Q8 to Q10:
Acting on the recommen-
dation of a British government committee investigating the Line high incidence in white lead (5) factories of illness among employees, most of whom were women, the Home Sec- retary proposed in 1895 that Parliament enact legislation (10) that would prohibit women from holding most jobs in white lead factories. Although the Women’s Industrial Defence Committee (WIDC), formed (15) in 1892 in response to earlier legislative attempts to restrict women’s labor, did not dis- count the white lead trade’s potential health dangers, it (20) opposed the proposal, view- ing it as yet another instance of limiting women’s work opportunities. Also opposing the proposal was the Society (25) for Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW), which attempted to challenge it by investigating the causes of ill- ness in white lead factories. (30) SPEW contended, and WIDC concurred, that controllable conditions in such factories were responsible for the devel- opment of lead poisoning. (35) SPEW provided convincing evidence that lead poisoning could be avoided if workers were careful and clean and if already extant workplace (40) safety regulations were stringently enforced. How- ever, the Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL), which had ceased in the late 1880’s (45) to oppose restrictions on women’s labor, supported the eventually enacted proposal, in part because safety regu- lations were generally not (50) being enforced in white lead factories, where there were no unions (and little prospect of any) to pressure employers to comply with safety regulations.
Q8: Which of the following, if true, would most clearly support the contention attributed to SPEW in lines 30-34 (“SPEW contended … lead poisoning”) ? Those white lead factories that most strongly enforced regulations concerning worker safety and hygiene had the lowest incidences of lead poisoning among employees. 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. 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. White lead factories were more stringent than were certain other types of factories in their enforcement of workplace safety regulations. - Even brief exposure to the conditions typically found in white lead factories could cause lead poisoning among factory workers.
Answer:
我把原文和题目列出来了，请大家看看！ 我开始选的是A，但等我看完了E后，我觉得E更好。 可是大家好象都是选的A。E怎么错了？
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