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1/36’’ D Background: because the size of population, the room left for the growth of carpet market is so little. Most people only buy carpet only once or twice through their life. Premise: in order to gain market, the carpet companies only need to buy the competitors, not through the aggressive marketing. Prephrase: what if the consumers are tired of the tedious styles, and turn to the foreign carpet manufacturer? A: whether most of the major carpet producers market other floor coverings is irrelevant to the argument. B: if there is no room for the new brands, it makes sense that purchasing competitors to gain market share, and to market aggressively is not that necessary. This supports the argument, not weakens it. C: if only the newly merged companies suffered loss of revenue, while the companies merged for year kept benefit, the strategy of purchasing competitors works, then ,the argument is supported. D: as many companies faded out from the carpet market, the market will be rearranged, the market will be divided by the dominant firms, there is no need to buy the competitors. The argument is weakened. E: if the consumers are only interested in the old patterns and styles, then the only way to gain market share is to purchase competitors. The argument is supported. 2/39’’ B Background: scientists are trying to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by increasing the amount that is absorbed by plant life. Premise: one proposition is to found immense floating seaweed farms in the oceans, and burn them for fuel when they die. Prephrase: during their growth, the carbon dioxide is also let out, when they are burned, the large amount of carbon dioxide will comes out. A: the atmosphere is a whole body, and incapability will be compensated by the farms in other ocean areas, so it is not the weakness of the plan. B: this outcome signifies that the plan does nothing change to the total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. C: the point is the carbon dioxide, not whether the fuel will be accepted. D: this is irrelevant to the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. E: this does not support or weaken the plan. 3/59’’ E Background: the number of rented videos in 1994 is 10000 fewer than that in 1993. Premise: J said the decline was due to the opening of Videorama, which only provided video rental, but also sold video. B said as Videorama only sold 4000 videos, there must be other explanation to the decline. Prephrase: the sold videos are lent to other people by the consumer, this make the number of people renting videos declines. A: it is paradox to J’s argument. B: this is the other explaination. C: it will promote the video rental, not consistent with the fact. D: it is personal habit, irrelevant to the argument. E: many people are able to borrow videos from their friends, then less people will rent video from the shop. 4/50’’ D Background: D’s new wine was introduced to compete with the most popular wine of another company. Their bottles are alike. Premise: M thinks that customers will mistakenly buy the competitor’s wine. D thinks that the gold colored label on the bottles will make their wine distinguished by the customers. Prephrase: most customers who frequently buy the wines never pay attention to the labels. Both the bottle and the label are similar. A: no comparison, irrelevant. B: the argument is about the label, not the shape of bottles C: this supports the argument, not weakens it. D: If it is true, whether the label is distinguished or not, the consumer will not much realizes that, the label-method is not useful E: irrelevant. 5/E Background: last year, 30% of the merchandise orders in response to Ads were placed by subscribers under age 35, most of the merchandise orders in response to Ads were placed by people under age 35. Prephrase: many non-subscribers under age 35 have placed the merchandise orders to Ads. A: irrelevant B: both the survey figures were in last year, irrelevant. C: conflict to the survey. D: irrelevant E: this is the only explanation |
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