問題詳情

44. Why did the women in a Guatemalan village return to shell corn by hand?
(A) It was important for them to socialize while they shell corn.
(B) It was unethical for the women to shell corn without the engineers’ help.
(C) It was more time-consuming to shell corn with the mechanical device.
(D) It was inappropriate for the engineers to design the device without permission.

參考答案

答案：A

統計：A:51,B:2,C:4,D:1,E:0

難度：非常簡單

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【anlulu】評論

However, wherever it is deployed, there is no guarantee that appropriate technology will in fact be appropriate. After some visiting engineers observed how labor-intensive and slow it was for the women of a Guatemalan village to shell corn by hand, they designed a simple mechanical device to do the job more quickly. The new device certainly saved time, but after a few weeks the women returned to the old manual method. Why? Because they valued the time that hand-shelling gave them to chat and exchange news.