Many scholars have theorized that economic development, particularly industrialization and urbanization, contributes to the growth of participatory democracy. According to this theory, it would seem logical that women would both demand and gain suffrage in ever greater numbers whenever economic development expanded their economic opportunities. However, the economic development theory is inadequate to explain certain historical facts about the implementation of women' s suffrage. For example, why was women' s suffrage, instituted nationally in the United States in 1920, not instituted nationally in Switzerland until the 1970? Industrialization was well advanced in both countries by 1920: over 33 percent of American workers were employed in various industries, as compared to 44 percent of Swiss workers. Granted, Switzerland and the United States diverged in the degree to which the expansion of industry coincided with the degree of urbanization: only 29 percent of the Swiss population lived in cities of 10,000 or more inhabitants by 1920. However, urbanization cannot fully explain women' s suffrage. Within the United States prior to 1920, for example, only less urbanized states had granted women suffrage. Similarly, less urbanized countries such as Cambodia and Ghana had voting rights for women long before Switzerland did. It is true that Switzerland's urbanized cantons (political subdivisions) generally enacted women' s suffrage legislation earlier than did rural cantons.
However, these cantons often shared other characteristics—similar linguistic backgrounds and strong leftist parties—that may help to explain this phenomenon.
The passage suggests which of the following about states in the United States prior to 1920?
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The passage suggests which of the following about states in the United States prior to 1920?
定位到这里：Within the United States prior to 1920, for example, only less urbanized states had granted women suffrage.
1920年以前的美国：只有城市化极低的州赋予女人选举权。
A. The states that were not highly urbanized were slow to未提
B. The states that were highly urbanized were the most influential绝对
C. The most highly urbanized states were more likely to have strong leftist parties.定位未提
D. The most highly urbanized states were not necessarily the most industrialized ones.定位未提
E. The most highly urbanized states had not yet granted women's suffrage.
想问less urbanized states 怎么理解 less是states数量小，还是urbanized程度小
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2019-10-08 20:40:19
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从上下文作者表达的意思来看，应该指的是urbanize的程度。作者的这种表达方式如果从sc的角度来看绝对应该会被视为表达不到位吧我觉得。
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2020-04-13 22:31:24
a,b含义其实类似，a说低u states确定女性选举权慢，b说高Ustates确定女性选举权方面最有影响，都是和句子意思相反，b也有极端词错误，c主要是定位错误和information-mix up,d是说工业化合城市化关系，无关选项，选e合理
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2017-12-12 16:03:13
Within the United States prior to 1920, for example, only less urbanized states had granted women suffrage. e 就是这句话反过来说
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