急救：feifei-26

26. Barnes: The two newest employees at this company have salaries that are too high for the simple tasks normally assigned to new employees and duties that are too complex for inexperienced workers. Hence, the salaries and the complexity of the duties of these two newest employees should be reduced.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which Barnes’s argument depends?

A.        The duties of the two newest employees are not less complex than any others in the company.

B.        It is because of the complex duties assigned that the two newest employees are being paid more than is usually paid to newly hired employees.

C.        The two newest employees are not experienced at their occupations.

D.       Barnes was not hired at a higher-than-average starting salary.

E.        The salaries of the two newest are no higher than the salaries that other companies pay for workers with a similar level of experience.

答案C，知道为什么对

我的问题是B为什么不对？产生题干中的情况不就是因为任务复杂要求的工资高么？

feifei解释说：B: 这似乎在为两个新雇员拿高工资找理由，所以不能支持结论。

是不是这样的，结论是反对复杂工作高工资；而B的解释恰恰支持了这个结论反对的论断？

是否解释的选项不可以作为assumption？

谢谢

Barnes’s argument 是the salaries...should be reduced.

B是在解释为什么salary高，可能是正确的解释也可能是错误的。但不论解释正确与否，都和argument没有什么关系啊。

我认为应该从两方面都去考虑，B 只考虑了工资高没有考虑工作的复杂。C 更全面一些