大全-B-15

15.   In the effort to fire a Civil Service employee, his or her manager may have to spend up to $100,000 of tax money. Since Civil Service employees know how hard it is to fire them, they tend to loaf. This explains in large part why the government is so inefficient.

It can be properly inferred on the basis of the statements above that the author believes which of the following?

I.      Too much job security can have a negative influence on workers.

II.     More government workers should be fired.

III.   Most government workers are Civil Service employees.

(A) I only

(B) I and III only

(C) II only

(D) I, II, and III（A）

(E) III only

我选B，我认为III.Most government workers are Civil Service employees是作者的assumption，I是结论。两个都可以说是the author believes 的东西，为什么只有I对？

为什么没有人回帖？555……

MM，III错在MOST上。即使是一小部分人属于Civil Service employees，也会造成政府的INEFFICIENT的。

为什么没有人讨论A？

怎么能推出A？这题考的是conlusion(inferred)还是assumption？

如果考conclusion的话，不是说答案的所有信息都来源于原文吗？A一点字都没沾上边。虽然A的意思我也能从原文里知道，但考逻辑不是不能总是靠自己推论吗，要根据原文信息来。

糊涂了。究竟这题的考点是什么？

I. Too much job security can have a negative influence on workers. = they tend to loaf

Hence, choice A is correct.

不是偷懒就要被解雇阿，文章没有提及那些偷懒的人偷懒的程度如何。是否有解雇的必要。只是，如你所说的确有人会钻空子罢了。。但也可能只是小问题，不严重到需要解雇的地步。