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以下是该段文章的最后一段：
At the same time, a lack of forthrightness on the part of organizations has led to 20
increased cynicism among employees about management’s motivation and competence. 21
Employees are now working 15 percent more hours per week than they were 20 years ago, 22
but organizations acknowledge this fact only by running stress-management workshops 23
to help employees to cope. Sales people are being asked to increase sales at the same time 24
organizations have cut travel, phone, and advertising budgets. Employees could probably 25
cope effectively with changes in the psychological contract if organizations were more 26
forthright about how they were changing it. But the euphemistic jargon used by executives 27
to justify the changes they were implementing frequently backfires; rather than 28
engendering sympathy for management’s position, it sparks employees’ desire to be 29
free of the organization all together. In a recent study of employees’ attitudes about 30
management, 49 percent of the sample strongly agreed that “management will take 31
advantage of you if given the chance.”
Question 7:
Which of the following best characterizes the function of the final sentence of the
passage (lines 30-32)?
A. It is such as an alternative explanation for phenomenon discussed earlier in the passage.
B. It provides data intended to correct a common misconception.
C. It further weakens an argument that is being challenged by the author.
D. It introduces a specific piece of evidence in support of a claim made at beginning
of the final paragraph (lines 20-21). E. It answers a question that is implicit in the preceding sentence (lines 27-30).
个人感觉Q7的答案应该是E，因为我觉得，该段的首句是该段的中心句，意思是“由于公司缺少同员工的沟通而导致了员工对公司管理的动机和能力的愤世嫉俗的态度高涨”，而以下内容都是围绕这句话而展开的，或者说该句下面的全部内容用来说明该中心句的，而最后一句话只是其中的一部分。或者，换句话讲，最后一句话只说了“愤世嫉俗的”的态度，没有说“缺少沟通”与“愤世嫉俗”之间的关系。
我们再来看到数第二句话，
But the euphemistic jargon used by executives 27
to justify the changes they were implementing frequently backfires; rather than 28
engendering sympathy for management’s position, it sparks employees’ desire to be 29
free of the organization all together. In a recent study of employees’ attitudes about 30
management, 49 percent of the sample strongly agreed that “management will take 31
advantage of you if given the chance.”
rather than 表示一种转折，“不是。。。而是。。。”，暗含着与顺接（这里it代替euphemistic jargon，委婉的方式应得到员工的同情）相反（员工决定离开公司）的关系，也就暗含着一个疑问----为什么会有这种相反的结果，而最后一句恰恰回答了这个疑问----因为员工愤世嫉俗的态度。所以E正确。
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