OG11-30

db5288

不明白的是为什么C是weaken，如何weaken了？？？

Questions 29-30 are based on the following:

In many corporations, employees are being replaced by automated equipment in order to save money. However, many workers who lose their jobs to automation will need government assistance to survive, and the same corporations that are laying people off will eventually pay for that assistance through increased taxes and unemployment insurance paymen^ts.

30. Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the author's argument?

Ａ：Many workers who have already lost their jobs to automation have been unable to find new jobs.            - Ｂ：Many corporations that have failed to automate have seen their profits decline. Ｃ：Taxes and unemployment insurance are paid also by corporations that are not automating. Ｄ：Most of the new jobs created by automation pay less than the jobs eliminated by automation did. Ｅ：The initial investment in machinery for automation is often greater than the short-term savings in labor costs.

 

 

Argument Evaluation

Situation           Corporations replace employees with automated equipment to save money, but, through increased taxes and unemployment insurance, those corporations must pav for the government assistance programs the laid-off employees then need to survive. (The same as the previous item.)

Reasoning What information strengthens the author's argument? By stating that the need for government-assistance programs will rise, the author clearly assumes that the laid-off employees will not find work and will have to rely on such programs. If other workers
     who have lost jobs to automation have been unable to find work, then the argument is strengthened because it shows that the author's assumption has proven to be true.

A Correct. This statement properly identifies a factor that strengthens the author's argument.

B The argument is about the corporations that do automate, not about those that do not, and thus this statement is irrelevant.

C The fact that such costs are paid and will be paid by all corporations, whether or not they automate,
      weakens the author's argument by suggesting that the increased costs resulting from automation will be spread over a wider group.

D This statement repeats that the corporations will initially experience lowered costs for employee wages; it does not strengthen the argument.

E The equipment costs that are incurred immediately upon automating are not relevant to the argument. In the passage, the author maintains that corporations
    will eventually pay for the costs of increased government assistance, and it is those long-term costs on which the argument is based.

The correct answer is A.

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oneseven

因為失業的那些人無法找到工作

所以失業率上升

支持了eventually corporation should pay for assistance through increased taxes and unemployment insurance paymen^ts.

lsw

以下是引用db5288在2007-8-25 9:57:00的发言：

不明白的是为什么C是weaken，如何weaken了？？？

Questions 29-30 are based on the following:

In many corporations, employees are being replaced by automated equipment in order to save money. However, many workers who lose their jobs to automation will need government assistance to survive, and the same corporations that are laying people off will eventually pay for that assistance through increased taxes and unemployment insurance paymen^ts.

30. Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the author's argument?

Ａ：Many workers who have already lost their jobs to automation have been unable to find new jobs.            - Ｂ：Many corporations that have failed to automate have seen their profits decline. Ｃ：Taxes and unemployment insurance are paid also by corporations that are not automating. Ｄ：Most of the new jobs created by automation pay less than the jobs eliminated by automation did. Ｅ：The initial investment in machinery for automation is often greater than the short-term savings in labor costs.

 

 

 

Argument Evaluation

Situation           Corporations replace employees with automated equipment to save money, but, through increased taxes and unemployment insurance, those corporations must pav for the government assistance programs the laid-off employees then need to survive. (The same as the previous item.)

Reasoning What information strengthens the author's argument? By stating that the need for government-assistance programs will rise, the author clearly assumes that the laid-off employees will not find work and will have to rely on such programs. If other workers
     who have lost jobs to automation have been unable to find work, then the argument is strengthened because it shows that the author's assumption has proven to be true.

A Correct. This statement properly identifies a factor that strengthens the author's argument.

B The argument is about the corporations that do automate, not about those that do not, and thus this statement is irrelevant.

C The fact that such costs are paid and will be paid by all corporations, whether or not they automate,
      weakens the author's argument by suggesting that the increased costs resulting from automation will be spread over a wider group.

D This statement repeats that the corporations will initially experience lowered costs for employee wages; it does not strengthen the argument.

E The equipment costs that are incurred immediately upon automating are not relevant to the argument. In the passage, the author maintains that corporations
    will eventually pay for the costs of increased government assistance, and it is those long-term costs on which the argument is based.

The correct answer i

OG的解释中： be spread over a wider group.

答案C里面说，增加的成本会由所有的企业负担，所以相对来说，采用自动机器造成解雇工人的公司负担的成本就少一些。

所以，本答案削弱。

zuozuox

以下是引用db5288在2007-8-25 9:57:00的发言：

不明白的是为什么C是weaken，如何weaken了？？？

题目结论：裁员的公司最终要支付那些费用。

c：这些费用由裁员和不裁员的公司一块支付。所以费用平摊，消弱。