大全-c-11/大全-d-7

test D

7.     The postal service is badly mismanaged. Forty years ago, first-class letter delivery cost only three cents. Since then, the price has increased nearly tenfold, with an actual decrease in the speed and reliability of service.

Each of the following statements, if true, would tend to weaken the argument above EXCEPT:

(A) The volume of mail handled by the postal service has increased dramatically over the last forty years.

(B) Unprecedented increases in the cost of fuel for trucks and planes have put severe upward pressures on postal delivery costs.

(C) Private delivery services usually charge more than does the postal service for comparable delivery charges.

(D) The average delivery time for a first-class letter four decades ago was actually slightly longer than it is today.（E）

(E) The average level of consumer prices overall has increased more than 300 percent over the last forty years.

B怎样起到了Weaken的作用？

TESTC--11

From time to time, the press indulges in outbursts of indignation over the use of false or misleading information by the U.S. government in support of its policies and programs. No one endorses needless deception. But consider this historical analogy. It is known that Christopher Columbus, on his first voyage to the New World, deliberately falsified the log to show a shorter sailing distance for each day out than the ships had actually traveled. In this way, Columbus was able to convince his skeptical sailors that they had not sailed past the point at which they expected to find the shores of India. Without this deception, Columbus’s sailors might well have mutinied, and the New World might never have been discovered.

11.   Which of the following is the main weakness of the historical analogy drawn in the passage above?

(A) The sailors in Columbus’s crew never knew that they had been deceived, while government deception is generally uncovered by the press.

(B) A ship’s log is a record intended mainly for use by the captain, while press reports are generally disseminated for use by the public at large.

(C) The members of a ship’s crew are selected by the captain of the ship, while those who work in the press are self-selected.

(D) The crew of a ship is responsible for the success of a voyage, while the press is not responsible for the use others make of the factual information it publishes.（E）

(E) In a democracy, the people are expected to participate in the nation’s political decision making, while the members of a ship’s crew are expected simply to obey the orders of the captain.

7. 我认为B用它因解释了为什么邮递费用提高了，那是因为成本高了。所以削弱。

11. 这道题你的疑问是什么呢？原文用一个类比来政府的欺骗手段合理。那这个观点的关键就是这个类比合不合理。所以只要答案能驳斥到类比的合理性就行了。

7.我打错了，要问的是C选项。帮忙再解答一次。

11.A 选项也指出了类比的不合理呀？

7. 可以参考这个http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=24&ID=51994

11. 仔细读读可以感觉到A的weakness对原文的影响很弱。A仅仅在被欺骗人群进行比较，没有指出这些人群能对这种欺骗性的影响。原文是想证明欺骗的合理性，然而被骗人群知不知道他们被骗对欺骗合理性造不成任何影响。

再来看E，因为船员仅仅需要服从命令，所以这种欺骗有其合理性。而人民需要参与政治，政府的欺骗直接影响到人们的政治参与性，所以这种欺骗不合理。

不知道这样说明不明白，请指教！