Reading Comprehension
试题详情
文章：
| Line | In 1955 Maurice Duverger published The Political |
| Role of Women, the first behavioralist, multinational | |
| comparison of women’s electoral participation ever to | |
| use election data and survey data together. | |
| (5) | His study analyzed women’s patterns of voting, |
| political candidacy, and political activism in four | |
| European countries during the first half of the | |
| twentieth century. Duverger’s research findings | |
| were that women voted somewhat less frequently | |
| (10) | than men (the difference narrowing the longer |
| women had the vote) and were slightly more | |
| conservative. | |
| Duverger’s work set an early standard for the | |
| sensitive analysis of women’s electoral activities. | |
| (15) | Moreover, to Duverger’s credit, he placed his |
| findings in the context of many of the historical | |
| processes that had shaped these activities. | |
| However, since these contexts have changed over | |
| time, Duverger’s approach has proved more durable | |
| (20) | than his actual findings. In addition, Duverger’s |
| discussion of his findings was hampered by his failure | |
| to consider certain specific factors important to | |
| women’s electoral participation at the time he | |
| collected his data: the influence of political regimes, | |
| (25) | the effects of economic factors, and the |
| ramifications of political and social relations between | |
| women and men. Given this failure, Duverger’s | |
| study foreshadowed the enduring limitations of the | |
| behavioralist approach to the multinational study of | |
| (30) | women’s political participation. |
题目：
The author implies that Duverger’s actual findings are
选项:
A、limited because they focus on only four countries
B、inaccurate in their description of the four countries in the early 1950s
C、out-of-date in that they are inapplicable in the four countries today
D、flawed because they are based on unsound data
E、biased by Duverger’s political beliefs
答案:
C
