请大家帮忙看看, 1. George Bernard Shaw wrote: “That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg is enough to make one despair of political humanity.” Shaw’s statement would best serve as an illustration in an argument criticizing which of the following?
Shaw’s statement would best serve as an illustration in an argument criticizing which of the following? A. Dentists who perform unnecessary dental work in order to earn a profit
B. Doctors who increase their profits by specializing only in diseases that affect a large percentage of the population
C. Grocers who raise the price of food in order to increase their profit margins
D. Oil companies that decrease the price of their oil in order to increase their market share E. Bakers and surgeons who earn a profit by supplying other people’s basic needs.
2. It is widely assumed that a museum is helped financially when a generous patron donates a potential exhibit. In truth, however, donated objects require storage space, which is not free, and routine conservation, which is rther expensive. Therefore, such gifts exacerbate rather than lighten the demands made on a museum’s financial resources. Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?
A. To keep patron s well disposed, a museum will find it advisable to put at least some donated objects on exhibit rather than merely in storage.
B. The people who are most likely to donate valuable objects to a museum are also the people who are most likely to make cash gifts to it.
C. A museum cannot save money by resorting to cheap storage under less than adequate conditions, because doing so would drive up the cost of conservation.
D. Patrons expect a museum to keep donated objects in its possession rather than to raise cash by selling them. E. Objects donated by a patron to a museum are often of such importance that the museum would be obliged to add them to its collection through purchase if necessary.
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