22. GWD-18-Q38A survey of entrepreneurs who started companies last year shows that while virtually all did substantial preparatory research and planning, only half used that work to produce a formal business plan. Since, on average, the entrepreneurs without formal plans secured the capital they needed in half the time of those with plans, these survey results indicate that, in general, formal plans did not help the entrepreneurs who produced them to secure the capital they needed. 原题说:没有formal plans的花一半的时间就可以取得需要的资金,所以in general 来说formal plans对企业没帮助(以偏盖全) Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument? Predict:说明偏的偏
A. Companies started by entrepreneurs who had used formal business plans to attract investment were on the whole as profitable in their first year as were companies started by entrepreneurs who had not produced such plans. B. In surveys of entrepreneurs who have attempted without success to raise sufficient capital, more than half of the respondents indicate that they have produced a formal business plan. C. Among the entrepreneurs surveyed, those who did not produce formal business plans sought and received a much larger proportion of their capital from investors with whom they had a long-standing business relationship. 解释偏的偏 D. The entrepreneurs surveyed who did not produce a formal business plan spent nearly as much time doing preparatory research and planning as the entrepreneurs who produced plans. 文章前提就讲过了 E. The entrepreneurs who produced business plans generally reported later that the process of writing the plan had increased their confidence that their company would succeed. |