大全-2-18

lingxia

18. Lark Manufacturing Company initiated a voluntary Quality Circles program for machine operators. Independent surveys of employee attitudes indicated that the machine operators participating in the program were less satisfied with their work situations after two years of the program’s existence than they were at the program’s start. Obviously, any workers who participate in a Quality Circles program will, as a result, become less satisfied with their jobs.
Each of the following, if true, would weaken the conclusion drawn above EXCEPT:
(A) The second survey occurred during a period of recession when rumors of cutbacks and layoffs at Lark Manufacturing were plentiful.
(B) The surveys also showed that those Lark machine operators who neither participated in Quality Circles nor knew anyone who did so reported the same degree of lessened satisfaction with their work situations as did the Lark machine operators who participated in Quality Circles.
(C) While participating in Quality Circles at Lark Manufacturing, machine operators exhibited two of the primary indicators of improved job satisfaction: increased productivity and decreased absenteeism.
(D) Several workers at Lark Manufacturing who had participated in Quality Circles while employed at other companies reported that, while participating in Quality Circles in their previous companies, their work satisfaction had increased.
(E) The machine operators who participated in Quality Circles reported that, when the program started, they felt that participation might improve their work situations.

答案是E，没什么意见，是个明显的支持选项

但是C、D  我看不出来 是削弱选项，c挺多算个无关选项，D还稍微有些支持的意思，只是不在Lark Manufacturing ，但同样是一个Quality Circles 项目啊

因为题目是weaken ... EXCEPT,那么C D都有可能是啊

不知道我这样理解是否错了

谢谢

snow_mountain

C， D都是很明显的weaken 呀。中间都有提到有人认为increased satisfaction呀。

八戒

我觉得这道题目中有一个hidden assumption:

because of a voluntary Quality Circles -----> workers become less satisfied with their jobs.

C选项用他因解释了workers become less satisfied with their jobs。

而D则直接说明：并不是 a voluntary Quality Circles 导致workers become less satisfied with their jobs。

所以C、D都是weaken。

讨论........

lingxia

对不起，头脑发昏了，把题目看错了，以为是

参加了项目＝＝＝》满意度提高

现在明白了， 谢谢

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