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Many scholars have theorized that economic development, particularly industrialization and urbanization, contributes to the growth of participatory democracy; according to this theory, it would seem logical that women would both demand and gain suffrage in ever greater numbers whenever economic development expanded their economic opportunities. However, the economic development theory is inadequate to explain certain historical facts about the implementation of women's suffrage. For example, why was women's suffrage, instituted nationally in the United States in 1920, not instituted nationally in Switzerland until the 1970s? Industrialization was well advanced in both countries by 1920: over 33 percent of American workers were employed in various industries, as compared to 44 percent of Swiss workers. Granted, Switzerland and the United States diverged in the degree to which the expansion of industry coincided with the degree of urbanization: only 29 percent of the Swiss population lived in cities of 10,000 or more inhabitants by 1920. However, urbanization cannot fully explain women's suffrage. Within the United States prior to 1920, for example, only less urbanized states had granted women suffrage. Similarly, less urbanized countries such as Cambodia and Ghana had voting rights for women long before Switzerland did. It is true that Switzerland's urbanized cantons (political subdivisions) generally enacted women's suffrage legislation earlier than did rural cantons. However, these cantons often shared other characteristics—similar linguistic backgrounds and strong leftist parties—that may help to explain this phenomenon.
The primary purpose of the passage is to
contrast two explanations for the implementation of women's suffrage
demonstrate that one factor contributes more than another factor to the implementation of women's suffrage
discuss the applicability of a theory for explaining the implementation of women's suffrage
clarify certain assumptions underlying a particular theory about the implementation of women's suffrage
explain how a particular historical occurrence was causally connected to the implementation of women's suffrage
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答案：C. discuss the applicability of a theory for explaining the implementation of women s suffrage。
因为文章介绍了一个有关经济发展对女性参政资格的影响的理论，并介绍了与这一理论不一致的历史事实，以说明这一理论的适用性。文章的主要目的是讨论这一理论的适用性，因此答案是C. discuss the applicability of a theory for explaining the implementation of women s suffrage.
文中一开头提出了一个theory：economic development, particularly industrialization and urbanization, contributes to the growth of participatory democracy，接下来文中直接说However, the economic development theory is inadequate to explain certain historical facts about the implementation of women's suffrage.接下来分别讲了 industrialization和urbanization程度不一定和女性投票权成正比。这个中心题是直接定位的题目，注意discuss就是探讨（可能有问题的地方）而clarify是澄清，所以不应该做错！
错选B，demonstrate that one factor contributes more than another factor to the implementation of women's suffrage。文章并没有证明另外一个因素比这个因素对于 women suffrage贡献更多。文章最后一句才引出因因素，文章一直在说城镇化的因素是如何不能完全解释women's suffrage的。
学习到一点：即使是一直质疑一个理论，也可以说成discuss the applicability of a theory
在CD之间犹豫选了D，文章其实主要是说经济的发展并没有导致妇女suffrage的推进，后面用瑞典和美国比较，又用东亚国家即使经济落后但是妇女的suffrage反而很早，来说文章一开始的推论是不对的，因此C里面说discuss更准确。D说clarify不能准确的表达文章的中心思想。
错选了b！但是另一种解释的可能是在最后一句才提到的，并且也并没有佐证这个理论会为什么更有道理，不论是在具体内容上还是结构上面都不太合理，所以选c肯定更加合理
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错选d，文章中说到主旨句“However, the economic development theory is （inadequate） to explain certain historical facts about the implementation of women's suffrag”
作者一直在质疑讨论这个theory的可用性-（discuss） the applicability of a theory for explaining the implementation of women's suffrage
而不是（clarify） assumption澄清阐明
b不是两个factor的对比，文章多次出现explain，并不是描述一个factor
However, the economic development theory is inadequate to explain certain historical facts about the implementation of women's suffrage.
discuss the applicability of a theory for explaining the implementation of women's suffrage
完美对应
However, the economic development theory is inadequate to explain certain historical facts about the implementation of women's suffrage.
这一句
contrast表示对比，理解错误成了反驳。
D:clarify阐明，文章不是在说明，是有点质疑的意思。讨论理论的可接受度更合适一些
错选A，这个选项说文章在“对比”，但是其实只是提出城市化和工业化对女性选举权的影响，并且分别论证，并没有在对比。
C选项说，讨论了一个赋予女性选举权的理论的可适用性。如果我当时把这个选项看完应该不会选错了。
suffrage 投票权，选举权
However, the economic development theory is inadequate to explain certain historical facts about the implementation of women's suffrage.
Economic development, particularly industrialization and urbanizatin, contributes to the growth of participatory democracy.
文章讨论 not industriliazation and not urbanization, but canon or more exactly linguistic backgrounds and strong leftist parties help to explain the discrepency
So the primary purporse of article is to discuss the applicability of one theory.
文章讲了很多原因。但是这些原因是服务于 女性的参政权导致了economic urbanization and industrialization 这个命题