Paper&rint is a chain of British stores selling magazines, books, and stationery products. In Britain, magazines’ retail prices are set by publishers, and the retailer’s share of a magazine’s retail price is 25 percent. Since Paper&rint’s margin on books and stationery products is much higher, the chain’s management plans to devote more of its stores’ shelf space to books and stationery products and reduce the number of magazine titles that its stores carry.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly argues that the plan, if put into effect, will not increase Paper&rint’s profits?
A: Recently magazine publishers, seeking to increase share in competitive sectors of the market, have been competitively cutting the retail prices of some of the largest circulation magazines.
B: In market research surveys, few consumers identify Paper&rint as a book or stationery store but many recognize and value the broad range of magazines it carries.
C: The publisher’s share of a magazine’s retail price is 50 percent, and the publisher also retains all of the magazine’s advertising revenue.
D: Consumers who subscribe to a magazine generally pay less per issue than they would if they bought the magazine through a retail outlet such as Paper&rint.
E: Some of Paper& Print’s locations are in small towns and represent the only retail outlet for books within the community.
Since Paper&rint’s margin on books and stationery products is much higher,但是如果买的人少的话还是不能increase its profits 啊,也就是说 few consumers identify Paper&rint as a book or stationery store but many recognize and value the broad range of magazines it carries.那么就算他放再多的books and stationery products没人买，profits也不会提高啊
楼上的MM说得有道理,我主要是对这句话few consumers identify Paper&rint as a book or stationery store but many recognize and value the broad range of magazines it carries.的含义不是很了解. 是不是说consumers认为它是卖杂志的不是买书的,所以不管它是否增加再多的books and stationery products也不会有更多的人去买?这里是不是有个假设,consumers买的大都是自己认识或了解的出版社发行的书刊杂志?
In the past, most children who went sledding in the winter snow in Verland used wooden sleds with runners and steering bars. Ten years ago, smooth plastic sleds became popular; they go faster than wooden sleds but are harder to steer and slow. The concern that plastic sleds are more dangerous is clearly borne out by the fact that the number of children injured while sledding was much higher last winter than it was ten years ago.
Which of the following, if true in Verland, most seriously undermines the force of the evidence cited?
A. A few children still use traditional wooden sleds.
B. Very few children wear any kind of protective gear, such as helmets, while sledding.
C. Plastic sleds can be used in a much wider variety of snow conditions than wooden sleds can.
D. Most sledding injuries occur when a sled collides with a tree, a rock, or another sled.
E.
Because the traditional wooden sled can carry more than one rider, an accident involving a wooden sled can result in several children being injured. 答案C.是否有隐含假设Plastic sleds被广泛使用所以使用的人多.
In the nation of Partoria, large trucks currently account for 6 percent of miles driven on Partoria’s roads but are involved in 12 percent of all highway fatalities. The very largest trucks – those with three trailers – had less than a third of the accident rate of single- and double-trailer trucks. Clearly, therefore, one way for Partoria to reduce highway deaths would be to require shippers to increase their use of triple-trailer trucks.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
A: Partorian trucking companies have so far used triple-trailer trucks on lightly traveled sections of major highways only.
B: No matter what changes Partoria makes in the regulation of trucking, it will have to keep some smaller roads off-limits to all large trucks.
C: Very few fatal collisions involving trucks in Partoria are collisions between two trucks.
D: In Partoria, the safety record of the trucking industry as a whole has improved slightly over the past ten years.
E: In Partoria, the maximum legal payload of a triple-trailer truck is less than three times the maximum legal payload of the largest of the single-trailer trucks
答案A,是否也有隐含假设同样的汽车用在 lightly traveled sections of major highways上的就比其他路面上的事故率低?
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