【每日逻辑链练习贴】【逻辑5-18】【OG10】

fox0923 · 发表于 2011-11-14 06:12:23

不好意思啊~我差点忘记了更新CR练习，赶紧补上~11月党的大家们加油啊~hope好像要考试了吧，同样加油！
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Questions 119 – 120 are based on the following.

According to the Tristate Transportation Authority, making certain improvements to the main commuter rail line would increase ridership dramatically. The authority plans to finance these improvements over the course of five years by raising automobile tolls on the two high-way bridges along the route the rail line serves. Although the proposed improvements are indeed needed, the authority’s plan for securing the necessary funds should be rejected because it would unfairly force drivers to absorb the entire cost of something from which they receive no benefit.

119. Which of the following, if true, would cast the most doubt on the effectiveness of the authority’s plan to
finance the proposed improvements by increasing bridge tolls?
(A) Before the authority increases tolls on any of the area bridges, it is required by law to hold public hearings at which objections to the proposed increase can be raised.
(B) Whenever bridge tolls are increased, the authority must pay a private contractor to adjust the automated
toll-collecting machines.
(C) Between the time a proposed toll increase is announced and the time the increase is actually put into effect, many commuters buy more tokens than usual to postpone the effects of the increase.
(D) When tolls were last increased on the two bridges in question, almost 20 percent of the regular commuter traffic switched to a slightly longer alternative route that has since been improved.
(E) The chairman of the authority is a member of the Tristate Automobile Club that has registered strong
opposition to the proposed toll increase.

120. Which of the following, if true, would provide the authority with the strongest counter to the objection that its plan is unfair?

(A) Even with the proposed toll increase, the average bridge toll in the tristate region would remain less than the tolls charged in neighboring states.
(B) Any attempt to finance the improvements by raising rail fares would result in a decrease in ridership and so would be self-defeating.
(C) Automobile commuters benefit from well-maintained bridges, and in the tristate region bridge maintenance is funded out of general income tax revenues to which both automobile and rail commuters contribute.
(D) The roads along the route served by the rail line are highly congested and drivers benefit when commuters are diverted from congested roadways to mass transit.
(E) The only alternative way of funding the proposed improvements now being considered is through a regional income tax surcharge, which would affect automobile commuters and rail commuters alike.

121. Manufacturers sometimes discount the price of a product to retailers for a promotion period when the
product is advertised to consumers. Such promotion often result in a dramatic increase in amount of product sold by the manufacturers to retailers. Nevertheless, the manufacturers could often make more profit by not holding the promotions.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the claim above about the manufacturers’ profit?

(A) The amount of discount generally offered by manufacturers to retailers is carefully calculated to represent the minimum needed to draw consumers’ attention to the product.
(B) For many consumer products the period of advertising discounted prices to consumers is about a week, not sufficiently long for consumers to become used to the sale price.
(C) For products that are not newly introduced, the purpose of such promotions is to keep the products in the minds of consumers and to attract consumers who are currently using competing products.
(D) During such a promotion retailers tend to accumulate in their warehouses inventory bought at discount; they then sell much of it later at their regular price.
(E) If a manufacturer fails to offer such promotions but its competitor offers them, that competitor will tend to attract consumers away from the manufacturer’s product.

122. When people evade income taxes by not declaring taxable income, a vicious cycle results. Tax evasion
forces lawmakers to raise income tax rates, which causes the tax burden on nonevading taxpayers to become heavier. This, in turn, encourages even more taxpayers to evade income taxes by hiding taxable income.

The vicious cycle described above could not result unless which of the following were true?

(A) An increase in tax rates tends to function as an incentive for taxpayers to try to increase their pretax
incomes.
(B) Some methods for detecting tax evaders, and thus recovering some tax revenue lost through evasion, bring in more than they cost, but their success rate varies from years to year.
(C) When lawmakers establish income tax rates in order to generate a certain level of revenue, they do not allow adequately for revenue that will be lost through evasion.
(D) No one who routinely hides some taxable income can be induced by a lowering of tax rates to stop hiding such income unless fines for evaders are raised at the same time.
(E) Taxpayers do not differ from each other with respect to the rate of taxation that will cause them to evade taxes.

124. The local board of education found that, because the current physics curriculum has little direct relevance to today’s world, physics classes attracted few high school students. So to attract students to physics classes, the board proposed a curriculum that emphasizes principles of physics involved in producing and analyzing visual images.

Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest reason to expect that the proposed curriculum will be
successful in attracting students?

(A) Several of the fundamental principles of physics are involved in producing and analyzing visual images.
(B) Knowledge of physics is becoming increasingly important in understanding the technology used in today’s world.
(C) Equipment that a large producer of photographic equipment has donated to the high school could be used in the proposed curriculum.
(D) The number of students interested in physics today is much lower than the number of students interested in physics 50 years ago.
(E) In today’s world the production and analysis of visual images is of major importance in communications,
business, and recreation.

fox0923 · 发表于 2011-11-14 06:17:14

119.
Increasing bridge tolls might not increase revenues if such increases prompt a significant percentage of regular bridge users to switch to alternative routes. Choice D says that a previous increase prompted such switches. Choice D, by establishing a strong precedent for commuters’ responding to higher tolls by avoiding them altogether, raises doubts about the plan’s effectiveness and is thus the best answer.
Choices A and E suggest that the plan might face opposition but not that it will be defeated not that the
anticipated revenue will not be generated. Therefore neither A nor E is correct. Weighed against five years’
projected revenues, the considerations raised in choices B and C would not have a significant impact. Thus
neither B nor C is correct.

