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先谢谢各位了！1。 eliminate the category of sales clerks from its force of employees. 请问这句话怎么翻译？什么意思不明白。




2. But this is an idle boast, immune to any evaluation, for any inadequate weather forecast would obviously be blamed on imperfections in the model. 请问怎么翻译？




3. Questions 19-20 are based on the following.
Surveys show that every year only 10 percent of cigarettesmokers switch brands. Yet the manufacturers have been spending an amount equalto 10 percent of their gross receipts on cigarette promotion in magazines. Itfollows from these figures that inducing cigarette smokers to switch brands didnot pay, and that cigarette companies would have been no worse off economicallyif they had dropped their advertising.
19.   Of thefollowing, the best criticism of the conclusion that inducing cigarette smokersto switch brands did not pay is that the conclusion is based on
(A) computing advertising costsas a percentage of gross receipts, not of overall costs
(B) past patterns of smoking andmay not carry over to the future
(C) the assumption that eachsmoker is loyal to a single brand of cigarettes at any one time
(D) the assumption that eachmanufacturer produces only one brand of cigarettes（E）
(E) figures for the cigaretteindustry as a whole and may not hold for a particular company
20.   Which of thefollowing, if true, most seriously weakens the conclusion that cigarettecompanies could have dropped advertising without suffering economically?
(A) Cigarette advertisementsprovide a major proportion of total advertising revenue for numerous magazines.
(B) Cigarette promotion servesto attract first-time smokers to replace those people who have stopped smoking.
(C) There exists no researchconclusively demonstrating that increases in cigarette advertising are relatedto increases in smoking.
(D) Advertising is so firmlyestablished as a major business activity of cigarette manufacturers that theywould be unlikely to drop it.（B）
(E) Brand loyalty is typicallynot very strong among those who smoke inexpensive cigarettes.
答案是E和B。