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ai559031

The more viewers a television show attracts, the greater the advertising revenue the show generates. The television network Vidnet's most popular show, Starlight, currently earns the network's highest profits, but next year, because of unavoidable increases in production costs, its profits are projected to fall to below the average for Vidnet shows. Therefore, Vidnet would earn greater profits overall if it replaced Starlight with a show of average popularity and production costs.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

A. The average profits of Vidnet shows have increased in each of the last three years.

B. Shows that occupy time slots immediately before and after very popular shows tend to have far more viewers that they otherwise would.

C. Starlight currently has the highest production costs of all Vidnet shows.

D. Last year Vidnet lost money on a weekly show that was substantially similar to Starlight and was broadcast on a different day from Starlight.

E. Even if, as a result of increased production costs, Starlight becomes less profitable than the average for Vidnet shows, it will still be more profitable than the average for television shows of all networks combined.

ans. B

看不懂Ｂ在說什麼...還有Ｅ為什麼是錯的？Ｅ不是也weaken了結論嗎？

Mark_dftba

方案目的题型。
背景： Starlight这个节目特别受欢迎，但是成本太高，利润低。
目的：提高profit
方案：把 Starlight这个节目砍掉换成一个average profit水平的节目。

B选项的意思是，挨着popular shows的节目，都 far more viewers。 所以如果砍掉 Starlight这个爆款节目，其实是会严重影响挨着 Starlight 的其他节目的观看人数的。也就是说，原文把 Starlight 换掉的方案，是会有副作用的，是削弱。

我觉得E选项是out of scope了。因为原文讨论的都是这个电视台自己的shows。E选项 将all networks的average拿来比较，这个比较没有意义，因为和原文的逻辑线不相关。

ShayneYang

我觉得E的问题主要在于时态，原文的结论是，如果这个节目在去年被换了的话，他们的收入就会增加。但是E的说辞这个节目今后还是会比average的收入高，跟去年谁的收入高没什么关系。

AMBER513

看一下！               

贝西文迅

我也选的是E，我觉得是不是因为要从整体来看，因为文章结论说V公司如果换了S之后，would earn greater profits overall。B选项说明，假如不换，那么S节目之前和之后的节目都能吸引到更多的观众，那么他们获得利润将更多。