1. Commissioner: Budget forecasters project a revenue shortfall of a billion dollars in the coming fiscal year. Since there is no feasible way to increase the available funds, our only choice is to decrease expenditures. The plan before you outlines feasible cuts that would yield savings of a billion dollars over the coming fiscal year. We will be able to solve the problem we face, therefore, only if we adopt this plan.
This reasoning in the commissioner’s argument is flawed because this argument
A: confuses being an adequate solution with being a required solution
2. For next year, the Chef’s Union has requested a 10 percent salary increase for each of its members, whereas the Hotel Managers’ Union has requested only an 8 percent salary increase for each of its members. These facts demonstrate that the average dollar amount of the raises that the Chefs’ Union has requested for next year is greater than that of the raises requested by the Hotel Managers’ Union. Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?
A: The current salaries of the members of the Chefs’ Union are, on average, higher than the current salaries of the members of the Hotel Managers’ Union
3. High school students who feel that they are not succeeding in school often drop out before graduating and go to work. Last year, however, the city’s high school dropout rate was significantly lower than the previous year’s rate. This is encouraging evidence that the program instituted two years ago to improve the morale of high school students has begun to take effect to reduce dropouts. Which one of the following, if true about the last year, most seriously weakens the argument?
A. There was a recession that caused a high level of unemployment in the city.
4. The television show Henry was not widely watched until it was scheduled for Tuesday evenings immediately after That’s Life, the most popular show on television. During the year after the move, Henry was consistently one of the ten most-watched shows on television. Since Henry’s recent move to Wednesday evenings, however, it has been watched by far fewer people. We must conclude that Henry was widely watched before the move to Wednesday evenings because it followed That’s Life and not because people especially liked it. Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?
A. The show that now follows That’s Life on Tuesdays has double the number of viewers it had before being moved.
AA: JJ Q11 “The Easy Credit Company would gain an advantage over competing credit card services if we were to donate a portion of the proceeds from the use of our cards to a well-known environmental organization in exchange for the use of its symbol or logo on our card. Since a recent poll shows that a large percentage of the public is concerned about environmental issues, this policy would attract new customers, increase use among existing customers, and enable us to charge interest rates that are higher than the lowest ones available.”作者: 纳丁Cat 时间: 2011-9-3 14:59
9-3 1. 35s Commissioner: Budget forecasters project a revenue shortfall of a billion dollars in the coming fiscal year. Since there is no feasible way to increase the available funds, our only choice is to decrease expenditures. The plan before you outlines feasible cuts that would yield savings of a billion dollars over the coming fiscal year. We will be able to solve the problem we face, therefore, only if we adopt this plan.
This reasoning in the commissioner’s argument is flawed because this argument 委员：预测下一年将有deficit。所以我们必须要减少支出。
削弱：建立在预测上。 A: confuses being an adequate solution with being a required solution 思路：年度财务预算下一财年收入不足量one billion dollars，由于没有feasible way增加可得资金，只有削减开支。因而只是做了一个如何之间节省10亿美金的计划，it is just a required solution but not adequate maybe. 说理分析
