GWD27里的几道boldface题！

winniebear0202

Q8:

Environmental organizations want to preserve the land surrounding the Wilgrinn Wilderness Area from residential development.  They plan to do this by purchasing that land from the farmers who own it.  That plan is ill-conceived:  if the farmers did sell their land, they would sell it to the highest bidder, and developers would outbid any other bidders.  On the other hand, these farmers will never actually sell any of the land, provided that farming it remains viable.  But farming will not remain viable if the farms are left unmodernized, and most of the farmers lack the financial resources modernization requires.  And that is exactly why a more sensible preservation strategy would be to assist the farmers to modernize their farms to the extent needed to maintain viability.

 

In the argument as a whole, the two boldface proportions play which of the following roles?

 

1. The first presents a goal that the argument rejects as ill-conceived; the second is evidence that is presented as grounds for that rejection.

2. The first presents a goal that the argument concludes cannot be attained; the second is a reason offered in support of that conclusion.

3. The first presents a goal that the argument concludes can be attained; the second is a judgment disputing that conclusion.

4. The first presents a goal, strategies for achieving which are being evaluated in the argument; the second is a judgment providing a basis for the argument’s advocacy of a particular strategy.

5. The first presents a goal that the argument endorses; the second presents a situation that the argument contends must be changed if that goal is to be met in the foreseeable future.

答案是E，不明白B哪里错了。

 

Last year a record number of new manufacturing jobs were created.  Will this year bring another record?  Well, any new manufacturing job is created either within an existing company or by the start-up of a new company.  Within existing firms, new jobs have been created this year at well below last year’s record pace.  At the same time, there is considerable evidence that the number of new companies starting up this year will be no higher than it was last year and there is no reason to think that the new companies starting up this year will create more jobs per company than did last year’s start-ups.  So clearly, the number of new jobs created this year will fall short of last year’s record.

 

In the argument given, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?

 

1. The first provides evidence in support of the main conclusion of the argument; the second is a claim that argument challenges.

2. The first is a generalization that the argument seeks to establish; the second is a conclusion that the argument draws in order to support that generalization.

3. The first is a generalization that the argument seeks to establish; the second is a judgment that has been advanced in order to challenge that generalization.

4.  

5. The first is presented as obvious truth on which the argument is based; the second is a claim that has been advanced in support of a position that the argument opposes.

6. The first is presented as obvious truth on which the argument is based; the second is a judgment advanced in support of the main conclusion of the argument.

答案是E,请问C哪里错了呢？

winniebear0202

错了，上题选项序号错了，16 题答案是The first is presented as obvious truth on which the argument is based; the second is a judgment advanced in support of the main conclusion of the argument的那个。望赐教！

mbz

Q8

D should be the answer,

E is wrong, The first presents a goal that the argument did not endorses.

B is wrong too, the second is not a reason offered in support of that conclusion.

Q16.

C is not right because the first is not a generalization that the argument seeks to establish; the second is a judgment that has been advanced  (that does not mean to)challenge that generalization.