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  3. German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his military and diplomatic talent, but his legacy includes many of t

German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his military and diplomatic talent, but his legacy includes many of t

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问题     German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his military and diplomatic talent, but his legacy includes many of today’s social insurance programs. During the middle of the 19th century, Germany, along with other European nations, experienced an unprecedented rash of workplace deaths and accidents as a result of growing industrialization. Motivated in part by Christian compassion for the helpless as well as a practical political impulse to undercut the support of the socialist labor movement, Chancellor Bismarck created the world’s first worker’s compensation law in 1884.
    By 1908, the United States was the only industrial nation in the world that lacked workers’ compensation insurance. America’s injured workers could sue for damages in a court of law, but they still faced a number of tough legal barriers. For example, employees had to prove that their injuries directly resulted from employer negligence and that they themselves were ignorant about potential hazards in the workplace. The first state worker’s compensation law in this country was passed in 1911, and the program soon spread throughout the nation.
    After World War II， benefit payments to American workers did not keep up with the cost of living. In fact, real benefit levels were lower in the 1970s than they were in the 1940s, and in most states the maximum benefit was below the poverty level for a family of four. In 1970, President Richard Nixon set up a national commission to study the problems of workers’ compensation. Two years later, the commission issued 19 key recommendations, including one that called for increasing compensation benefit levels to 100 percent of the states’ average weekly wages.
    In fact, the average compensation benefit in America has climbed from 55 percent of the states’ average weekly wages in 1972 to 97 percent today. But, as most studies show, every 10 percent increase in compensation benefits results in a 5 percent increase in the numbers of workers who file for claims. And with so much more money floating in the workers’ compensation system, it’s not surprising that doctors and lawyers have helped themselves to a large slice of the growing pie.
We learn from the passage that the process of industrialization in Europe______.
选项 A、met growing resistance from laborers working at machines
B、resulted in the development of popular social insurance programs
C、was accompanied by an increased number of workshop accidents
D、required workers to be aware of the potential dangers at the workplace
答案C
解析 推论题。A项意为“遇到了在机器上工作的工人的越来越强烈的抗议”，B项意为“导致了受欢迎的社会保障制度的发展”，C项意为“伴随着工伤事故的增加”，D项意为“要求工人知道工厂中潜在的危险”。文中没有A项意思；B项错误在于，是工业发展中工伤事故的增加导致了社会保险制度的产生与发展，而非工业发展导致了社会保险制度的发展；C项与文章中“experienced an unprecedented rash of growing industrialization”相符；D项是根据第二段倒数第二句设计的干扰项。
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