[face=Georgia]3. The United States has never been a great international trader. It found most of its raw materials and customers for finished products within its own borders. The terrible consequences of this situation have become apparent, as this country now owes the largest foreign debt in the world and is a playground for wealthy foreign investors. The moral is clear: a country can no more live without foreign trade than a dog can live by eating its own tail.
In order to advance her point of view, the author does each of the following EXCEPT
(A) draw on an analogy
(B) appeal to historical fact
(C) identify a cause and an effect
(D) suggest a cause of the current economic situation
(E) question the ethical basis of an economic situation
这个题目的答案是E,但是B:appeal to historical fact 表现在原文什么地方?
5. A government agency publishes ratings of airlines, ranking highest the airlines that have the smallest proportion of late flights. The agency’s purpose is to establish an objective measure of the relative efficiency of different airlines’ personnel in meeting published flight schedules.
Which one of the following, if true, would tend to invalidate use of the ratings for the agency’s purpose?
(A) Travelers sometimes have no choice of airlines for a given trip at a given time.
(B) Flights are often made late by bad weather conditions that affect some airlines more that others.
(C) The flight schedules of all airlines allow extra time for flights that go into or out of very busy airports.
(D) Airline personnel are aware that the government agency is monitoring all airline flights for lateness.
(E) Flights are defined as “late” only if they arrive more that fifteen minutes past their scheduled arrival time, and a record is made of how much alter than fifteen minutes they are.
这个题目我在A/B之间犹豫了很久．答案是B,为什么A不对？原文的最后一句话应该如何理解呢？
12. “Though they soon will, patients should not have a legal right to see their medical records. As a doctor, I see two reasons for this. First, giving them access will be time-wasting because it will significantly reduce the amount of time that medical staff can spend on more important duties, by forcing them to retrieve and return files. Second, if my experience is anything to go by, no patients are going to ask for access to their records anyway.”
Which one of the following, if true, establishes that the doctor’s second reason does not cancel out the first?
(A) The new law will require that doctors, when seeing a patient in their office, must be ready to produce the patient’s records immediately, not just ready to retrieve them.
(B) The task of retrieving and returning files would fall to the lowest-paid member of a doctor’s office staff.
(C) Any patients who asked to see their medical records would also insist on having details they did not understand explained to them.
(D) The new law does not rule out that doctors may charge patients for extra expenses incurred specifically in order to comply with the new law.
(E) Some doctors have all allowing their patients access to their medical records, but those doctors’ patients took no advantage of this policy.
1. "It found most of its raw materials and customers for finished products within its own borders." You can telll this is historical fact as he says in the next sentence "...now owes the largest foreign debt in the world and is...."
2. A is irrelevant and out of scope. If in the passage the conclusion is that this rating will help passengers to choose their flights, A will be relevant. But here, the whole purpose of the rating is to evaluate the efficiency of airlines, and has nothing to do with passengers.
(1) In my perspective, "The United States has never been a great international trader" identify the historical facts, from past to present.
(2) 原文：government agency制定rating, highest rating表示airline有smallest proporation of飞机晚点。the translation of last sentence, I try to translate it as concise and correct as I can. agency的目的是建立一个相对有效的客观标准来度量不同机组在执行公布飞行时间表方面的准确性。infrim an assumption that is the peronnel that make the flights late, and B suggest an another excuse, which is the bad weather that affects more on some airlines than on other airlines.
(3) two critical phrases impede the understandingof the question.
cancel out = offset, to match in force or effect. for example: His irritability cancelled out his natural kindness, Osbert Sitwell, MW dictionary.
go by=pass, MW dictionary, It will make life easier if we think it as make an appointment.
另：how to tranlsate this sentence: The moral is clear: a country can no more live without foreign trade than a dog can live by eating its own tail. 一个国家不能再没有外贸就像一条狗靠吃他自己的尾巴过活一样。怎么这么别扭，是不是在表达一种“杀鸡取卵”的概念。请指教。
本人发表以下自己的意见： 1 a country can no more live without foreign trade than a dog can live by eating its own tail. 翻译：一个国家不能离开对外贸易过活，就像狗不能只吃自己的尾巴（而不对外觅食）而过活一样。 2 没有什么意见，各位XDJM已经表达不错了。 3 答案是C吗？Second, if my experience is anything to go by, no patients are going to ask for access to their records anyway. 翻译：第二，如果我的（病历）经验是随便可懂的，也就没有病人来要病历记录了。（意思是：病历经验不是所有人都懂的，需要花时间来向病人解释，也就浪费了给重病人看病的时间了）所以本人认为答案是C 见笑！
12。“Second, if my experience is anything to go by, no patients are going to ask for access to their records anyway.” 我理解为：意译：第二，就我的经验而言，没有病人要求看他们的病历。(也就是说，理由二：根本没有病人要看病例，所以也就没有必要花时间去retrieve 病历)。所以答案是A，大意说：法律规定，医生在为病人看病时，就必须记录病历。 也就是说不管病人看不看，医生都必须及时记录病历。
If the new law requires doctors to produceimmediately (立刻提供) medical records, then the doctor's staff will haveto prepare the records prior to the patient's visit, although pastexperience of the doctor indicates that it's unlikely a patientwill actually ask for the records.
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