2. 35s For next year, the Chef’s Union has requested a 10 percent salary increase for each of its members, whereas the Hotel Managers’ Union has requested only an 8 percent salary increase for each of its members. These facts demonstrate that the average dollar amount of the raises that the Chefs’ Union has requested for next year is greater than that of the raises requested by the Hotel Managers’ Union. Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument? 前提：厨师会要要求涨10%的工资。管理会要求涨8%的工资。 结论：厨师会要求涨工资的数量比管理会多。
支持：管理会8%的工资不会多于厨师会10%的工资。 A: The current salaries of the members of the Chefs’ Union are, on average, higher than the current salaries of the members of the Hotel Managers’ Union 前提支持
3. 25s High school students who feel that they are not succeeding in school often drop out before graduating and go to work. Last year, however, the city’s high school dropout rate was significantly lower than the previous year’s rate. This is encouraging evidence that the program instituted two years ago to improve the morale of high school students has begun to take effect to reduce dropouts. Which one of the following, if true about the last year, most seriously weakens the argument? 前提：学生没信心时，会自己辍学。数据显示，最近辍学比例下降了。 结论：政府提升学生moral的program起作用了。
削弱：最近失业率上升，学生辍学也找不到工做了。 A. There was a recession that caused a high level of unemployment in the city.他因涉入
4. 30s The television show Henry was not widely watched until it was scheduled for Tuesday evenings immediately after That’s Life, the most popular show on television. During the year after the move, Henry was consistently one of the ten most-watched shows on television. Since Henry’s recent move to Wednesday evenings, however, it has been watched by far fewer people. We must conclude that Henry was widely watched before the move to Wednesday evenings because it followed That’s Life and not because people especially liked it. Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument? 前提：A节目被安排到收视很高的B节目之后，收视率大大上升了。移开后又下降了。 结论：人们不是真的喜欢A节目，只是以为它在B节目之后。
加强：新安排的在B节目之后的C节目收视率大大上升了。 A. The show that now follows That’s Life on Tuesdays has double the number of viewers it had before be结论支持
AA: JJ Q11 “The Easy Credit Company would gain an advantage over competing credit card services if we were to donate a portion of the proceeds from the use of our cards to a well-known environmental organization in exchange for the use of its symbol or logo on our card. Since a recent poll shows that a large percentage of the public is concerned about environmental issues, this policy would attract new customers, increase use among existing customers, and enable us to charge interest rates that are higher than the lowest ones available.”
1. 有可能这个公司的用户和潜在用户不关心环保 2. Poll的数据可信么 3. 消费者不会把一个公司环保与否作为是否购买的唯一依据。其他方面看的更多。作者: superbat28 时间: 2011-9-3 17:23
两天没看逻辑，今天再刷OG，感觉果然大不如前。。检验下成果~作者: superbat28 时间: 2011-9-3 17:32
1. 36s Conclusion: We can achieve the goal if we adopt this plan Premise: We cannot increase revenues, so we need to cut down costs, and the proposed plan can help cut down costs.
FLAW: 答案的意思就是结论太唯一了呗？~支持答案！！！
2. 33s 我承认，这道题貌似以前咱们贴国T T Conclusion: The raise in A is greater than in B Premise: THe increase percent in A is greater than in B
Strengthen: The initial point is higher in A than in B
3. 30s Conclusion: The plan instituted 2 years ago has positive outcomes Premise: Dropout rate declined. And students usually drop out because they do not have positive morale
Weaken: Other possbility to explain why dropout rates declined
4. 46s Conclusion: People watch Henry because it followed That's Life, not because people like it. Premise: When it followed That's Life, many people watch Henry. But since it does not follow that program, audience declined
Strengthen: 答案是有因有果~吼吼，我想的是无因无果: When That's Life was not before Henry, Henry did not win so much audience~作者: UlysessHope 时间: 2011-9-3 23:21
逻辑菜鸟跟帖练习
37s 明年有a billion的亏损，没有可行的方法增加可用金额---------只有减少花费 if only: A if only B表达为B→A 推理缺陷：？
