GWD-6-Q38，请帮忙分析

特强薄荷

Three large companies and seven small companies currently manufacture a product with potential military applications.If the government regulates the industry, it will institute a single set of manufacturing specifications to which all ten companies will have to adhere.In this case, therefore,since none of the seven small companies can afford to convert their production lines to a new set of manufacturing specifications, only the three large companies will be able to remain in business.



Which of the following is an assumption on which the author’s argument relies?

1. None of the three large companies will go out of business if the government does not regulate the manufacture of the product.
   
   
2. It would cost more to convert the production lines of the small companies to a new set of manufacturing specifications than it would to convert the production lines of the large companies.
   
3. Industry lobbyists will be unable to dissuade the government from regulating the industry.
   
   
4. Assembly of the product produced according to government manufacturing specifications would be more complex than current assembly procedures.
   
   
5. None of the seven small companies currently manufactures the product to a set of specifications that would match those the government would institute if the industry were to be regulated.
   
   答案是E，不明白为什么。文中结论已经给出，7个下公司无法承担转换产品的费用，只有大公司可以。需要假设。但是E说如果一开始就有小公司已经符合新规定，那么它没有必要Convert也就不存在能否Afford的问题了，这不是反对了嘛？
   
   
   
   
   

sdcar2010

What the small companies could not afford is the cost of converting their production lines to a new set of manufacturing specifications.  It has nothing to do with what their current manufacturing specifications are. Before the announcement of the final manufacturing specifications, no one knows for sure if the current specifications used by the small companies meet the standard.

特强薄荷

还是没想明白，能说通俗点嘛

sdcar2010

From the stimulus, the author PRESUMED that the small companies have to convert their production line in order to meet the new manufacturing specification.  That's why the author concluded that only the big companies can survive.  What if the small companies have already met the new manufacture specification with their current production line?  This will obliviate the need for such costly conversion for the small companies.

buffonjuventus

通俗点说就是作者assume7个小公司目前的状态没有一个符合新的spec的。文中只说了7个小矮人负担不起转换的费用，可是他们如果已经达标了则无需转换。

gkast

lz是不是对E理解错了?
E是说，七个小公司现时所生产的产品标准，没有一个是符合政府要立例达到的标准。所以它们才要换生产线，但它们却又负胆不起。

cici_head2A

sdcar2010 发表于 2010-11-6 20:23
What the small companies could not afford is the cost of converting their production lines to a new  ...

解释的很好啊~~