PREP 中的一题

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Leaders of a miners' union on strike against Coalco are contemplating additional measures to pressure the company to accept the union's contract proposal.  The union leaders are considering as their principal new tactic a consumer boycott against Gasco gas stations, which are owned by Energy Incorporated, the same corporation that owns Coalco.

The answer to which of the following questions is LEAST directly revelant to the union leaders' consideration of whether attempting a boycott of Gasco will lead to acceptance of their contract proposal?

(A) Would revenue losses by Gasco seriously affect Energy Incorporated?

(B) Can current Gasco customers easily obtain gasoline elsewhere?

(C) Have other miners' unions won contracts similar to the one proposed by this union?

(D) Have other unions that have employed a similar tactic achieved their goals with it?

(E) Do other corporations that own coal companies also own gas stations?

答案是E   题意不是很明白

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Gasco和Coalco同是Energy Incorporated的子公司。矿工联盟要迫使Coalco接受他们的条件，决定对另外一家子公司，Gasco，进行贸易抵制，就是不买Gasco的汽油。对后者的贸易抵制要产生效果，才能对前者产生威胁作用。

E的意思是，其他集团是否同时拥有煤炭公司和石油公司，这个和结论没有关系。

这个题目和交易相关。为了达到目的，有些因素要考虑，有些因素不相干的，肯定不用去分析啦。

像这个，某工会要发动和利用会员来促成雇主答应他们的条件，工会自身，工会会员，兄弟工会（服务同一个雇主的），雇主，雇主的关联企业都是直接分析对象，而服务其他雇主的兄弟工会和其他类似企业是间接考虑对象。

感觉上，逻辑题并非“完全不要考虑段落以外”“不能利用常识”，似乎是我们社会的常识和西方社会的有些不同？