Reading Comprehension (RC) | Re: Since the early 1970s, historians have begun to devote serious attent

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The passage tells us that historians have "begun to devote seriousattention to the working class" since the early 1970's. This suggests that historians did NOT devote serious attention to the working classbefore the 1970's.

Reading a little further, we learn that historians have also generallyignored worklessness. However, there is an exception to this generalization: "when historians have paid any attention to unemployment, they have focused on the Great Depression."

Let's now take a look at answer choice(E):


The passagedoes claim that before the 1970's, historians did not pay seriousattention to the working class. So does that make (E) correct?

Not really.
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