请教OG-88,og-89

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In many corporations, employees are being replaced by automated equipment in order to save money. However, many workers who lose their jobs to automation will need government assistance to survive, and the same corporations that are laying people off will eventually pay for that assistance through increased taxes unemployment insurance payments.

88. The author is arguing

B) replacing people through automation to reduce production costs will result in increases of other costs to corporations.

89.Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the author's argument?

a)Many workers who have already lost their jobs to automation have been unable to find new jobs.

b)Many corporations that have failed to automate have seen their profits decline.

c)Taxes and unemployment insurance are paid also by corporations that are not automating.

d)Most of the new jobs created by automation pay less than the jobs eliminated by automation did.

e)The initial investment in machinery for automation is often greater than the short-term savings in labor costs.

88题问的是作者争论的焦点，答案是b, 厂房没有争得实际的经济效益

89题问支持，那也应该是支持争论的焦点：经济效益才是呀，怎么又跑到担心工人找不到活干呢？答案a,. 这道题目到底什么是main point? 我总觉得是经济效益。请赐教，谢谢。

philikittist

作者的观点是：机器取代人－更多人失业－政府要帮助失业者－帮助的资金来自于增加的税金和失业保险，所以企业通过自动化得到成本好处，但会增加别的支出。

把a取非：如果因为使用automated equipment而失业的工人都能再找到工作，政府也就不用提供assistance了，也就不用增加tax和insurance了，作者就得不出结论“replacing people through automation to reduce production costs will result in increases of other costs to corporations.”

a取非削弱，所以a是加强

clelia

借个地方顶一下，为什为选E不是support呢?

OG上是说Choice E is inappropriate because it concerns short-term rather than long-term results of automation.

那如果把E的short-term改成long-term，E算是一个support吗??

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clelia

nobody knows???

Please help~Thanks

p200002

如果文中没有具体指ST还是LT,而答案中出现的话,我以为此答案不恰当.所以E是不对的.

而今迈步从头越

I think "eventually pay for" means long term. So D is inappropriate. Q89 I chosed D. Now I have no question about A, but don't understand what's the meaning of  explanation "Since the author tacitly grants that, initially, automation will cut costs, the detail geiven in D provides us added support". So what's added support?

skidals

刚看到这里，同问。

carina

added 有further的意思，这里added support 就是进一步支持，没有strenghten

dadada007

以下是引用philikittist在2004-4-5 22:27:00的发言：

作者的观点是：机器取代人－更多人失业－政府要帮助失业者－帮助的资金来自于增加的税金和失业保险，所以企业通过自动化得到成本好处，但会增加别的支出。

把a取非：如果因为使用automated equipment而失业的工人都能再找到工作，政府也就不用提供assistance了，也就不用增加tax和insurance了，作者就得不出结论“replacing people through automation to reduce production costs will result in increases of other costs to corporations.”

a取非削弱，所以a是加强

考试的时候怎么知道哪些选项应该取非啊，MM这个。。。。对于取非题的，有哪些规律么？请教请教.....大家

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蓝夕叶子

还是og的解释：（og的解释搞的我真晕）

By saying that costs associated with unemployment C weakens the argument.

看不出来哪里是weaken的，请指教。

c)Taxes and unemployment insurance are paid also by corporations that are not automating.

觉得是irrelevant的。因为题目中并没有提到corporations that are not automating的呀！！

看得头晕，请大家指教。。。