这个argument的主要想要establish a conclusion that "that might well be too optimistic",其中that 指股民对高层管理人员买股票这一现象的结论。所以,since 后面(第二句黑字)所给出的是作者对于他这个argument 的解释,而第一句黑字是指出故事发生的环境或现象。
89 Since it has because known that several of a bank's to executives have been buying shares in their own bank, the bank's depositors, who had been worried by rumors that the bank faced impending financial collapse, have been greatly relieved. They reason that, since top executives evidently have faith in the bank's financial soundness, those worrisome rumors must be false. Such reasoning might well be overoptimistic, however, since corporate executives have been known to buy shares in their own company in a calculated attempt to dispel negative rumors about the company's health
In the argument above, the two boldfaced portions play which of the following roles?
A The first describe evidence that has been taken as supporting a conclusion; the second gives a reason for questioning that support.
B The first describe evidence that has been taken as supporting a conclusion; the second states a countrary conclusion that is the main conclusion of the argument.
C The first provides evidence in support of the main conclusion of the argument; the second states that conclusion.
D The first describes the circumstance that the argument as a whole seeks to explain; the second gives the explanation that the argument seeks to establish.
E The first describes the circumstance that the argument as a whole seeks to explain; the second provides evidence in support of the explanation that the argument seeks to establish.
正确答案
推理类型:
前提:several of a bank's executives have been buying shares in their own bank,
直接结论1: top executives evidently have faith in the bank's financial soundness.
or
直接结论2: corporate executives have been nown to buy shares in their own company in calculated attempt to dispel negative rumors
最终结论: the worry of the impending financial collapse is wrong.
这是我想的解释,为什么A对D不对?大家看看能解释的同吗?
为什么D不对呢,因为第二个BF是不能得到最终结论的,它是反最终结论的。为什么A对呢,如果按照第一种引申义,the first BF 加第一种引申义是支持最终结论的,而第二个BF恰巧又是质疑前提对结论的支持的。
Depositors get confidence again because of the top executives of the bank buy shares of their own bank.
Top executives of banks buys shares on purpose: to dispel the rumor instead of being confidence of the bank.
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Sorry that I can't type Chinese.