Personnel officer: The exorbitant cost of our health-insurance benefits reflects the high dollar amount of medical expenses incurred by our employees. Employees who are out of shape, as a group, have higher doctor bills and longer hospital stays than do their colleagues who are fit. Therefore, since we must reduce our health-insurance costs, we should offer a rigorous fitness program of jogging and weight lifting to all employees, and require employees who are out of shape to participate.
The conclusion reached by the personnel officer depends on which of the following assumptions?
这个题目应该是prep07的
BG: cost if health insurance is high
Premise: employee who are out of shape have more cost than fit colleague
Conclusion: fitness program shall be offer to reduce cost (to all employees)
争论主要在B和C之间:
B. The medical expenses incurred by employees who are required to participate in the fitness program would be less than those incurred by employees who are not required to participate.
这个选项,针对 all employee participate的情况,如果有很多 fit 的员工在公司,即使他们没有必要参加,医药费也不会增加。
所以这个假设是有问题的。
C. The strenuous activities required of out-of-shape employees by the program would not by themselves generate medical expenses greater than any reduction achieved by the program.
Negate C: activities generate additional cost
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gar_bbbbb 发表于 2016-1-27 18:19
Personnel officer: The exorbitant cost of our health-insurance benefits reflects the high dollar am ...
狗主回忆与本题有一个出入,就是狗主说这个健身项目是给胖员工的,而本题是说给all employees的。Ron在解答加强题版本的时候说,B选项之所以正确,跟all employees有很大关系,因为“The program will be offered to all employees, not just to out-of-shape employees. Employees deemed "fit" won't have to participate in the program, but, according to choice B, a further diminution of health-care costs will ensue if they do participate.”