10. Traffic safety experts predict that the installation of newly designed air bags in all cars in the United States would reduce the average number of fatalities per traffic accident by 30 percent. In order to save lives, the Department of Transportation (DOT) is considering requiring automobile manufacturers to install air bags of this design in all cars produced after 1998. Which of the following, if true, represents the strongest challenge to the DOT’s proposal? 答案是A...完全不理解... (A) Air bags of the new design are more given to being inadvertently triggered, an occurrence that can sometimes result in fatal traffic accidents. (B) The DOT is planning to require automobile manufacturers to produce these air bags according to very strict specifications. (C) After installing air bags in new cars, automobile manufacturers will experience an increase in sales. (D) The proposed air bag installation program will adversely affect the resale of cars manufactured prior to 1998. (E) As production costs increase, the profits of many domestic automobile dealers show a marked decrease. 18. Critics of sales seminars run by outside consultants point out that since 1987, revenues of vacuum cleaner companies whose employees attended consultant-led seminars were lower than revenues of vacuum cleaner companies whose employees did not attend such seminars. The critics charge that for vacuum cleaner companies, the sales seminars are ill conceived and a waste of money. Which of the following, if true, is the most effective challenge to the critics of sales seminars? (A) Those vacuum cleaner companies whose sales were highest prior to 1987 are the only companies that did not send employees to the seminars.这个不是challenge啊..是support啊..晕.. (B) Vacuum cleaner companies that have sent employees to sales seminars since 1987 experienced a greater drop in sales than they had prior to 1987. (C) The cost of vacuum cleaner sales seminars run by outside consultants has risen dramatically since 1987. (D) The poor design of vacuum cleaner sales seminars is not the only reason for their ineffectiveness. (E) Since 1987, sales of vacuum cleaners have risen twenty percent.
20. A light bulb company produces 2,000 light bulbs per week. The manager wants to ensure that standards of quality remain constant from week to week. The manager, therefore, claims that out of 2,000 light bulbs produced per week, 500 light bulbs are rejected. Of the following, the best criticism of the manager’s plan is that the plan assumes that (A) light bulb manufacturers cannot accept all light bulbs that produced (B) the overall quality of the light bulbs would not be improved if the total number of light bulbs produced were reduced (C) each light bulb that is reviewed is worthy of being reviewed (D) it is difficult to judge the quality of a light bulb (E) the 1,500 light bulbs that are accepted will be of the same quality from week to week C的意思不理解啊....每2000里500被剔除的话,这2000要都是好的,这500不就浪费掉的...这2000都烂,剩下的1500不也很烂? |