搜了只有一个讨论贴,而且一致认为答案不对?偶选的和他们也一样的诶...有同感的吗?The idea that equipping homes
with electrical appliances and other
“modern” household technologies
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would eliminate drudgery, save labor
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time, and increase leisure for women
who were full-time home workers remained largely unchallenged until the women’s movement of the 1970’s spawned the groundbreaking and
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influential works of sociologist Joann
Vanek and historian Ruth Cowan. Vanek analyzed 40 years of time- use surveys conducted by home economists to argue that electrical
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appliances and other modern house-
hold technologies reduced the effort required to perform specific tasks, but ownership of these appliances did not correlate with less time spent on
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housework by full-time home workers.
In fact, time spent by these workers
remained remarkably constant―at
about 52 to 54 hours per week―from the 1920’s to the 1960’s, a period
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of significant change in household
technology.
In surveying two centuries of household technology in the United States, Cowan arguedthat the “industrialization” of the home
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often resulted in more work for full-time
home workers because the use of such devices as coal stoves, water
pumps, and vacuum cleaners tended
to reduce the workload of married-
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women’s helpers (husbands, sons,
daughters, and servants) while promoting a more rigorous standard of housework.
The full-time home worker’s duties also shifted to include
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more household management, child
care, and the post-Second World War phenomenon of being “Mom’s taxi.”
Q4: The passage is primarily concerned with A analyzing a debate between two scholars B challenging the evidence on which a new theory is based C describing how certain scholars’ work countered a prevailing view D presenting the research used to support a traditional theory E evaluating the methodology used to study a particular issue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q5: Which of the following best describes the function of the sentence in lines 21-26 (“In fact, time … in household technology”)? A It offers an alternative interpretation of a phenomenon described in the previous sentence (lines 12-20). B It provides the specific evidence on which an argument described in the previous sentence (lines 12-20) is based. C It shifts the focus of the argument developed earlier in the passage. D It introduces evidence that has not been taken into account by Vanek and Cowan. E It introduces a topic for discussion that will be developed in the rest of the passage. 我的答案是C,B 给的答案是A,C | 
