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When Kathie Gifford’s face was splashed across the newspapers in 1996 after her lucrative line of Wal-Mart clothing was exposed

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问题     When Kathie Gifford’s face was splashed across the newspapers in 1996 after her lucrative line of Wal-Mart clothing was exposed as the work of underpaid laborers in New York City’s Chinatown, the Department of Labor and the White House teamed up to condemn such practices. With much fanfare, President Clinton’s administration launched the "No Sweat" campaign, which pressured retailers and manufacturers to submit to periodic independent inspection of their workplace conditions.
    This campaign urged manufacturers to sign the Workplace Code of Conduct, a promise to self-regulate that has since been adopted by a handful of retailers and many of the nation’s largest manufacturers including Nike and L. L. Bean. However, the Department of Defense, which has a $1 billion garment business that would make it the country’s 14th largest retail apparel outlet, has not signed the Code of Conduct. In addition, it has not agreed to demand that its contractors submit to periodic inspections.
    Because the Department of Defense has not agreed to adhere to the code, the job of stopping public sector sweatshops falls to the Department of Labor. Federal contractors that persist in violating wage laws or safety and health codes can lose their lucrative payer financed contracts. But Suzanne Selden, a deputy administrator at the Department of Labor, says that to her knowledge, the department has never applied that rule to government apparel manufacturers. "I just assume that they are adhering to safety and health requirements," she says. According to records obtained by Mother Jones, through a Freedom of Information Act request, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Lion 32 times for safety and health violations in the past 12 years.
The underlined phrase "to submit to" is closest in meaning to________.
选项 A、to accept unwillingly
B、to refuse coldly
C、to welcome warm-heartedly
D、to blame strongly
答案A
解析 词义理解题。第一段最后一句指出，克林顿政府发起了“不流汗”运动，向零售商和制造商施加压力，要求他们 对工作场所环境进行定期的独立检查；接着第二段第一句指出，该运动敦促制造商签署《工作场所行为准则》，而该准则已被少数零售商和美国许多大型制造商所采用。由此可知，“不流汗”运动向零售商和制造商施加压力，是要求他们接受对工作场所环境进行定期的独立检查，故“不情愿地接受”最接近to submit to的意思，答案为A项。
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