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作者: snowflower 时间: 2004-8-3 03:50
标题: GWD-6-21

Q21:

An overwhelming proportion of the most productive employees at SaleCo’s regional offices work not eight hours a day, five days a week, as do other SaleCo employees, but rather ten hours a day, four days a week, with Friday off. Noting this phenomenon, SaleCo’s president plans to increase overall productivity by keeping the offices closed on Fridays and having all employees work the same schedule—ten hours a day, four days a week.

Which of the following, if true, provides the most reason to doubt that the president’s plan, if implemented, will achieve its stated purpose?

Typically, a SaleCo employee’s least productive hours in the workplace are the early afternoon hours.

None of the employees who work four days a week had volunteered to work that schedule, but all were assigned to it by their supervisors.

Working ten hours a day has allowed the most productive employees to work two hours alone each day in their respective offices relatively undisturbed by fellow employees.

Employees at SaleCo are compensated not on the basis of how many hours a week they work but on the basis of how productive they are during the hours they are at work.

Those SaleCo employees who have a four-day workweek do not take any of their office work to do at home on Fridays.

why C is the correct answer?

作者: luoffice 时间: 2004-8-3 04:09

2 hour alone->undisturbed->high productivity

all workers work at same time->disturbed all the time->lower productivity

作者: rabbit 时间: 2004-10-5 10:32

以下是引用luoffice在2004-8-3 4:09:00的发言：

2 hour alone->undisturbed->high productivity

all workers work at same time->disturbed all the time->lower productivity

如此说来C是support而不是doubt了，

我选B。

请指正！

作者: ios 时间: 2004-10-5 11:00

another reason to explain the high productivity.

作者: rabbit 时间: 2004-10-5 22:50

以下是引用ios在2004-10-5 11:00:00的发言：

another reason to explain the high productivity.

对呀，那该选项是加强而不是削弱了。

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作者: rabbit 时间: 2004-10-6 07:36
UP，大家难道都选C吗?

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作者: sea-level 时间: 2004-10-6 21:07

i prefer C.

productive, special schedule-->special schedule-->all productive

hidden assumption: special schedule can apply to all the others.

作者: sea-level 时间: 2004-10-6 21:13

it seems B has nothing related with the logic links.

作者: sea-level 时间: 2004-10-6 21:29

作者: rabbit 时间: 2004-10-6 22:36
但题目问的是：

Which of the following, if true, provides the most reason to doubt that the president’s plan, if implemented, will achieve its stated purpose?

我认为他的意思是：以下哪一个选项如果正确的话，提供最好的理由怀疑president的计划，也就是怀疑如果执行该计划将达到它预期的目的。

如果下一位还认为B对的话，我也死心了，可能我大脑短路了。

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作者: bigdog1220 时间: 2004-10-8 13:06
I also chose B.

B states that those employees have high productivity because they are"most productive employees" (from 1st sentence), not because their workschedule "but all were assigned to it by their supervisors".

请牛牛指点!

作者: rings 时间: 2004-10-8 18:27

我也B,C似乎是加强,题目问的是削弱啊,NN指教

作者: bigdog1220 时间: 2004-10-9 01:00
up!

作者: bigdog1220 时间: 2004-10-11 04:16
顶!

作者: lawyer_1 时间: 2004-10-11 06:12

选C

C提出这些职工多产的原因是每天有2个小时工作没受同事干扰。如果PRESIDENT的计划实行，这个多产的原因（没受同事干扰）就消失，PRESIDENT实行计划的目的（提高效率）就受挫。所以WEAKEN。

B说那些多产的职工是被迫的，但事实是他们产量高，他们被迫也好，自愿也好，也改变不了这个现实，反正他们产量最高。所以对PRESIDENT的计划起不了WEAKEN作用。

作者: G_KEVIN 时间: 2004-10-11 17:17
赞同lawyer的观点，两者之间有本质的不同或者本质的相似，在由M推广到N的时候，如果M不具备，或者N具备而M无法具备某个条件的时候，往往构成削弱；

作者: leemike0928 时间: 2004-12-21 23:12
D,Who can tell me? D is worong?

作者: shihyenn 时间: 2005-4-1 10:41
标题: up, why D is wrong?

Up, I still don't know why D is wrong.

It seems that employee were compensated based on their productivity not on their working hour. So they won't be effected by any kind of schedule. Thus, the president's plan may not work.

Any one please help.

作者: mindfree 时间: 2005-4-1 11:11

B is not correct, even though it looks like. If we understand the reasoning, we will know that it does not matter whether they willing work that schedule or not, as the problem leaves you no logic reasoning to think that way. for example, if you forced to eat more, you still get fat even though you do not volunteer.

D is not correct either. D casts no doubt as to whether the same schedule will work to the company's favor by improving the productivity. I do not see the link between. Pls explain.

C is correct. It simply states that the high productivity is due to the fact that these already productive people can work undisturbed by co-workers. So one thing is that if everyone works the same schedule, people will be disturbed. Second, these people are already productive, as suggested by the problem.

