OG-126

温弗雷德

126. Many companies now have employee assistance programs that enable employees, free of charge, to improve their physical fitness, reduce stress, and learn ways to stop smoking. These programs increase worker productivity, reduce absenteeism, and lessen insurance costs for employee health care. Therefore, these programs benefit the company as well as the employee.

Which of the following, if true, most significantly strengthens the conclusion above?

(A) Physical fitness programs are often the most popular services offered to employees.

(B) Studies have shown that training in stress management is not effective for many people.

(C) Regular exercise reduces people's risk of heart disease and provides them with increased energy.

(D) Physical injuries sometimes result from entering a strenuous physical fitness program too quickly. C

(E) Employee assistance programs require companies to hire people to supervise the various programs offered.

比较坍台，这题也出问题，但是做的时候就在犹豫，exercise在文中并未提及，employee assistance programs 完全有可能不包含exercise。所以就觉得与题目无关，故比较之下选了a

请NN看看我的想法错在哪里，谢谢~

jeffzhu

These programs increase worker productivity, reduce absenteeism, and lessen insurance costs for employee health care

只要答案中支持该program的上述3个功能（benefits)的任何一个，就是support.

choice A: popular不等同于actually useful

choice B: weaken

choice C:support,心脏病少了，有劲了，病假就少，工作效率就高，公司附的保险自然就低了（long-term),于公于私都有利（benefit the company as well as the employee）

choice D:weaken,而且即便是weakern 也站不住脚，吃饭太快也会噎死，不等于说吃饭有害。

choice E: 细分析：1）公司要多花钱雇人，增加开销，似乎只有利员工而不利公司，跟原文中的公私两利相矛盾。2)当然，这里还可以延伸至比较多雇两个人管理项目的成本增加跟长期来看公司因此而获得的好处相比哪一个更大的问题。严格讲没有明显的weakern或support，而是irrelevant。

programs that help improving physical fitness显然就是exercise，这一点上可以不必多抠字眼

温弗雷德

看到答案的时候自然能很顺利的说服自己C是对的，但是想问在做题时怎么区别选项涉及的内容是否与文章所提及的相关还是超出范围呢？

各位看到的解答下我的困惑把~~

wingkim

我就选了A。

我的考虑是：

原文：公司提供program使得员工受益的同时公司也得益

需要假设：员工会积极参加或公司会强制参加，否则program根本不能起作用（原文存在的GAP)。

A刚好是填补GAP的support，我觉得比C更好。因为C虽然可以推出对员工好从而使得公司和员工得益，问题是在这样的条件下，C还是存在上述的GAP。而且C从根本上说只是原文的一个具体例子，相应的理论推理其实已经包含在原文的推导过程中。

lawyer_1关于支持的类型中的说法“假设类支持：将原文的推理中的GAP填补。消除原文的推理缺陷。因果型结论。条件型结论常以假设的形式出现”。

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piaony

问的是哪个答案可以加强结论。就是看那个选项对得出结论有帮助喽。

A说的是健身的grogram受欢迎，而对于结论（对公司和员工都有益）并没有起到加强的作用。

建议还是再看OG的解释吧（也是对我自己说）

steveyangxt

嗯， 此题有点想法。

做题思路;看题后毫不犹豫的选了c,当时啊排除法以下就圈定了。

现在看看，此题出的不错，搂主问得也很好。

文中说实施一个健身计划， 目的是提高员工的身体素质，减少压抑，帮助戒烟。

这是目的。另外，此计划能帮助公司减少医疗费用，矿工率啊什么的。这是计划的一个功能。

得出结论：计划对公司对员工都有利。

大家可以看出， 要想得出对员工也有利，靠上面的目的是不行的，因为目的不一定能实现啊。

所以需要一个事实表明计划真的能提高员工的身体素质等等。

所以选c 不知对不对，商榷。

pengfei1102

以下是引用温弗雷德在2005-7-17 12:05:00的发言：

126. Many companies now have employee assistance programs that enable employees, free of charge, to improve their physical fitness, reduce stress, and learn ways to stop smoking. These programs increase worker productivity, reduce absenteeism, and lessen insurance costs for employee health care. Therefore, these programs benefit the company as well as the employee.

Which of the following, if true, most significantly strengthens the conclusion above?

(A) Physical fitness programs are often the most popular services offered to employees.

(B) Studies have shown that training in stress management is not effective for many people.

(C) Regular exercise reduces people's risk of heart disease and provides them with increased energy.

(D) Physical injuries sometimes result from entering a strenuous physical fitness program too quickly. C

(E) Employee assistance programs require companies to hire people to supervise the various programs offered.

比较坍台，这题也出问题，但是做的时候就在犹豫，exercise在文中并未提及，employee assistance programs 完全有可能不包含exercise。所以就觉得与题目无关，故比较之下选了a

请NN看看我的想法错在哪里，谢谢~

 我也选A 。 想的是 ：因为：A，program popular, 所以， 引进这个 是一个不错的选择。 员工们喜欢， 引进后公司 又能从中 得利。。  

而 C regluar exercise, 完全 自己可以 在 家或者其他地方 玩啊。觉得这和 这个 PROGRAM. 无关。

请 NN 看看 我错在哪里。 谢谢

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lawyer_1

A讲的是此类项目受欢迎，原文结论讲的是有没有好处。（不要再进一步想啦，进一步向就是无关）， 不相干。

C说的exercise， 没有exercise如何键身，即使是冥想，也算是exercise。C提出该项目的对职工的另外的好处。直接支持结论

julia_ggw

以下是引用温弗雷德在2005-7-17 12:05:00的发言：

126. Many companies now have employee assistance programs that enable employees, free of charge, to improve their physical fitness, reduce stress, and learn ways to stop smoking.

 These programs increase worker productivity, reduce absenteeism, and lessen insurance costs for employee health care. （原因）

Therefore, these programs benefit the company as well as the employee.（结论）

Which of the following, if true, most significantly strengthens the conclusion above?

(A) Physical fitness programs are often the most popular services offered to employees.

原因是这种program可以提高生产率，降低缺勤，减少医疗保险支出，结论是这种program对公司和员工都有益。A项讲这种program很popular，跟它是否对员工和公司有益有什么关系呢？一个program可能popular但是可能并无益处，比如公司提供免费的cola这个program也可能很popular，然而却不见得有益健康。因此我认为根本就是无关选项。

(C) Regular exercise reduces people's risk of heart disease and provides them with increased energy.

举例来证明一个general的说法是最常见的strengthen的方法之一了。

[此贴子已经被作者于2006-5-12 21:03:41编辑过]

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