请教OG-88,og-89

wingkim

89.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 and unemployment insurance payments.

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. A

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

Since the author tacitly grants that, initially, automation will cut costs, the detail given in D provides us added support.

关于D的不同理解：

原文在说因为政府不得不帮助失业者生存而使得税收增加和失业保险增加，所以最后工厂并不能节省成本。

D在说自动化产生的工作薪水比非自动化时的工作薪水低，那么工人所得就低，仍然可能存在需要政府帮助，而使得税收增加和失业保险增加，所以虽然工资成本降低最后工厂并不能节省成本。但由于不是失业者，只是困难户，因此并不是原文结论讨论的焦点，所以说D是added support附加的支持——只支持了最终结果没法节省，但不是支持整个讨论“转变导致失业上升使得成本没法节省”。

绝对不会是大家说的有weaken的含义。

不对的地方请指正。

seasnow

借此宝地问个还没明白的问题：OG88属于哪一类题呢？是归纳题吗？

88题的答案B中说到本来是要减少production costs结果增加了other costs。

而89题的D选项OG解释说是个automation will cut costs的added support，那是不是也属于other costs呢？other costs减少了，所以削弱了原题的结论。

leighyao

I think the focus of these two questions is "automation" and extra cost resulted in "unemployment insurance payments". Don't involve other factors in.

89, the answer is A. The sense is "if the guys being laid off could find jobs, there is no extra cost for unemployment insurance burden".

baobaob

以下是引用ring_cheng在2005-6-22 19:15:00的发言：

个人意见：

在原文中，作者已经表述了自动化可以省钱的观点。那么除了原文的这个观点外，在D中又加入了“自动化还可以进一步降低员工成本”，就是一种added support，而这个support是支持“自动化好”这个观点的。

欢迎讨论！

OG中用到Since the author tacitly grants that, initially, automation will cut costs, the detail given in D provides us added support.作者暗含了自动化可以省钱的观点，这个可以从however这个转折词看出，however之后用将来时态说了自动化省钱只是暂时的以后会因为税收和失业保险增加支出。

aborigin

以下是引用baobaob在2006-3-19 8:49:00的发言：

OG中用到Since the author tacitly grants that, initially, automation will cut costs, the detail given in D provides us added support.作者暗含了自动化可以省钱的观点，这个可以从however这个转折词看出，however之后用将来时态说了自动化省钱只是暂时的以后会因为税收和失业保险增加支出。

Disagree,

Since the author tacitly grants that, initially, automation will cut costs, the detail given in D provides us added support

D只是支持了作者隐含的观点（红色部分）

再说，GMAT题目中很少有这么多重推断来解题。

个人观点，Open to discuss

barefootmarmot

赞！理解了，多谢。

天天灿烂

OG中的“D provides us added support”是指“D给了我们一个（支持原文中企业方观点的）支持项”这个意思么？

好绕啊。

leon_ash

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

请教各位，我们在知道正确答案以后，取非，得出正确推理

可是在考试的时候如何快速判断那个选项应该取非？？

这是个很现实的问题，还请牛人指点一二。

neverblue203

我写的比较抽象,多多包涵.

check的关键:

1,作者的观点:自动化短期来讲可以省钱,但是从长期来讲它是不可以省钱.

主要考察的是2:

2,author argument: 自动化从长期来讲是不省钱,因为:他们前期省的钱等于后期支付的tax.

 

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.(支持)

(B) Many corporations that have failed to automate have seen their profits decline.(没提)

(C)Taxes and unemployment insurance are paid also by corporations that are not automating.(weaken)(因为他们前期省的钱>后期支付的tax(其他公司分担费用),自动化从长起来看是省钱.)

(D) Most of the new jobs created by automation pay less than the jobs eliminated by automation did.(自动化是省钱,支持短期观点)(1,强调短期观点)

(E) The initial investment in machinery for automation is often greater than the short-term savings in labor costs.(1,反对短期观点,2,对比不搭配)

feymaggie

请教各位：一直没懂 问题中的 strengthens the author's argument 的argument是什么意思，是作者的论据，还是就相当opinion,作者的观点？