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菜鸟，第一次做OG一部分的题，有些题不是太理解，恳请各位指教~
Thanks!
24. The Plexis Corporation, a leading computer chip manufacturer, is currently developing a new chip, which is faster and more effi cient than any computer chip currently in use. The new chip will be released for sale in twelve months. Plexis’ market research has shown that initial sales of the new chip would be maximized by starting to advertise it now, but the company has decided to wait another six months before doing so. Which of the following, if true, provides the Plexis Corporation with the best reason for postponing advertising
its new chip?
(A) Some computer users are reluctant to purchase new computer products when they are fi rst released.
(B) The cost of an advertising campaign capable of maximizing initial sales of the new chip would be no
greater than campaigns previously undertaken by Plexis.
(C) Advertising the new chip now will signifi cantly decrease sales of Plexis’ current line of computer chips.
(D) Plexis’ major rivals in the computer chip manufacturing business are developing a chip with capabilities
that are comparable to those of Plexis’ new chip.
(E) Taking full advantage of the capacities of the new chip will require substantial adjustments in other
segments of the computer industry.
答案是C。不明白为何不是E。
C选项：减少了现有的产品销售收入，并不一定就总销售收入会减少啊，如果总收入（或说总利润）仍得到增长呢
E选项：不就正是由于需要行业的调整，所以才推迟新chip的广告吗？
35. Last year the rate of inflation was 1.2 percent, but for the current year it has been 4 percent. We can conclude that inflation is on an upward trend and the rate will be still higher next year.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the conclusion above?
(A) The inflation figures were computed on the basis of a representative sample of economic data rather than
all of the available data.
(B) Last year a dip in oil prices brought inflation temporarily below its recent stable annual level of 4 percent.
(C) Increases in the pay of some workers are tied to the level of inflation, and at an inflation rate of 4 percent
or above, these pay raises constitute a force causing further inflation.
(D) The 1.2 percent rate of inflation last year represented a 10-year low.
(E) Government intervention cannot affect the rate of inflation to any significant degree.
答案B。我选的是D。
不明白B项中去年油价的通胀低于4%，这与今年的通胀4%有什么关系？去年的通胀只是1.2%啊，有些东西的通胀低于4%是很正常的啊，也并不是说今年或以后就不会继续上升啊。
39. The growing popularity of computer-based activities was widely expected to result in a decline in television viewing, since it had been assumed that people lack suffi cient free time to maintain current television-viewing levels while spending increasing amounts of free time on the computer. That assumption, however, is evidently false: In a recent mail survey concerning media use, a very large majority of respondents who report increasing time spent per week using computers report no change in time spent watching television. Which of the following would it be most useful to determine in order to evaluate the argument?
(A) Whether a large majority of the survey respondents reported watching television regularly
(B) Whether the amount of time spent watching television is declining among people who report that they
rarely or never use computers
(C) Whether the type of television programs a person watches tends to change as the amount of time spent
per week using computers increases
(D) Whether a large majority of the computer owners in the survey reported spending increasing amounts of
time per week using computers
(E) Whether the survey respondents’ reports of time spent using computers included time spent using
computers at work
答案E。
对于A项觉得有些模糊，调查的人是经常看电视的这一点也对调查挺重要的吧，如果不是经常看电视的人，那么花在电脑上的时间多了之后，也许因为本来看电视就没花多少时间，因此也就还继续看电视，即调查会体现不出电脑对电视的真正影响。
113. The pharmaceutical industry argues that because new drugs will not be developed unless heavy development costs can be recouped in later sales, the current 20 years of protection provided by patents should be extended in the case of newly developed drugs. However, in other industries new-product development continues despite high development costs, a fact that indicates that the extension is unnecessary. Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the pharmaceutical industry’s argument against the challenge made above?
(A) No industries other than the pharmaceutical industry have asked for an extension of the 20-year limit on
patent protection.
(B) Clinical trials of new drugs, which occur after the patent is granted and before the new drug can be
marketed, often now take as long as 10 years to complete.
(C) There are several industries in which the ratio of research and development costs to revenues is higher
than it is in the pharmaceutical industry.
(D) An existing patent for a drug does not legally prevent pharmaceutical companies from bringing to market
alternative drugs, provided they are sufficiently dissimilar to the patented drug.
(E) Much recent industrial innovation has occurred in products—for example, in the computer and electronics
industries—for which patent protection is often very ineffective.
答案B。
对于E选项不大理解为何错。原文中就说其他行业开发成本很高还是会开发，而E项则反驳说电脑和电子行业的产品革新近来较多，其专利权的保护并不实际有效。这一说法不正好反驳了原文中拿其他行业来说事的点吗？
114. Guidebook writer: I have visited hotels throughout the country and have noticed that in those built before 1930 the quality of the original carpentry work is generally superior to that in hotels built afterward. Clearly carpenters working on hotels before 1930 typically worked with more skill, care, and effort than carpenters who have worked on hotels built subsequently.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the guidebook writer’s argument?
(A) The quality of original carpentry in hotels is generally far superior to the quality of original carpentry in
other structures, such as houses and stores.
(B) Hotels built since 1930 can generally accommodate more guests than those built before 1930.
(C) The materials available to carpenters working before 1930 were not signifi cantly different in quality from
the materials available to carpenters working after 1930.
(D) The better the quality of original carpentry in a building, the less likely that building is to fall into disuse and
be demolished.
(E) The average length of apprenticeship for carpenters has declined signifi cantly since 1930.
答案D。看不明白为何是D。
124. Museums that house Renaissance oil paintings typically store them in environments that are carefully kept within narrow margins of temperature and humidity to inhibit any deterioration. Laboratory tests have shown that the kind of oil paint used in these paintings actually adjusts to climatic changes quite well. If, as some museum directors believe, paint is the most sensitive substance in these works, then by relaxing the standards for temperature and humidity control, museums can reduce energy costs without risking damage to these paintings. Museums would be rash to relax those standards, however, since results of preliminary tests indicate that gesso, a compound routinely used by Renaissance artists to help paint adhere to the canvas, is unable to withstand signifi cant variations in humidity.
In the argument above, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?
(A) The fi rst is an objection that has been raised against the position taken by the argument; the second is the
position taken by the argument.
(B) The fi rst is the position taken by the argument; the second is the position that the argument calls into
question.
(C) The fi rst is a judgment that has been offered in support of the position that the argument calls into
question; the second is a circumstance on which that judgment is, in part, based.
(D) The fi rst is a judgment that has been offered in support of the position that the argument calls into
question; the second is that position.
(E) The fi rst is a claim that the argument calls into question; the second is the position taken by the argument.
答案D。不明白。
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