作者: Maggiewjy 时间: 2005-4-29 11:11

b肯定不对，因为即使那些高效的员工是被强制实行该制度，但是他们的效率的确是提高的了。这样起不到削弱plan的作用啊～～～Plan－－使所有员工都实行该四天工作制能提高效率。 C中提出那些高效的员工之所以高效是因为他们每天除了和别人一样的8小时工作时间（这期间是要被打扰的）以外，还有两小时不被打扰的时间独自工作。因此效率才高。所以如果所有的人都按照四天工作制就和五天工作制一样，并且无法提高效率。。。

作者: Avantasia 时间: 2005-5-18 20:55

虽然答案只能是C, 但是心里面觉得这题出得够烂, C里面就是默认了前提, 没有同事打扰效率会增加, 这个....实在是太容易被weaken了, 万一是那种teamwork, 就是要大家一起来的效率才高的呢?!

其它几个选项必错, 当时想了半天这个C, 觉得这个它因ETS给的真烂!

作者: beautyup 时间: 2005-8-5 14:56

A：有可能加强（将friday的"懈怠工作段”取消了，取而代之的是其他的“高效工作段”)

B: 说强迫不强迫，和原文的推导没有关系。视为无关选项。

C：如前所述，正确。

D：8*5=10*4，而且原文也没说哪种方式的productivity高，所以无从判断。

D：无从比较

作者: 无路可退 时间: 2005-9-10 22:23

c不对吧。选项很清楚说“工作10个小时允许最有效率的雇员有两个小时单独不受打扰的工作时间。。”这加强了结论，说明该计划是可行的。

而题目问，哪个选项怀疑了计划的可行性。

我认为答案是d:员工的工作效率不是看每周的工作时间长短，而是每天的工作效率。（削弱了论证里面，每天工作10个小时以提高工作效率）

作者: zuzululu 时间: 2005-10-21 22:13

同意无路可退的解释

c实际上不是weaken结论而是加强了.说明了计划是可行的

但是d也有问题.d说不是看时间而是看效率.但这两个计划的效率是一样的(40小时/week).所以实行不实行10小时工作制其实不会对productivity产生影响.没有weaken

不知道选哪一个了

作者: 香香茶 时间: 2005-11-18 23:44

C，Working ten hours a day has allowed the most productive employees to work two hours alone each day in their respective offices relatively undisturbed by fellow employees.

楼上的同学们，请注意此高亮部分。这是部分员工以前为何高效的原因—因为额外单独两个小时的工作不受打扰，在各自的办公室独立办公。而现在，老板说公司一律实行这种规章制度，那么独立的工作环境将不再保障。直接削弱原因。

作者: hotlinda 时间: 2005-11-29 10:59

同意香香茶的解释，“has allowed”这个动词时态很重要，表明working ten hours是指过去the most productive employees工作的那10个小时，而不是company president要改的制度中所说的10个小时。

因为如果是后者的话，就应该是"Working ten hours a day will allowed the most productive employees to work two hours alone each day in their respective offices relatively undisturbed by fellow employees.”，选项C改成这样才是对president的proposal起到了加强作用，“has allow"是削弱。

作者: hotlinda 时间: 2005-11-29 11:06

做题要细心，选项中的语气词，修饰词，还有时态，都可以帮助我们排除干扰项，坚定正确答案。

作者: Tono 时间: 2005-12-25 18:45
C也有问题,题中说的是regional office,而president推广到整个公司.肯定不会locate在一起的.而且c成立还需要一个assumption是undisturbed->higher productivity

作者: Tono 时间: 2005-12-25 18:47

我觉得没有可以选的了

作者: impersom 时间: 2006-10-7 00:15

以下是引用lawyer_1在2004-10-11 6:12:00的发言：

选C

B是否可以理解为不是4天工作制导致产量高，而是被迫的员工正好效率高。因此改为4天工作制不会达到目的，可以削弱。

作者: 老愚 时间: 2006-11-28 14:08

对d有一些疑问，我觉得d也是能引起doubt的，只不过doubt的程度不如c，不知道nn们怎么看？因为d说职工们的薪水只与productive有关，与工作时间无关，所以改变工作时间不能对职工有吸引力，因此也不能增加productive。

不知道这样想对不对，有点绕进去了，各位给盏明灯啊？

作者: 龙飞凤舞 时间: 2007-12-13 06:31

以下是引用luoffice在2004-8-3 4:09:00的发言：

2 hour alone->undisturbed->high productivity

all workers work at same time->disturbed all the time->lower productivity

有这个就够了

作者: godwincc 时间: 2007-12-21 08:58
真是精品！

作者: lulu_odin 时间: 2008-3-23 10:21

没搞明白

作者: zhengjingzhe 时间: 2009-7-22 20:59
up

作者: huangyikai 时间: 2009-7-31 22:04
cc

作者: huangyikai 时间: 2009-7-31 22:06
cc

作者: 忘记了 时间: 2009-9-6 20:56

以下是引用lawyer_1在2004/10/11 6:12:00的发言：

选C

不好意思，胆敢冒犯NN了。但是C选项没有说那些生产率高的员工是因为两个小时不受干扰工作所以生产率高啊？充其量只是说大部分的效率高的员工都有下班后加班2个小时不受打扰工作的经历，是不是我英文理解有误？

作者: jinqijia 时间: 2009-9-7 17:10
这题C肯定是支持。同意lz说法，这样的确就是boss应该选择这种工作时间达到他压榨雇员的目的。相比下，B应该是正确答案。

作者: 蔬菜小丸子 时间: 2009-9-8 18:16

SaleCo’s president plans to increase overall productivity by keeping the offices closed on Fridays and having all employees work the same schedule—ten hours a day, four days a week.

c. Working ten hours a day has allowed the most productive employees to work two hours alone each day in their respective offices relatively undisturbed by fellow employees.

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