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 nformation 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 ?
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
D 是支持选项。D说的是目前使用AT的人群是---最有可能----得到新技术的人群。most likely 说明的是一个未来的趋势,即这波现在正在使用AT的人群是未来最有可能得到新技术的人群。所以是支持。如果D选项说目前使用AT的人群也是正在接触新技术的人群,那么是削弱。关键是大家对D选项的句子意思的理解偏差。D到底是说正在用AT的人群未来最有可能接触到新技术呢?还是这群人在使用AT的同时已经是接触到新技术了?
“无关选项”的确是万金油B中说这些人不能掌握这些信息,所以旅行社才有存在的必要,旅行社的传统职能之一就是,organizing信息,然后让客户更容易得到自己想要的。 are most likely to gain access to...是最有可能获得最新信息技术的人,并没说在她们使用旅行社之前就已经获取了最新信息技术。