22. At the end of the year, Wilson’s Department Store awards free merchandise to its top salespeople. When presented with the fact that the number of salespeople receiving these awards has declined markedly over the past fifteen years, the newly appointed president of the company responded, “In that case, since our award criterion at present is membership in the top third of our sales force, we can also say that the number of salespeople passed over for these awards has similarly declined.” Which one of the following is an assumption that would allow the company president’s conclusion to be properly drawn? (A) Policies at Wilson’s with regard to hiring salespeople have not become more lax over the past fifteen years. (B) The number of salespeople at Wilson’s has increased over the past fifteen years. (C) The criterion used by Wilson’s for selecting its award recipients has remained the same for the past fifteen years. (D) The average total sales figures for Wilson’s salespeople have been declining for fifteen years. (E) Wilson’s calculates its salespeople’s sales figures in the same way as it did fifteen years ago. 答案：C PASS OVER是什么意思，C怎么推出来的？ 24. Until recently it was thought that ink used before the sixteenth century did not contain titanium. However, a new type of analysis detected titanium in the ink of the famous Bible printed by Johannes Gutenberg and in that of another fifteenth-century Bible known as B-36, though not in the ink of any of numerous other fifteenth-century books analyzed. This finding is of great significance, since it not only strongly supports the hypothesis that B-36 was printed by Gutenberg but also shows that the presence of titanium in the ink of the purportedly fifteenth century Vinland Map can no longer be regarded as a reason for doubting the map’s authenticity. The reasoning in the passage is vulnerable to criticism on the ground that (A) the results of the analysis are interpreted as indicating that the use of titanium as an ingredient in fifteenth-century ink both was, and was not, extremely restricted (B) if the technology that makes it possible to detect titanium in printing ink has only recently become available, it is unlikely that printers or artists in the fifteenth century would know whether their ink contained titanium or not (C) it is unreasonable to suppose that determination of the date and location of a document’s printing or drawing can be made solely on the basis of the presence or absence of a single element in the ink used in the document (D) both the B-36 Bible and the Vinland Map are objects that can be appreciated on their own merits whether or not the precise date of their creation or the identity of the person who made them is known (E) the discovery of titanium in the ink of the Vinland Map must have occurred before titanium was discovered in the ink of the Gutenberg Bible and the B-36 Bible 答案A C为何不对，A为何对 Teacher: Journalists who conceal the identity of the sources they quote stake their professional reputations on what may be called the logic of anecdotes. This is so because the statements reported by such journalists are dissociated from the precise circumstances in which they were made and thus will be accepted for publication only if the statements are high in plausibility or originality or interest to a given audience—precisely the properties of a good anecdote. Student: But what you are saying, then, is that the journalist need not bother with sources in the first place. Surely, any reasonably resourceful journalist can invent plausible, original, or interesting stories faster than they can be obtained from unidentified sources. 能帮我翻译一下吗，
22。pass over这里指超过的意思。也就是超过公司设定的获奖标准。 Teacher: Journalists who conceal the identity of the sources they quote stake their professional reputations on what may be called the logic of anecdotes. This is so because the statements reported by such journalists are dissociated from the precise circumstances in which they were made and thus will be accepted for publication only if the statements are high in plausibility or originality or interest to a given audience—precisely the properties of a good anecdote. Student: But what you are saying, then, is that the journalist need not bother with sources in the first place. Surely, any reasonably resourceful journalist can invent plausible, original, or interesting stories faster than they can be obtained from unidentified sources 那些隐瞒他们引用资料出处的记者是将他们的职业信用建立在所谓的对奇闻佚事的逻辑推理的赌注上。这是因为这些记者所报道的东西与他们产生的环境是分离的。同时对于公众只要满足可信或者有创意或满足读者的兴趣（这些恰好是一片好的轶文的特点）就会被公众接受。 下面的我就不翻译了，相信你也能懂。我印象中是一道LAST题。LAST题确实可以练阅读。可惜我没有全部做完。
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