4. According to the passage, which of the following is true of the unemployment rates mentioned in line 15?信息题
(A) They hovered徘徊，起伏, on average, around 15 percent during the period 1870-1920时间范围不对.
(B) They give less than a full sense of*4B the impact of unemployment on working-class people.
(C) They overestimate the importance of middle class and white-collar（第三段的内容，非出题段落） unemployment.
(D) They have been considered by many historians没有这种说法 to underestimate the extent of working-class unemployment.（B）
(E) They are more open to question数据没有错，图景不对，不能说更值得怀疑 when calculated for years other than those of peak recession.
5. Which of the following statements about the unemployment rate during the Great Depression*5 can be inferred from the passage?
(A) It was sometimes higher than 15 percent.取非
(B) It has been analyzed seriously only since the early 1970’s.
(C) It can be calculated more easily than can unemployment frequency.
(D) It was never as high as the rate during the 1870’s.（A）
(E) It has been shown by Keyssar to be lower than previously thought.
6. According to the passage, Keyssar considers which of the following to be among the important predictors（第三段） of the likelihood that a particular person would be unemployed in late nineteenth-century Massachusetts?罗马数字题
I. The person’s class*6
II. Where*6 the person lived or worked
III. The person’s age
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) I and II only
(D) I and III only（C）
(E) I, II, and III
7. The author views Keyssar’s study with态度题
(A) impatient disapproval
(B) wary concern
(C) polite skepticism
(D) scrupulous neutrality（E）
(E) qualified admiration大+小-
8. Which of the following, if true, would most strongly support Keyssar’s findings as they are described by the author?逻辑题（支持题——三种做法：搭桥法、啰嗦法、具体事例法）（重要）
(A) Boston（文中没提到过，应该是具体事例法，类似于类比题）, Massachusetts, and Quincy, Massachusetts, adjoining communities, had a higher rate of unemployment for working-class people in 1870 than in 1890文中没有比过这两个年份.
(B) White-collar professionals such as attorneys had as much trouble as错了，文中说的是白领的失业可能性比较小 day laborers in maintaining a steady level of employment throughout the period 1870-1920.
(C) Working-class women living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, were more likely than working-class men文中没有把性别作为一个主要指标比较 living in Cambridge to be unemployed for some period of time during the year 1873.
(D) In the 1890’s, shoe-factory workers moved away in large numbers from Chelmsford, Massachusetts, where*8D与地理有关 shoe factories were being replaced by other industries, to adjoining West Chelmsford, where the shoe industry flourished.（D）
(E) In the late nineteenth century, workers of all classes in Massachusetts were more likely than workers of all classes in other states文中说的是麻省的例子代表了其他州，不存在对比关系 to move their place of residence from one location to another within the state.
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