【求助】GWD11套16题

In response to mounting public concern, an airplanemanufacturers implement a program with well-publicized goal of reducing by halfthe total yearly amount of hazardous waste generated by its passenger-jetdivision. When the program began in 1994, the division’s hazardous waste was 90pounds per production worker, last year it was 40 pounds per production worker.Clearly, therefore, charges that the manufacturer’s program has not met itsgoal are false.

Whichof the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

A.    theamount of nonhazardous waste generated each year by the passenger-jet divisionhas not increased significantly since 1984

B.    atleast as many passenger jets were produced by the division last year as hadbeen produced in 1994

C.    since1994, other divisions in the company have achieved reductions in hazardouswaste output that are at least equal to that achieved in the passenger-jetdivision.

D.    Theaverage number of weekly hours per production worker in the passenger-jetdivision was not significantly greater last year than it was in 1994.

E.     Thenumber of production workers assigned to the passenger-jet division was notsignificantly less in 1994 than it was last year.