求助：og 13 24题与GWD-2-12比较

qinkaiyi

GWD-2-12

Which of the following most logically completes the passage?

Concerned about financial well-being of its elderly citizens, the government of Runagia decided two years ago to increase by 20 percent the government-provided pension paid to all Runagians over 65.  Inflation in the intervening period has been negligible, and the increase has been duly received by all eligible Runagians.  Nevertheless, many of them are no better off financially than they were before the increase, in large part because ________.

They rely entirely on the government pension for their income

Runagian banks are so inefficient that it can take up to three weeks to cash a pension check

They buy goods whose prices tend to rise especially fast in times of inflation

The pension was increased when the number of elderly Runagians below the poverty level reached an all-time high

In Runagia children typically supplement the income of elderly parents, but only by enough to provide them with a comfortable living

看了很多帖子，大部分的结果是E.

但在OG 13 中的24题的答案是C

Plan: Concerned about the welfare of its senior citizens, the government of Runagia decided two years ago to increase by 20 percent the government-provided pension paid to all Runagians age sixty-five and older.

Result: Many Runagian senior citizens are no better off financially now than they were before the increase.

Further information: The annual rate of inflation since the pension increase has been below 5 percent, and theincreased pension has been duly received by all eligible Runagians.

In light of the further information, which of the following, if true, does most to explain the result that followedimplementation of the plan?

• (A)  The majority of senior citizens whose financial position has not improved rely entirely on the governmentpension for their income.
  
  
  
                                         
  
  
• (B)  The Runagian banking system is so inefficient that cashing a pension check can take as much as threeweeks.
  
  
  
                                         
  
  
• (C)  The prices of goods and services that meet the special needs of many senior citizens have increased at arate much higher than the rate of inflation.
  
  
  
                                         
  
  
• (D)  The pension increase occurred at a time when the number of Runagians age sixty-five and older who wereliving below the poverty level was at an all-time high.
  
  
  
                                         
  
  
• (E)  The most recent pension increase was onlythe second such increase inthe last ten years.
  
  
  
  其中解释是
  
  
  The annual rate ofinflation is, however, an average calculated over a large number of goods and services.The prices of some goods and services rise more than the prices of other goods andservices. It could be the case that the goods and services senior citizens need are thosethat have risen most in price. I f this were the case, their pension increase could have beeninsufficient to raise their standard of living.
  
  
                                  
  
  
                          
  
  
                 
  
  
  
  
  请问如果OG中的E项和GWD-2-12一样的话，那是选c还是选e呢？
  
  
  谢谢！
  
  
  
                                         
  
  
  

                                

                        

               

qinkaiyi

DeliciaAn 发表于 2015-6-6 23:29
所以，还是看题目的要求吧。

哇！！！好久不来CD了！！！！谢谢你一年半以后的恢复。现在回过头看看自己的问题好搞笑哦！我已经研究生快要毕业啦！谢谢你

DeliciaAn

所以，还是看题目的要求吧。

DeliciaAn

其实 再往下看也可以看到Ron 回答Precisely->
reotokate wrote:How about Choice C? Is it because the passage states "inflation has been negligible", this factor is a no longer a concern?

Ron replied:
Precisely.

DeliciaAn

亲我觉得，OG 和 GWD有个地方有区别啊：
OG:原文->The annual rate of inflation since the pension increase has been below 5 percent.
GWD:原文->Inflation in the intervening period has been negligible.

OG:C选项：The prices much higher than the rate of inflation.
GWD: C选项：They buy goods whose prices tend to rise especially fast in times of inflation.

OG原文说低于5%的通货膨胀率，然后C说这帮人买的东西比通货膨胀率要高很多。通货膨胀率用来衡量人的实际购买能力－>影响生活水平

GWD: 原文说通货膨胀率的作用可以忽视。这样的话，C再怎样说，也是可以忽视的啊。

额。。。可能还是不具备说服力。放个ron对于GWD-E选项的解释吧：
https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/forums/concerned-about-the-well-being-of-its-eldery-citizens-t8929.html
“when you get questions like this, SIMPLICITY and DIRECT RELATIONSHIP TO THE MATERIAL OF THE PASSAGE are the keys.

one especially powerful technique is to simplify the passage down to 1-2 sentences.

here is one such simplification, for this passage:
the government increased all the elderly people's pensions. but, for some reason, the elderly people don't actually have any more money now.
our challenge is to find the "some reason" here.

we need a reason why the increase will have NO EFFECT on the elderly people's income. in other words, we must find some factor that will immediately cancel out the effect of the increase, since we know that the elderly people are indeed getting the money.

(e) does a splendid job of this. if the elderly's income is supplemented by their children - up to a FIXED amount ("a comfortable living") - then it makes absolutely no difference how much pension those elderly people are receiving, as long as the pension is less than "a comfortable living". in other words, their children are just going to pay the difference anyway.

(d) gives no reason why the effect of the pension would be cancelled out. in fact, if (d) is true, then we would expect just the opposite: if more elderly runagians are in poverty than ever before, then the effect of the pension increase should be amplified (in terms of lifting them out of that poverty).”