請問OG-116和og-127的句意?

哈維

116. Laws requiring the use of headlights during daylight hours can prevent automobile collisions. However, since daylight visibility is worse in countries farther from the equator, any such laws would obvisouly be more effective in preventing collisions in those countries. In fact, the only countries that actually have such laws are farther from the equator than is the continental United States.
Which of the following conclusions could be most properly drawn from the information given above?

127. Small-business groups are lobbying to defeat proposed federal legislation that would substantially raise the federal minimum wage. This opposition is surprising since the legislation they oppose would, for the first time, exempt all small businesses from paying any minimum wage. Which of the following, if true, would best explain the opposition of small-business groups

qww

116 要求在白天使用前灯的法令可以阻止汽车碰撞。但是.因为越远离赤道的国家白天的可见度越差，并且上述法令在那些国家在阻止碰撞方面越有效。实际上，那些有此法令的国家仅是比美洲大陆离赤道还远的国家。
127。小企业群体正在游说挫败联邦立法关于实质上提高联邦最低工资的提议。这种反对是令人惊讶的，因为他们（小企业）反对的立法，第一次，将所有小企业要求付最低工资排除在外。下面那个可以解释小企业的反对。

哈維

Thanks a lot

涓涓细雨

还是不太理解原文的意思，请各位指教，尤其是正确选项的意思  看的晕

可能是我的逻辑思维能力有点差吧，总是拐不过弯来

BiteGmat

127：

结合题干和选项：新法律提高了最低工资水平，大企业必须遵守所以大企业的工资水平将提高。小企业为吸引工人必须和大企业工资水平保持一致，所以小企业的工资水平也将提高（尽管小企业不必遵守新法律）。所以小企业会反对。

应该是这样吧

芙蓉菜菜

127

同意楼上的观点

Small-business groups are lobbying to defeat proposed federal legislation that would substantially raise the federal minimum wage. This opposition is surprising since the legislation they oppose would, for the first time, exempt all small businesses from paying any minimum wage.

这道题在看题目的时候看到surprising就应该思考一下为什么？

因为小企业在反对一个从法律上讲对小企业有利的规定。

正确选项告诉我们事实上这个小企业并不能按照法律规定的那样免除最低工资，就解释了这个矛盾。

我爱欧洲

127.题干说surprising，所以小企业出于其他考虑不希望法律生效。其实他们反对的是raise wage,而不是exemption。因为小企业为吸引员工必须支付lowest wage，所以真正对他们有影响的还是raise wage.

swlfx

楼上说的对，同意。

oceanalma

以下是引用qww在2003-12-26 9:19:00的发言：
116 要求在白天使用前灯的法令可以阻止汽车碰撞。但是.因为越远离赤道的国家白天的可见度越差，并且上述法令在那些国家在阻止碰撞方面越有效。实际上，那些有此法令的国家仅是比美洲大陆离赤道还远的国家。
127。小企业群体正在游说挫败联邦立法关于实质上提高联邦最低工资的提议。这种反对是令人惊讶的，因为他们（小企业）反对的立法，第一次，将所有小企业要求付最低工资排除在外。下面那个可以解释小企业的反对。

116 这个however，在这里怎么显得很不合适，觉得通篇都是递进的关系，没有转折阿？怎么要however呢，请指点？

127的c选项 (C) The exact number of companies that are currently required to pay no less than the minimum wage but that[Y1]  would be exempt under the proposed laws is unknown

这句话怎么翻译呢？第一个that是company德从句，那么第二个that呢？前面还有一个but,是不都是修饰company,但我觉得就不用but that了，直接用but 好过啦，为什么多了一个that呢?

很想知道知道

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-9-25 19:15:06编辑过]

oceanalma

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