According to the passage Loyalism during the
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According to the passage, Loyalism during the American Revolutionary War served the function of ______.
A．eliminating the disputes that existed among those colonists who supported the rebel cause
B．drawing upper, as opposed to lower, socioeconomic classes away from the rebel cause
C．tolerating the kinds of socioeconomic discontent that were not allowed to exist on the rebel side
D．absorbing members of socioeconomic groups on the rebel side who felt themselves in contention with members of other socioeconomic groups
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正确答案：D
解析：该题问：对本文而言，荚国独立战争的保皇主义作用是什么?A项意为“减少了存在于支持造反的殖民者之间的冲突”。the disputes特指几种不满(用的是复数)，而原文只提到了对社会经济的不满。B项意为“使上层社会经济阶层(相对下层而言)脱离造反理由”，本文中并有提及。C项意为“容忍各种社会经济矛盾，这些矛盾不允许存在于造反派之中”，本文没有提及。D项意为“吸收造反派中的社会经济阶层的成员，这些人感到自己与其它社会经济阶层有冲突”，在本文的第二段中可以找到相关线索Loyalism thus operated as a safety valve to remove socioeconomic discontent that existed among the rebels意为“因此保皇主义成了一个消除存在于造反派内部的社会经济矛盾的安全阀门”。因此可判断D项为正确选项。