120.
The plan is called unfair because it forces drivers to pay for something from which they receive no benefit.
Choice D, however, claims that drivers would receive a benefit: a decrease in traffic congestion on the roads along the rail line. Choice D thereby strongly counters the charge of unfairness and is thus the best answer. The charge of unfairness is not countered by indicating that the amounts involved are relatively low (choice A), or that a seemingly fair funding alternative is unworkable (choice B). Income tax funding as described in choices C and E might be viewed as less unfair than the proposed funding from bridge tolls, but it gives no reason for regarding the bridge tolls as anything but unfair.

121.
Choice D indicates that during promotions retailers buy much greater quantities of products at discounted prices than they in turn sell to consumers during those promotions. There is, then, much merchandise that retailers sell at their regular price on which the manufacturers, however, do not realize normal profits. Since this loss of normal profits might outweigh the benefits of attracting new consumers during the promotion period, the manufacturers might be better off not holding the promotions. Choice D is, therefore, the best answer.
Attracting consumers’ attention (choice A), noninterference with sales at regular, non-promotional prices (choice B), and attracting and holding customers (choices C and E) are all features of promotions compatible with manufacturers making high profits, so none of these choice is correct.

122.
For tax evasion to force a raise in income tax rates it must be true that tax evasion causes actual tax revenues to fall short of revenue needs. This is the situation that choice C describes; choice C is therefore the best answer.
None of the other choices states a requirement for the vicious cycle to result. Increasing in pretax incomes
(income A) would tend to work against perpetuation of the cycle. Success at catching tax evaders (choice B)
should likewise have an inhibiting effect. Choice D describes how problems in breaking existing habits of tax evasion might be overcome. Choice E essentially denies that raising the tax rate in response to some tax evasion could cause additional tax-payers to evade taxes.

124.
For the proposed curriculum change to attract students to physics classes, producing and analyzing visual
images must have direct relevance to today’s world. Choice E provides have direct relevance to today’s world. Choice E provides evidence that this is so, and thus is the best answer. Choices A and C mention things relevant to the new curriculum: that it would indeed teach physics and that equipment facilitating its implementation is available. Choice B underscores how desirable it would be for the new curriculum to succeed, and choice D establishes that there is past precedent that more students can be attracted to physics. Not one of choices A, B, C, or D, however, indicates why the new curriculum would be thought to be attractive to students, so none of them is correct.

balapupu · 发表于 2011-11-14 17:18:24

好凄凉，无人问津啊。。。。我顶一个。。。这两天在休息，等我后天补起、··

daisyの小夢想 · 发表于 2011-11-14 20:06:45

糊糊太爱妳了。呼呼，我们CR练习先休整几天，再迎来新的系列~~ Q上聊。

fox0923 · 发表于 2011-11-15 04:01:19

糊糊太爱妳了。呼呼，我们CR练习先休整几天，再迎来新的系列~~ Q上聊。

-- by 会员 daisyの小夢想 (2011/11/14 20:06:45)

嘻嘻，什么时候Q聊给我留言呢，我有时候不在上面要就是隐身的，可能不能马上受到消息的。

ugly5552000 · 发表于 2011-11-15 14:30:21

最后两题题目是重复的

ugly5552000 · 发表于 2011-11-15 22:21:19

119.Background: the local authority plans to increase the automobile tolls on bridges, and the funds will be used to improve the main commuter rail line. However, the plan is rejected by the drivers who receive no benefit from the improvements.
Premise:1. If the commute drivers switch to another road, the expected revenue of the plan will be insufficient, and the plan is ineffective.
2. if the bridge-maintain fees are supported by both drivers and rail commuters, the outcome will be much better.

121.Background: when the product is advertised to consumers, manufacturers often give discounts to retailers, this strategy often triggers a evident increase in the sales volume. However, the manufacturers could make more profit when the promotions stop.
Premise: obviously, the sales volume still increase when the manufacturers stop the promotion.

122.Background: it is a vicious cycle that people evade income taxes------lawmakers raise income tax rates------more taxpayers evade income taxes

fox0923 · 发表于 2011-11-15 22:35:21

最后两题题目是重复的

-- by 会员 ugly5552000 (2011/11/15 14:30:21)

不好意思~很奇怪为什么OG10的PDF版本里面122，123是重题然后答案不一样。
不过我已经改好了，谢谢ugly5552000同学的提醒！

chensong211 · 发表于 2011-11-15 23:05:48

弱弱的问一下每天逻辑讨论帖都是什么时候出？还有逻辑小分队是怎么参与和准备？我想参与一下。问题有点白痴，希望楼主别被雷到。

daisyの小夢想 · 发表于 2011-11-15 23:58:08

弱弱的问一下每天逻辑讨论帖都是什么时候出？还有逻辑小分队是怎么参与和准备？我想参与一下。问题有点白痴，希望楼主别被雷到。

-- by 会员 chensong211 (2011/11/15 23:05:48)

加入方法敬请期待全新逻辑帖子。无比欢迎加入CR小分队噢。这几天有空先跟着旧帖做嘿嘿。

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