...s （= =） the Chef’s Union 每人工资增加10% the Hotel Managers’ Union每人工资增加8% --------the Chefs’ Union 平均工资增长数值 高于 the Hotel Managers’ Union 平均工资增长数值 加强：原本the Chefs’ Union的工资就比the Hotel Managers’ Union 高
39s drop out before graduating 的人会 go to work 去年dropout rate 显著低于前年 ------program instituted two years ago to improve the morale of high school students has begun to take effect to reduce dropouts. 削弱：不招聘没毕业的学生
1'12（第一遍没读懂） 电视节目Henry出现在 Tuesday evenings immediately after That’s Life, the most popular show on television.---- 许多人看电视节目Henry 电视节目Henry出现在 Wednesday evenings, fewer people观看它 -------------- Henry was widely watched before the move to Wednesday evenings because it followed That’s Life and not because people especially liked it. 加强：找个说明的的确是因为henry是因为出现在热播剧之后人们才观看它，而不是因为人们喜欢henry的例子作者: 大三准备留学 时间: 2012-4-6 12:26
1.明年我们的收入会下降，由于没有更多的基金支持，我们只有削减开支。。计划是我们要先提出能够削减开支的地方，我们能够面临困境仅仅在我们使用了这个计划时 flaw：不知道啊。。 2.一个涨10% 一个涨8% 所以第一个涨的比第二个多 加强：基数第一个至少和第二个一样 3.学生发现在学校不成功时往往会退学去工作，然而今年的退学率低于去年，这一定是因为两年前的一个项目，项目是为了提高学生的积极性。 削弱：工作难找了。。 4.H这个节目在移到一个很好的节目后就收视率很高，当它又移开时 收视率又下降很多 所以当时的收视率上升并非是这个节目很受欢迎的原因 加强：说它不受欢迎。。。作者: flonacui 时间: 2013-8-16 10:40
1. 1'05''
goal:to solve the problem one billion shortage only if adopting the plan
plan:to decrease expenditures.
flawed:
2.37s
P: c increased 10% salary increase
H increased 8% salary increase
C: the amount of raises C>H
strengthen: The current salary of each member is higher in C than H
3.35s
P The dropout rate was significantly lower than previous year's.
C It is the program that reduced the droupout rate.
weakenther reasons
答案 跟backgroud info里的信息联系在了一起 是由于recession-less vocation-decreased dropout
4.1'16''
P After H moved to Wednesday, there are far less people watching it.
C The growing popularity about H is because its air after a popular show, not because people fell in love with it.
strengtheneople even did not know this moving; The popularity about that's life did not change.
答案 新的一个在that's life播出的节目同样收视率大涨 举了一个例子正向的支持了选项
AA
proceeds 实收款项 收益收入
1> The poll
2> plan- intended effect if customers do not like, then waste of money
3> some other way to gain an advantage
4> cost-profit balance作者: Yvette19 时间: 2013-9-10 02:46
1. 45s
预算未来财年收入不景气。
没有基金来源，因此要解决问题，只能节约支出。不能开源只能节流了。
strengthen：另一档被挪到That's life之后的节目也是收视率激增 作者: Monica2020 时间: 2019-8-3 08:50
1.0:34；1:35
premise：there is no feasible way to increase the available funds, our only choice is to decrease expenditures.
conclusion: We will be able to solve the problem we face, therefore, only if we adopt this plan.
flaw: no other way/ no other possibility
2.0:30;1:20
premise: Chef’s Union has requested a 10 percent salary increase for each of its members, whereas the Hotel Managers’ Union has requested only an 8 percent salary increase for each of its members.
conclusion:the average dollar amount of the raises that the Chefs’ Union has requested for next year is greater than that of the raises requested by the Hotel Managers’ Union.
strengthen: the current level of average salary in the CU is no lower than that in MU
3.0:30; 1:15
premise: Last year the city’s high school dropout rate was significantly lower than the previous year’s rate. conlusion: the program to improve the morale of high school students has begun to take effect
weaken: the enrollemnt has increased significantly last year / other reasons to weaken
4.0:37;1:30
premise: Since Henry’s recent move to Wednesday evenings, however, it has been watched by far fewer people. conclusion: Henry was widely watched because it followed That’s Life and not because people especially liked it.
strengthen: moved the That's life to wednesday evenings and then find Henry is popular again
5.AA
1.民众倾向于保护环境不代表会愿意follow the program 或从这种途径去保护环境
2.就算吸引消费者不代表就会succeed competition, 成本方面
3.the poll
ther reasons
eople even did not know this moving; The popularity about that's life did not change.