TTGWD11-Q12这道题目讨论的比较少

赋格

Q37:TTGWD11-Q12:

In Brindon County, virtually all of the fasteners—such as nuts, bolts, and screws used by workshops and manufacturing firms have for several years been supplied by the Brindon Bolt Barn, a specialist wholesaler.  In recent months many of Brindon County’s workshops and manufacturing firms have closed down, and no new ones have opened.  Therefore, the Brindon Bolt Barn will undoubtedly show a sharp decline in sales volume and revenue for this year as compared to last year.
The argument depends on assuming which of the following?

A.      Last year the Brindon Bolt Barn’s sales volume and revenue were significantly higher than they had been the previous year.
B.       The workshops and manufacturing firms that have remained open have a smaller volume of work to do this year than they did last year.
C.      Soon the Brindon Bolt Barn will no longer be the only significant supplier of fasteners to Brindon County’s workshops.
D.      The Brindon Bolt Barn’s operating expenses have not increased this year.
E.       The Brindon Bolt Barn is not a company that gets the great majority of its business from customers outside Brindon County
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当时选的是C，答案是E。

linshenzi

我觉得关键还是在sharp decline，B选项也存在可能the remain worshops still account for certain amount of business of the BBB. 然后E重sharp跟majority有起了对应。

Albionchase

B 为什么不对，工厂少了，工作量少了，对零件的需求不是更少吗？

猴挠挠

是BBB供货给brindon的workshop和manufacturing firms，E说明BBB主要供货对象是brindon的店，从而印证了BBB会decline，一楼海外进货那说错了吧

怡然yiran

求教啊，这个题的E取非后不是说BBB把大部分货物卖到海外么？怎么是从海外进货啊？！！

流云枫

觉得这里的b选项把smaller改成same就对了。

-- by 会员 ozymendias (2010/10/12 20:35:20)

对象就是错误的  BBB公司才是主语 应该是对BBB公司的ASSUMPTION 而不是制造商什么的~~

ozymendias

觉得这里的b选项把smaller改成same就对了。

赋格

选E是对的。
因为BBB的角色是wholesaler批发商，因此作者认为国内厂关闭会导致BBB的经营规模降低。但事实上，BBB可以从海外的工厂进货。

对于完整推理的原文，其Assumption正确选项往往是以“NOT+Weaken”格式出现的。 例如E当中有not，去掉not后的E选项可以削弱weaken原文的推理。

-- by 会员 leadwest (2009/11/22 22:55:08)

谢谢，明白了，以前对BBB的角色没有理解。

leadwest

选E是对的。
因为BBB的角色是wholesaler批发商，因此作者认为国内厂关闭会导致BBB的经营规模降低。但事实上，BBB可以从海外的工厂进货。

对于完整推理的原文，其Assumption正确选项往往是以“NOT+Weaken”格式出现的。 例如E当中有not，去掉not后的E选项可以削弱weaken原文的推理。