解释