GWD32-Q7，没找到令我信服的解释，有NN来讨论一下么

dogshead

Q10:GWD32-Q7

Travel agents are market intermediaries who make their living by gathering, organizing, and dispensing information about travel-related services that is not readily available to most consumers through new information technologies, such as the internet much of this information can now be made directly available to consumers. Demand for the services of travel agents will be drastically reduced

 

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

 

A.      Travel agents routinely use the internet and other new information technologies as sources for the information they obtain for their customers.

B.       The amount of information available through the internet and other new information technologies is increasing faster than the capabilities of most consumers to process it

C.      Many people use travel-related services, such as airlines and hotels without consulting a travel agent.

D.      The people who currently use the services of travel agents are also those most likely to gain access to new information technologies

E.       The internet and other new information technologies are currently used by a relatively small proportion of the population

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 原文的意思是因为internet等新技术的使用，TA用处将变少

B，说明TA仍然有用，weaken原文的意思，同意

D，使用internet等新技术的人，仍然使用TA，说明TA没有因为ineternet等新技术变得没用，也是weaken，为什么不选D呢？



 

[此贴子已经被作者于2009/9/3 14:24:34编辑过]

DarkRusher

楼上误解……D选项不是说使用新技术的人任然在使用TA，而是说现在使用TA的人将来也很有可能得到这些新技术（没有提及将来得到新技术后是否仍然使用TA），这样实际上是加强了原文“得到新技术”的条件。

melodyflying

D是加强了原文啊

terry_run

D is support...

5august

d即假设就算那些人能够轻易得到THAT INFORMATION,他们依然使用TRAVELANGENTS,是加强了原文啊

lorelei2001

那么请问一下，E为什么不是weaken呢？
            The internet and other new information technologies are currently used by a relatively small proportion of the population
就说明还是有很多人不用这些，而找agent啊。

castle0218

A和E的确很难选

mahaofei001

这题外网上有人选B，他还是个instructor级别的人。我贴过来他的帖子。
http://www.beatthegmat.com/travel-t86511.html
I think you're missing a step in the CR method. In most of your posts, you are debating between the right answer and another answer that is either completely irrelevant, or actually does the opposite of what you need. The way to avoid that is to clarify to yourself what the right answer should do before looking at the answer choices. From now on, you are forbidden to even look in the direction of the answer choices before you have a vague idea of what you're looking for.

Seriously now: the key for most CR questions is to try and predict what the right answer should do BEFORE you look at the answer choices. If you have an idea, and find an answer choice that does that or says that in different words, then that's the right answer. Go through the other answer choices to make sure, but be aggressive in your POE - don't let any answer choice that uses the same words as the passage distract you from your notion of what the right answer DOES.

Here, the argument again seems solid: Travel agents provide information, but people can now get that information themselves through the internet. Remind me why do we need travel agents anymore?

And yet, we are required to weaken the argument - to show that travel agents are still needed. Think "what could make this argument wrong?" "If I can get the info myself, why do I need a travel agent?" What can a travel agent do that I can't?

Well, it's his job, for one. The agent has the time to really search through the information and find me the best deals - something I don't have the time to do, because I have MY job to deal with. Also, the agent has the expertise and experience - he knows what he's looking for. He can do the searching job in half the time it would take me to do it, because he already recognizes patterns that I don't.

So in short, I'm looking for an answer choice that says that the travel agent is still useful - he has the time to search, and the expertise to do it faster that I can. With this reasoning in mind, B becomes the obvious choice: it explains why we need travel agents even though we have access to the info ourselves - there's just too much info for us mortals to cope.

D does the opposite - it tells us that the travel agent is indeed obsolete, as the people who use them are exactly those tech-savvy enough not to need using them from now on.