请问feifei网络课堂中1道题

summersmile

feifei 网络课堂第二讲中得第一题：


1. The excessive number of safety regulation that the federal government has placed on industry poses more serious hardships for big businesses than for small ones. Since large companies do everything on a more massive scale, they must alter more complex operations and spend much more money to meet governmental requirements.
Which of the following , if true, would most weaken the argument above?



(A) Small companies are less likely than large companies to have the capital reserves for improvements.
(B) The operation codes are uniform, established without reference to size of company.
(C) Safety regulation codes are uniform, established without reference to size of company.
(D) Large companies typically have more of their profits invested in other businesses than do small companies.
(E) Large companies are in general more likely than small companies to diversify the markets and products.


正确答案是：a


我的问题是：feifei 说B选项是加强，我不明白，觉得是否定了题目中陈述得事实：they must alter more complex operations。我认为D选项加强但不如A明确。



请问大家如何看待其他四个选项？

weiyu

以下是引用coopers在2004-3-24 7:48:00的发言：
嗯, 不看答案选了A,



题干有句话:spend much more money to meet governmental requirements.     A 说因为大公司有钱专门做这个, 小公司就没有了, 所以safety code的实行对小公司影响反而大.

请问这里的improvments就是指实施safty regulation吗？没看出来,　请指点


B,C support. D,E irrelevant.

summersmile

1、我觉得这里the capital reserves for improvements，可能不是仅仅指to meet governmental requirements，即improvements 范围至少大于等于 to meet governmental safety requirements, 知道这点就足以，正如coopers解释A正确


2、我选的就是A, 不明白为什么B是support, B说The operation codes are uniform（相同操作规程）而提干说alter more complex operations （改变更复杂的操作），两者矛盾，B应排除


3、C、support；D、E无关选项