难题请教，怀疑答案有错！

sunandmoon

Q2.

In two months, the legal minimum wage in the country of Kirlandia will increase

from five Kirlandic dollars(KD5.00) Per hour to KD5.50 per hour. Opponents of

this increase have argued that the resulting rise in wages will drive the inflation

rate up. In fact its impact on wages will probably be negligible, since only a

very small proportion of all Kirfandic workers are currently receiving less than

KD5.50 per hour.

 

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

 

A. Most people in kirlandia who are currently earning the minimum wage have

  been employed at their current jobs for less than a year.

B. Some firms in Kirlandia have paid workers considerably less than KD5.00

  per hour, in violation of kirlandic employment regulations.

C. Many businesses hire trainees at or near the minimum wage but must

  reward trained workers by keeping their paylevels above the pay level

  of trainees.

D. The greatest growth in Kirlandia’s economy in recent years has been in

   those sectors where workers earn wages that tend to be much higher

   than the minimum wage.

E The current minimum wage is insufficient for a worker holding only one job 

to earn enough to support a family ,even when working full time at that job.

sunandmoon

答案是B。我选了C。

不是通常说some都是错的吗？而且C很对阿

zacharyzhang

所有选项里面最可能削弱的是B。

题目说最低工资标准要上涨了，然后反对派认为这会带来通货膨胀，意思是说最低工资标准上涨了以后发给工人的钞票就要多了。然后作者说不对，实际上不会有多少影响（也就是说发给工人的钞票不会多多少），原因是只有很少一部分工人的工资低于KD5.5这个新标准（也就是说只有恨少人会因为这个新标准而增加工资）。

先不看选项，我们自己分析下，要削弱的是问题是什么呢？从文章中看，观点是“因为会加薪的人很少”“因此不会引起通货膨胀”。所以我们可以从两个角度来削弱：需要加薪的人不少（人数），或者说需要加的钱（总量）很多。

现在来看选项
A: 大多数拿最低标准工资的人工作不足一年
B: 有些工厂违规，支付的薪水比最低标准低很多
C: 很多公司以最低工资标准雇佣初级工人，高级工人的工资比初级工人的工资高。
D: 最近增长最快的行业所支付的工资比最低标准高很多
E: 目前最低工资标准不足以支撑只做一份工的工人的生活

B可以部分说明需要增加的钱总量比较多，因为考虑到目前这些工厂支付的薪水比5还少很多，将来补足到5.5就需要增加比较大的数目。

C却无法说明我们假设的任何一个方面。即使不考虑我们所做的假设，C选项也只说明了高级工人工资比初级工人工资高这一点，与加工资是否影响通货膨胀毫无关联。

gillfiese

晕,B和C貌似都有问题啊。。。。。。

for B，如果有些公司已经违反了法律（还没受到惩罚，因为那些工人工资水平还显著低于5块），现在法律提高了minimum wage，却如何说这些公司就会遵守法律了呢？

for C，题目说了，现在在5<x<5.5范围里面的人不多，那么trained worker工资要比trainee高（>5)，却不好说是不是比5.5高，但是即使比5.5低，那么肯定也不会是很多很多人。现在trainee工资涨到5.5至少了，trained worker工资会不会涨呢？不好说，因为只要满足>5.5（确切的说大于trainee工资）的话就不一定要涨。如果是有原来在5到5.5之间的trained worker，也肯定不在多数（题目给出），所以综合起来很难判断。

但是如果原题没错，我宁可选C了，many & must语气上更像答案（只好这么懵了)

dancingcandy

C. Many businesses hire trainees at or near the minimum wage but must

  reward trained workers by keeping their paylevels above the pay level

  of trainees.

文章没有说道pay level of trainees. 你怎么知道paylevel of trainees跟minimum wage一样呢？