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Here is a paragraph from an article on the economist:
Quarantines have become tariffs by another name, Mr Harrison states at the beginning of Contagion, which moves with scholarly deliberateness from 12th-century Europe through to the globalised early 20th century, to demonstrate how modern-day quarantines evolved. Commerce was already associated with infection during the Black Death, though it would be hundreds of years before rats were singled out as its carrier, and the first quarantines followed soon after. When the plague reappeared in Britain and on the continent in the 1660s, European countries used tit-for-tat quarantines to keep out competitors, skim fees from merchants, reassure trading partners and punish those who quarantined them.
Full Link:
http://www.economist.com/node/21564529
My questions on this:
1) Quarantine=put into isolatation and tariff=almost like taxes . . .so what does that quote even have to do with the whole passage?
2) Why would you reassure trading partners in times of a pandemic?
This other paragraph came from EK 101 Verbal Passages Test 5:
Mr. Rothstein will surely recognize that almost all the musicians profiled in the classroom were included not to increase their reputation to fugture listeners but because their contemporaries were significantly influenced by them during or soon after their lifetimes. It would not be therefore, be logical to conclude that the selected musicians only achieved their fame after and because of their nclusion into the curriculum.
My questions on this:
1) To me, it sounds like the author is in agreement with Mr. Rothestein .. . but the answer to question #2 state otherwise. What is this paragraph really trying to say? What is the author's view of Mr. Rothestein?
Here is a paragraph from an article on the economist:
Quarantines have become tariffs by another name, Mr Harrison states at the beginning of Contagion, which moves with scholarly deliberateness from 12th-century Europe through to the globalised early 20th century, to demonstrate how modern-day quarantines evolved. Commerce was already associated with infection during the Black Death, though it would be hundreds of years before rats were singled out as its carrier, and the first quarantines followed soon after. When the plague reappeared in Britain and on the continent in the 1660s, European countries used tit-for-tat quarantines to keep out competitors, skim fees from merchants, reassure trading partners and punish those who quarantined them.
Full Link:
http://www.economist.com/node/21564529
My questions on this:
1) Quarantine=put into isolatation and tariff=almost like taxes . . .so what does that quote even have to do with the whole passage?
2) Why would you reassure trading partners in times of a pandemic?
This other paragraph came from EK 101 Verbal Passages Test 5:
Mr. Rothstein will surely recognize that almost all the musicians profiled in the classroom were included not to increase their reputation to fugture listeners but because their contemporaries were significantly influenced by them during or soon after their lifetimes. It would not be therefore, be logical to conclude that the selected musicians only achieved their fame after and because of their nclusion into the curriculum.
My questions on this:
1) To me, it sounds like the author is in agreement with Mr. Rothestein .. . but the answer to question #2 state otherwise. What is this paragraph really trying to say? What is the author's view of Mr. Rothestein?
