Many scholars have theorized (學者的理論是什麼....必讀) that economic development, particularly industrialization and urbanization, contributes to (因果關係前面是因後面是果) the growth of participatory democracy; according to this theory (衍生推論) , it would (假設語氣) seem logical that women would both demand and gain suffrage in ever greater [P] numbers whenever economic development expanded their economic opportunities. However (轉折語氣) , the economic development theory is inadequate [N] to explain certain historical facts about the implementation of women’s suffrage. For example (舉例說明women’s suffrage跟Industrialization無關) , why was women’s suffrage, instituted nationally in the United States in 1920, not instituted nationally in Switzerland until the 1970’s? (設問手法答案才是重點) Industrialization was well advanced in both countries by 1920: over 33 percent of American workers were employed in various industries, as compared to (這裡說明的是相同點) 44 percent of Swiss workers. Granted, Switzerland and the United States diverged (關鍵字.....表Switzerland跟US在Industrialization 伴隨Urbanization發生的程度上產生分歧) in the degree to which the expansion of industry coincided with the degree of urbanization: (表Industrialization and Urbanization在時間順序上平行發生) only (武斷字眼....語氣強) 29 percent of the Swiss population lived in cities of 10,000 or more inhabitants by 1920. (從以上diverge可推論得知若Swiss只有29%住在城市中表US大部分都住在城市中) However (轉折語氣) , urbanization cannot [N] fully (武斷字眼) explain women’s suffrage. Within the United States prior to 1920, (在時間順序上先講1920時Switzerland and US所發生的Industrialization以及再講1920之前US的Urbanization都無法說明造成了women’s suffrage) for example (舉例說明women’s suffrage跟Urbanization無正相關) , only (武斷字眼) less urbanized states had granted women suffrage. Similarly (相同點) , less urbanized countries such as Cambodia and Ghana had voting rights for women long before Switzerland did. It is true (別人(非作者)的可能的Objection進來.....據徐老師說GMAT這裡必出一題.....果然就是Q5 :D ) that Switzerland’s urbanized cantons (political subdivisions) generally enacted women’s suffrage legislation earlier than did rural cantons. However (轉折語氣…作者對該Objection提出反駁) , these cantons often shared other characteristics—similar linguistic backgrounds and strong leftist parties—that may help to explain this phenomenon.
文章結構:Argument & Possible Objections(see 美加GMAT 手冊p.35 (V))