95.
When the cost of the products rose, the competitive ability of those export-dependent industries that bought them was sharply limited. This fact strongly supports the claim that those industries did not have sufficiently high profit margins to enable them to absorb the price increase, so choice A is the best answer.
作者: jandjshi 时间: 2006-3-28 05:40
(A) Profit margins in those industries were not high enough to absorb the rise in costs mentioned above.
A: Profit margins in those industries were not high enough to absorb the rise in costs mentioned above. 关键词: absorb.
A=Profit margins不够高, 不能接受成本上升, 并没有说cost的增长比实际的利润还高.
By the way, Profit margin是百分比, cost是实数, 不能拿来比. 简单的investment的常识懂一些会有帮助.
作者: juliet01192000 时间: 2006-3-29 00:21
(A) Profit margins in those industries were not high enough to absorb the rise in costs mentioned above.
A: Profit margins in those industries were not high enough to absorb the rise in costs mentioned above. 关键词: absorb.
A=Profit margins不够高, 不能接受成本上升, 并没有说cost的增长比实际的利润还高.
By the way, Profit margin是百分比, cost是实数, 不能拿来比. 简单的investment的常识懂一些会有帮助.
谢谢jandjshi 大虾的指点，看上去好像明白一些了，但还是有一些疑惑，望继续指教！谢谢，先：）
1 由于本可是学信息技术的所以确实对投资学不是很了解。google了一下，也没查清楚。
大虾可不可以在讲讲到底什么叫 Profit margins，或者给个连接让我看看也行。
2 按大虾的解释，我是这简单翻译一下这句话：
absorb: v. 吸收，吸引，承受；
一个百分比不够高，不足以承受（吸收）成本的增长。
（这里认为并不是量对于量上的抵消）
但是总觉得有些不舒服，应该是百分比承受百分比，数量（cost）承受数量。
感觉上面那个句子把，百分比和数量平行放置，是不是形式上就是一种比较呢？
3 一般must be true题都是选项是原文提干内容的重复。
这里有牵扯到是否具备经济学知识。判断一个产业他的竞争力减弱是不是只看他的Profit margins是否能absorb the cost？也就是说Profit margins是否能absorb the cost是判断一个产业他的竞争力是否被限制的唯一标准？
我的意思是，如果A选项只是一个产业他的竞争力被限制的众多原因中的一种（还可能有其他原因），那么提干就不一定能推出A选项。
等待解疑，谢谢！
在付息的过程中突然感到，复习其实是一种相互的过程，大家互问互答，才能引发学习积极性，并且解除疑惑。离考试日期时日不多，但希望可以和志同道合的G友相互讨论问题，共同进步。
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作者: jandjshi 时间: 2006-3-29 02:24
Profit margin = gross earning / revenue
举个例子: 我们公司去年收入$1 million, 公司profit margin 20%. 说明公司利润$200,000 (20%). 80%是cost (包括raw material, human resources, equipments等等). 现在cost上升了, 80%变成90%了, profit margin变成10%. 如果这个profit margin太低了, 那公司就提高自己产品的价格来提高自己的profit margin. 那么价格高了, competitiveness就低了. 所以profit margin和competitiveness有很大关系.
你说的第三点有道理, 如果是削弱题, 你的思路是正确的. 这题问的是conclusion.
题中: evidence1) cost went up. evidence2) limiting the ability to compete. 中间短了逻辑关系.
A连上这个关系: profit margin容不下 increasing cost. 根据我上面讲的: price will increase, 造成了competitiveness 下降.
A并没有说profit margin是唯一的原因. A只说profit margin not high enough是个sufficient condition.
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作者: juliet01192000 时间: 2006-3-30 20:36
同样 都是must be true题，为什么在作题方法上会有不同？
11. The fewer restrictions there are on the advertising of legal services, the more lawyers there are who advertise their services, and the lawyers who advertise a specific service usually charge less for that service than lawyers who do not advertise. Therefore, if the state removes any of its current restrictions, such as the one against advertisements that do not specify fee arrangements, overall consumer legal costs will be lower than if the state retains its current restrictions.
If the statements in the passage are true, which of the following must be true?
A. Some lawyers who now advertise will charge more for specific services if they do not have to specify fee arrangements in the advertisements.
B. More consumers will use legal services if there are fewer restrictions on the advertising of legal service.
C. If the restriction against advertisements that do not specify fee arrangements is removed, more lawyers will advertise their services.
D. If more lawyers advertise lower prices for specific services, some lawyers who do not advertise will also charge less than they currently charge for those services. C
E. If the only restrictions on the advertising of legal services were those that apply to every type of advertising, most lawyers would advertise their services.
95.
To protect certain fledgling industries, the government of country Z banned imports of the types of products those industries were starting to make. As a direct result, the cost of those products to the buyers, several export-dependent industries in Z, went up, sharply limiting the ability of those industries to compete effectively in their export markets.
Which of the following conclusions about country Z’s adversely affected export-dependent industries is best supported by the passage?
(A) Profit margins in those industries were not high enough to absorb the rise in costs mentioned above.
(B) Those industries had to contend with the fact that other countries banned imports from country Z.
(C) Those industries succeeded in expanding the domestic market for their products.
(D) Steps to offset rising materials costs by decreasing labor costs were taken in those industries. A
(E) Those industries started to move into export markets that they had previously judged unprofitable.
作者: hopelanxyn 时间: 2008-1-14 10:13
这道题怎摸也想不到是Ａ
看了所有的讨论贴，也不是很明白，只能自己尽量往答案靠：
reasoning: cost increases->limiting the ability of export competency
如果利润空间足够大，能够在不提价的基础上，解决成本上升问题 （即：原来有２０％利润空间，成本上升了１０％，现在的利润是１０％了），则成本上升问题并没有限制企业出口竞争力
如果利润空间本来就很小，如只有８％，但是成本上升了１０％，则只有通过提高价格才能有利润，则成本的上升限制了企业出口竞争力，因为价格提高了．
指教？？？
作者: Lily0515 时间: 2008-1-16 05:22
我说说我的想法
第一文章表示Z政府为了保护fledgling industries禁止进口
结果造成Z国依赖出口的产业其成本提高,必然在国外没竞争力
这题要找出文章支持的依赖出口的产业有的负面影响?
(A) Profit margins in those industries were not high enough to absorb the rise in costs mentioned above.->意味成本>边际利益,合理支持passage所述
(B) Those industries had to contend with the fact that other countries banned imports from country Z.->为贸易报复,文章并未提及属无关选项
(C) Those industries succeeded in expanding the domestic market for their products.
->从文章给的信息得不出这个结果
(D) Steps to offset rising materials costs by decreasing labor costs were taken in those industries. A->从文章给的信息得不出这个结果
(E) Those industries started to move into export markets that they had previously judged unprofitable.-> 从文章给的信息得不出这个结果
请指教
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