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第2题我也错了，后来查了一下，appreciation有“Awareness or delicate perception--from thefreedictionary”、“理解、体谅、同情--from iciba”的意思，能够解释为什么用了understandable，是说他对“Black workers’ skepticism toward unions”表示理解，并不感到惊讶。而E是说作者为当年工会对黑人员工的态度感到悔恨、惋惜，即使作者理解黑人不diao工会是因为工会先不diao黑人，但没有进一步表示出作者对这一原因所表示出的主观情绪。

第5题， But it was only in the early 1930’s that federal legislation prohibiting a company from maintaining its own unions with company money eventually allowed the Brotherhood to become recognized as the porters’ representative. 直到30年代初法律开始禁止公司用公司的钱来维持自己的工会， B在最终成为代表porters的组织。

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另外求解一下第3题：

3.    The passage suggests which of the following about the response of porters to the Pullman Company’s own union?
(A) Few porters ever joined this union.
(B) Some porters supported this union before 1935.
(C) Porters, more than other Pullman employees, enthusiastically supported this union.
(D) The porters’ response was most positive after 1935.（B）
(E) The porters’ response was unaffected by the general skepticism of Black workers concerning unions.

难道B选项的some是从原文的"weakened"中推出来的？(An additional obstacle was the union that Pullman itself had formed, which weakened support among Black workers for an independent entity.) 。我选的A，是因为support不能等同于ever join吗？