[問題]天山7-q4-->好個左右為難題

[小晃兄]

The idea that equipping homes
with electrical appliances and other
“modern” household technologies
Line would eliminate drudgery, save labor
(5) 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
(10) influential works of sociologist Joann
Vanek and historian Ruth Cowan.
Vanek analyzed 40 years of timeuse
surveys conducted by home
economists to argue that electrical
(15) appliances and other modern household
technologies reduced the effort
required to perform specific tasks,
but ownership of these appliances did
not correlate with less time spent on
(20) 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
(25) of significant change in household
technology. In surveying two
centuries of household technology
in the United States, Cowan argued
that the “industrialization” of the home
(30) 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-
(35) 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
15
(40) more household management, child
care, and the post-Second World War
phenomenon of being “Mom’s taxi.”

4.According to the passage, which of the following is true about the idea mentioned in line 1?

A. It has been undermined by data found in time-use survey conducted by home economists
B. It was based on a definition of housework that was explicitly rejected by Vanek and Cowan.
C. It is more valid for the time period studied by Cowan than for the time period studied by Vanek.
D. It is based on an understimation of the time that married women spent on housework prior to the industrialization of the household.
E. It inaccurately suggested that new household technologies would reduce the effort required to perform housework.

答案A，不過B好像也不錯，請各位大大幫忙看一下，謝謝。

[michelle610]

我在想 第一句話好像沒有對"housework"下定義吧 被V和C推翻的是在家裡面配備新的電子設備或是其他的摩登的家電產品可以減少全職家庭主婦花在做家事的時間
所以B的 based on a definition of housework 應該是有問題的

如果有錯 還請各位大大指正 多謝

[小晃兄]

也許是我想太多，不過我認為第一句說的idea是現代化可以做到三件事：eliminate drudgery, save labor time, and increase leisure for women。
如果只有調查(全職主婦做家事時間並沒縮短)只能否定第三點。
因為V和C的分析才知道現代化確實達到1、2，不過家事定義愈來愈寬才達不到第三點，所以我選B，希望能與各位大大多多討論，謝謝。

[michelle610]

the “industrialization” of the home 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-women’s helpers(husbands, sons, daughters, and servants) while promoting a more rigorous standard of housework. ---->反駁了eliminate drudgery
but ownership of these appliances did not correlate with less time spent on housework by full-time home workers.---->反駁了save labor time,
因為工作的範圍變大了 且並沒有縮短工時---->所以反駁了increase leisure for women
所以我在想 是因為V和C兩個人的調查分析 所以否定了那三點 但是V和C並沒有對於家事重新定義 只是因為現代化工具的使用 所以讓家庭主婦要做的事情越來越多 家事的範疇變廣了 但是還是在做家事吧!!!

我想應該是這樣子吧 希望諸位大大可以解答囉!!