GWD-28-Q32

A prominent investor who holds a large stake in the Burton Tool Company has recently claimed

that the company is mismanaged, citing as evidence the company’s failure to slow production in

response to a recent rise in its inventory of finished products. It is doubtful whether an investor’s

sniping at management can ever be anything other than counterproductive, but in this case it is

clearly not justified.  It is true that an increased inventory of finished products often indicates that

production is outstripping
                    demand, but in Burton’s case it indicates no such thing. Rather, the

increase in inventory is entirely attributable to products that have already been assigned to orders

received from customers.

In the argument given, the two boldfaced portions play which of the following roles?

A: The first states the position that the argument as a whole opposes; the second provides evidence to undermine the support for the position being opposed.

B: The first states the position that the argument as a whole opposes; the second is evidence that has been used to support the position being opposed.

C: The first states the position that the argument as a whole opposes; the second states the conclusion of the argument as a whole.

D: The first is evidence that has been used to support a position that the argument as a whole opposes; the second provides information to undermine the force of that evidence.

E: The first is evidence that has been used to support a position that the argument as a whole opposes; the second states the conclusion of the argument as a whole.

答案：C     

这题很容易，我要问的是，划红线部分是什么意思，想表达什么样的观点？

请NN指点！谢先！

一个投资人对公司管理的指责（不利的言词）是不是适得其反还值得怀疑（即目前还不能下结论），但是在本案例中，这个投资人的指责是没有道理的。

前几天看牛牛说,做黑体字不需要读清楚句意思,否则一道题要花三分钟以上,这是ETS绝对不允许的,

只需把握结构,读出转折,因果关系