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Teenagers are often priced out of the labor market by the government-mandated minimum-wage level because employers cannot afford to pay that much for extra help. Therefore, if Congress institutes a subminimum wage, a new lower legal wage for teenagers, the teenage unemployment rate, which has been rising since 1960, will no longer increase.
前提: 因为TEANAGER的最低工资高于其他劳动者, 所以雇主不能付这高的价钱。
结论: lower legal wage, TEENAGE的失业率, 自从1960年以来一直升高的失业率, 就不会再升高。
MM体会体会这个“再”字, 就是那个no longer
还有, lower, 到底和哪个比较是lower?
不是比其他劳动者, 是比较teenager本身的工资。
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the argument above?
(A) Since 1960 the teenage unemployment rate has risen when the minimum wage has risen.
(B) Since 1960 the teenage unemployment rate has risen even when the minimum wage remained constant.
这个是直接反对原文的推理。
(C) Employers often hire extra help during holiday and warm weather seasons.
(D) The teenage unemployment rate rose more quickly in the 1970’s than it did in the 1960’s.(B)
(E) The teenage unemployment rate has occasionally declined in the years since 1960.
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