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During the 1920s, most advocates of scientific management, Frederick Taylor`s method for maximizing workers` productivity by rigorously routinizing their jobs, opposed the five-day workweek. Although scientific managers conceded that reducing hours might provide an incentive to workers, in practice they more often used pay differentials to encourage higher productivity. Those reformers who wished to embrace both scientific management and reduced hours had to make a largely negative case, portraying the latter as an antidote to the rigors of the former. In contrast to the scientific managers, Henry Ford claimed that shorter hours led to greater productivity and profits. However, few employers matched either Ford`s vision or his specific interest in mass marketing a product-automobiles-that required leisure for its use, and few unions succeeded in securing shorter hours through bar-gaining. At its 1928 convention, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) boasted of approximately 165,000 members working five-day, 40-hour weeks. But although this represented an increase of about 75,000 since 1926, about 70 percent of the total came from five extremely well-organized building trades` unions.

According to the passage, the "reformers" (line 5) claimed that

Aneither scientific management nor reduced hours would result in an improvement in the working conditions of most workers Bthe impact that the routinization of work had on workers could be mitigated by a reduction in the length of their workweek Cthere was an inherent tension between the principles of scientific management and a commitment to reduced workweeks Dscientific managers were more likely than other managers to use pay differentials to encourage higher productivity Ereducing the length of the workweek would increase productivity more effectively than would increases in pay

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答案：B。
根据 reformers 定位到原文：Those reformers who wanted to accept
both scientific management and reduced hours had to make a
greatly negative case, depicting the latter as an antidote to the rigors
of the former. B 选项中的 mitigate 就是 antidote 的同义改写。这些改革
者认为，减少工作时间可以减少 scientific management 带来的 rigors。
A 错，改革者是两个都接受的。
C 错，an inherent tension 无中生有。
DE 错，比较级的无中生有。

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，，，，，我在别的机经上做了选C。连个官方的解析都不给。。。怎么学。。。。。

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2022-07-03 18:16:42

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Those reformers who wished to embrace both scientific management and reduced hours had to make a largely negative case, portraying the latter as an antidote to the rigors of the former. （sm和reduce都可以，sm太严苛的时候reduce就是解药。所以没有谁好谁差，reformer建议两个结合

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2022-07-01 11:16:37

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