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?
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?
A.A person who is fit would receive a routine physical checkup by a doctor less regularly than would a person who is out of shape.
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.
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.
D.The fitness program would serve more employees who are out of shape than it would employees who are fit.
E.The employees who participate in the fitness program would be away from work because of illness less than would the employees who do not participate.
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.”