(1) Identify the Question Type
The language if true and calls into question indicate that this is a Weaken question.
(2) Deconstruct the Argument
The argument first establish the fact that buyers of fashion clothing are more likely to purchase from a particular company if that company donates money to charity as a result. As a result, the organizers of a particular event plan to publicize the specific companies that donate a portion of sales revenues to charity. The stated goal is to increase those companies revenues, so the organizers are assuming that informing potential buyers of this fact will cause them to buy more from those particular companies.
(3) State the Goal
The correct answer should Weaken, or make somewhat less valid, the idea that publicizing the charitable companies will cause buyers to buy more from those companies.
(4) Work from Wrong to Right
(A) The cost of producing the flyers is irrelevant to the retailers' revenues. This would be true even if the retailers were paying for the flyers, but this answer choice talks only of the cost for the organizers.
[size=12.0012px]4. Small community hospitals in poor urban areas almost always operate at a loss due to an unfortunate cycle of factors. High revenue specialists, such as surgeons, flock to hospitals that are more prestigious and can afford to pay higher salaries. Aware of this, local residents patronize the more affluent nearby hospitals when they need specialty care or forgo care entirely, while only utilizing the local hospital for low-margin routine care. Further, a significant majority of the community uses government health plans, which reimburse poorly for routine care, or lacks insurance entirely and cannot pay. The local hospital then loses money and cannot afford to hire specialists to conduct the higher-margin specialty care.
Which of the following, if it could be accomplished, would best help small community hospitals to break the pattern described above?
[size=12.0012px] | | Negotiate higher reimbursement rates for specialty care with both government health plans and private insurers. |
| | Advertise the hospital's specialty care services in the local community as well as nearby communities to attract more business. |
| | Partner with a nearby affluent hospital to contract its specialists on a part-time, as-needed basis, which is more affordable than hiring these specialists full time. |
| | Launch a community outreach campaign to educate the public about the low reimbursement rates of government health plans compared with the high rates paid by private insurers. |
| | Negotiate with private insurers for higher reimbursement rates for routine care. |
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We are given a list of problematic events, each one leading to the next, and we are asked to find a way to break the cycle of events. In order to do so, we need to find a way to alter one of these events in such a way that it will change the overall cycle so that small community hospitals are no longer losing money (at least, for these particular reasons).
(A) The reimbursement rates for specialty care are not a part of the problematic cycle; rather, the relatively low volume of specialty care at community hospitals is the problem. If the hospital is doing very little or no specialty care work in the first place, then charging more for specialty care won't help much.
(B) Even if the hospital successfully advertises its specialty care services and attracts a lot of new customers, it will not be able to serve these customers because it does not have the necessary specialists in place to provide the specialty care. This choice does not "follow through" the entire cycle.
(C) CORRECT. Since the local residents choose to patronize the nearby affluent hospitals due to the presence of specialists, they will also begin to patronize the community hospital, which is using these same specialists. The amount of high-margin specialty care will increase and the hospital will make more money, thus enabling it to continue using specialists.
(D) The mere act of educating the public about the relatively low reimbursement rates of government health plans does not directly impact the hospital or break the cycle. In order for this to work, the hospital would have to find some way to increase reimbursement rates for routine care from the government plans or convert people from government plans to private insurers that reimburse at better rates.
(E) Most of the community hospital's patients are either on government-funded plans or lack insurance altogether. Receiving more money from private insurers, therefore, is unlikely to generate enough revenue to break the cycle.
最后这道题感觉没有逻辑性啊 缺什么就补什么？ 感觉太浅了不符合gmat的feel啊 不过这道题是600-700库的 前三道是700-800库的
后悔了。