个人觉得本题是:相关因果推理。
ABCD选项都是对这个onsite clinic方案的削弱,只有E是支持这个proposal的
Health care costs can be managed more effectively if companies intervene in the supply side of health care delivery just as they do with other key suppliers
健康管理的成本可以被更有效得管理,如果公司像干预核心供应商一样去干预健康管理供应商
P1先反驳了 these companies have shifted health care costs to employees in the form of wage deductions or high deductibles的做法
P2提出了新方法:Health care costs can be managed more effectively if companies intervene in the supply side of health care delivery just as they do with other key suppliers
Comparable worth, on the other hand, takes as its premise that certain tasks in dissimilar jobs may require a similar amount of training, effort, and skill; may carry similar responsibility; may be carried on in an environment having a similar impact upon the worker; and may have a similar dollar value to the employer.
定位:other mandates that can be applied to reduce or eliminate unjustified pay gaps between male and female workers have not remedied perceived pay inequities satisfactorily for the litigants in cases in which men and women hold different jobs.
信息出现在case in which men and women hold different jobs-> other mandates无法解决男性和女性从事不同工作的情况下产生的收入不平等
直接细节题: In the last decade, this approach has become a critical social policy issue, as large numbers of private-sector firms and industries as well as federal, state, and local governmental entities have adopted comparable worth policies or begun to consider doing so.
B选项:Correct。评价(确定)一个策略变化的意义。这里要首先注意,“significance”可以是“意义”的意思。文中没有说这个策略有多么重要,但是评价了它的意义。
主旨题:针对comparable worth,作者先抛出问题:在这个policy之下的gains究竟是precedent-setting nature ,还是transitory?随即跟出观点:是precedent-setting的
the development of archival research and the critical editing of collections of documents began to reveal significant new historical evidence concerning women
The disappearance of women as objects of historical studies during this period has elements of irony to it: on one hand....., on the other hand...
从2个方面来阐述irony具体是如何表现:(1)要求忽略second-hand information;(2)揭露了很多新的信息,然而这些信息都被认为是irrelevant的
主旨句:The professionalization of the study of history in the second half of the nineteenth century, including history's transformation from a literary genre to a scientific discipline, had important consequences not only for historians' perceptions of women but also for women as historians.
对历史研究的职业化,包括从文学体裁到科学定律,具有非常重要的结果:不仅是历史学家对于女性的理解,还有对于本身就是就是历史学家的女性
whether or not 这个店可以排除BCE,AD之间时态平行
pledging的修饰对象应该是project而不是initiation, DE排掉
initiated 的修饰对象不是investment,而是project,B排掉
AC的区别在于 on the Columbus Day 1992修饰谁
European arrived in the New World不可能是1992发生的,所以1992修饰的是initiated,选C
Ron: hmm, interesting. i guess that one takeaway we can get here is that, if everything else seems equal, then numerical statistics add weight to the argument.
D提到death的数量被夸大,这是用来反驳K的观点的,但我觉得严格来讲,也可以兼容,因为在K看来黑死病不是主要的原因。
D真正的硬伤其实是,没有把death attributed to Black Death
是司机现有的情况和司机将有的情况比较 而不是current one这个速度规则比较
B. 错在only by(实际上也违背了题干给出的前提)
题干This success rate, exceptionally high for university fund-raisers
E:作者本就认为司法偏见不存在,否则1830s前的案例不应该被引用