天山-7-17

Q17:

As a large corporation in a small country, Hachnut wants its managers to have international experience, so each year it sponsors management education abroad for its management trainees.  Hachnut has found, however, that the attrition rate of graduates from this program is very high, with many of them leaving Hachnut to join competing firms soon after completing the program.  Hachnut does use performance

during the program as a criterion in deciding among candidates for management positions, but both this function and the goal of providing international experience could be achieved in other ways.  Therefore, if the attrition problem cannot be successfully

addressed, Hachnut should discontinue the sponsorship program.

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

A.  The first describes a practice that the argument seeks to justify; the second states a judgment that is used in support of a justification for that practice.

B.   The first describes a practice that the argume nt seeks to explain; the second presents part of the argument’s explanation of that practice.

C.   The first introduces a practice that the argument seeks to evaluate; the second provides grounds for holding that the practice cannot achieve its objective.

D.  The first introduces a policy that the argument seeks to evaluate; the second provides grounds for holding that the policy is not needed.

E.   The first introduces a consideration supporting a policy that the argument seeks to evaluate; the second provides evidence for concluding that the policy should be abandoned.

Suggested answer is D.

I prefer C.    comments please.

C. 后半句说不能实现其目标

D. 后半句说该举措根本不需要，这个有点过分吧。

你说人家不好就算了，所人家根本就没这个必要还是很过分的。

说不定人家把这个举措修改一下条款，就没人跳槽了呢。

这道题我支持C. 第一句是实际发生的事情,是一个practice,而不是一个policy. 且其中的is not needed太武断了.

再注意C中用的是objective, 不是goal.这个objective还包括function:即Hachnut要根据项目中的performance来选人, 现在人都跑了,所以该项目的这个function没有实现.即the practice cannot achieve its objective

open to discussion.

我看了看C與D,,還是C好一點..因為他倒底說出了真正整個短文要表達的,,

但偵結在practice,,我查了字典,,發現practice可做慣例解

a matter of common practice 尋常的事

所以第一句因為H希望經理可以熟悉國際事務,,所以算是有一個慣例就是送去受訓...

第二句表達了無法達到H原本想達成的目的,,

不知道這樣解釋合理不合理??

discuss

I support C.

I think H's policy is that its managers should have international experience. Therefore, sponsoring management education aboard for management trainees is the practice conducted by Hachnut.

However, I prefer not needed in D's second half to C's second half, since if the attrition problem cannot be successfully addressed, the practice is not needed.

我的理解是， 因为h公司的objective是“wants its managers to have international experience”，只是由于培训以后那些经理要跳槽，但是它确实是achieve the objective的，也就是'"wants its managers to have international experience“了的。