OG12th-89, 没有找到以前的讨论

89.

Since it has become known that several of a bank’s top executives have been buying shares in their own bank, the bank’s depositors, who had been worried by rumors that the bank faced impending financial collapse, have been greatly relieved.  They reason that since top executives evidently have faith in the bank’s financial soundness, those worrisome rumors must be false.  They might well be overoptimistic, however since corporate executives have sometimes bought shares in their own company in a calculated attempt to dispel negative rumors about the company’s health.

In the argument given, the two boldfaced portions play which of the followng roles?

A. The first describes evidence that has been taken as supporting a conclusion; the second gives a reason for questioning that support.

B. The first describes evidence that has been taken as supporting a conclusion; the second states a contrary conclusion that is the main conclusion of the argument.

C. The first provides evidence in support of the main conclusion of the argument; the second states that conclusion.

D. The first describes the circumstance that the argument as a whole seeks to explain; the second gives the explanation that the argument seeks to establish.

E. The first describes the circumstance that the arument as a whole seeks to explain; the second provides evidence in support of the explanation that the argument seeks to establish.

答案: A, 不懂为啥是A 不是D

还是不明白.

A中的"supporting a conclusion"是指 banker's depositors have been greatly relieved" 而非本段的结论"They might well be overoptimistic"吗?

感觉D不对的原因在BF1的描述describes the circumstance that the argument as a whole seeks to explain 请NN帮忙

我试试：看到however,说明转折，后面的话是与前面相反的。前半部分的结论是：那些银行的客户认为，既然银行的高层都买了这个银行的股票了，那么那些说这个银行会金融崩溃的谣言就是假的了。第一段黑体字，正是用来说明这一结论的证据。然后，however后面，作者提出疑问：有可能这些高层买股票就是为了抑制谣言，也就是说到底有没有金融崩溃的事情并不能通过高层买股票这件事来证明，银行的客户可能过分乐观了。而这就是第二段黑体字的作用。

不知道我说的清楚不。

个人认为这段的结论是HOWEVER前面的那个短句： They might well be overoptimistic ，而however后面的是来说明他的

个人觉得在A选项中的questioning that support应该对应这句话的功能“They might well be overoptimistic”而 however后面的话即BF2是给出一个理由来支持 “They might well be overoptimistic”。

而BF2本身的意思是：因为那些被知道买了自己公司的股票的高管试图驱散影响公司声誉的谣言。即，作者并没有明显指出因为高管知道自己买了股票一定可以驱散谣言，他们只是试图这么做。所以BF2只能是支持“可能过于乐观”，不能作为解释。

D选项的对BF1的描述也不对，因为BF1在句子一中明显是作为一个论据来推到出第一句的小结论。

有呀，They might well be overoptimistic就是作者要establish的argument呀

简单点吧：（题目：They reason that since (因为）top executives evidently have faith in the bank’s financial soundness, （所以）those worrisome rumors must be false）＝A选项里的a conclusion，第一段黑体是对它的support.

They might （表怀疑）well be overoptimistic。而第二段黑体就是表达对这个support的怀疑的理由。

同意DANDAN的观点，我这题开始也错了，看着这个帖子琢磨了下，可能是MIGHT的问题。LZ可以比较下124题，同样也是BOLDFACE并且有两个相反观点（貌似一般BOLDFACE题都这样，或者我孤陋寡闻），但是124题比较明显的表达了反方观点的因果关系....would be....however since......即作者认为这是个有因有果的ARGUMENT，而89题，作者用了MIGHT，语意上倾向于这是一种猜测和推测。不过光从一个语气词推论出正确答案我觉得ETS是有点BT的。