【每日逻辑练习第二季】【1-3】

二楼往下掉

1.
（1）计时45s
（2）逻辑链
Primes
<1> There is relatively little room for growth in the overall carpet market, which is tied to the size of the population.
<2> Most who purchase carpet do so only once or twice, first in their twenties or thirties, and then perhaps again in their fifties or sixties.
Conclusion：
As the population ages, companies producing carpet will be able to gain market share in the carpet market only through purchasing competitors, and not through more aggressive marketing.
（3）猜测
<1> 有很多人移民到这个地方
<2> 这是一个旅游城市，有很多游客会购买，也就是说当地居民并不是唯一的消费者
我的答案：C
正确答案：D
今天实在是不清醒了，明儿来好好分析下。。。

2.
（1）计时45s
（2）逻辑链
plan：
<1> Establish giant floating seaweed farms in the oceans.
<2> when the seaweed plants die, they will be disposed of by being burned for fuel
Goal:
Remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
（3）猜测
<1> plants的燃烧会不会又产生carbon dioxide

3.
（1）计时：45s
（2）逻辑链
Jennifer：
Background：
Video rental outlets in Centerville together handled 10,000 fewer video rentals in 1994 than in 1993.
Primes：
The first and only video rental outlet in the area that, in addition to renting videos, also sold them cheaply
Conclusion：
The decline in rentals was probably due almost entirely to the February 1994 opening of Videorama
Brad：
Primes：
The decline was on the order of 10,000 rentals. Yet Videorama sold only 4,000 videos in 1994.
Conclusion：
There must be another explanation.
（3）猜测
<1> 人们互相借，而不从租借公司租借，所以虽然只卖了4000，但是租借减少了10000
<2> 有竞争

4.
（1）计时：45s
（2）逻辑链
MW：
Primes：
DW’s new wine ha the similar bottle with the MW’s.
conclusion：
It is likely that many customers intending to buy our wine will mistakenly buy theirs instead
DW:
Primes:
The label on DW is gold colored, but not the MW’s
Conclusion:
The two bottles can be readily distinguished
（3）猜测
<1> 商标太小看不见
<2> 很多人是通过瓶子来识别MW的，认为瓶子是MW的标志

5.
（1）计时：好久好久都没看懂
（2）由于没看懂，所以翻译了一下，不过貌似翻译的也不太对。。。
翻译：
对于订阅者的调查：30%的商品订单是由35岁以下的杂志订阅者提出的，这些订单是回应去年的广告的
对于广告者的调查：大多的订单是响应去年广告订单来自于35岁以下的人
我的答案：C
正确答案：E
没看懂题目，有待认真分析！！！

adriana2011

1）38S
2）premise:1) Most who purchase carpet do so only
once or twice;——There is relatively little room for growth in the
overall carpet market2
  Conclusion: gain market share ——〉through purchasing competitors, and not
through more aggressive marketing.
3）选：D 在DE之间犹豫了半天
A: Most of the major carpet producers还干点别的什么market相关的事情，无关
B：有support原文前提的感觉
C: last ten years 时间范围错，而且原文说的是market share
E: carpet market的一些特点 irrelevant


【逻辑链】
2.
Scientists are discussing ways to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by increasing the amount that is absorbed by plant life.  One plan to accomplish this is to establish giant floating seaweed farms in the oceans.  When the seaweed plants die, they will be disposed of by being burned for fuel.
Which of the following, if true, would indicate the most serious weakness in the plan above?
-- PREP07 CR1 NO.9
1) 46s
2) establish giant floating seaweed farms in the oceans is a effective plan——〉remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
additional information：seaweed plants die， disposed of by being burned for fuel
3）选：B
A: Some areas of ocean in the Southern Hemisphere 无关
B：该方法在reduce Carbon dioxide的同时，又有可能导致carbon dioxide增加
C：some people will be reluctant to无关
D：一个关于plant life absorbed carbon dioxide的数据，至少说明该方法还是有效的，无法weaken结论
E：farming哪种东西make more money，无关

3.
1）38s
2) J: because Videorama (sold/rent)——video rents reduced 10000 from 1993 to 1994 in Centerville
  B: V-outlets sales only 4000——there must other reasons
3) 选A
A: rent多，所以说明可能是sales 4000不能说明实质问题
B: two new outlets. 超出范围
C:V-outlests 采取的促销措施,irrelevant
D/E：people的行为习惯，无关

4.
1）37s
2) MW: DW new wine, similar bottle with us——customer would mistaken
DW: not so : gold colors label is different
3)key: D
(A) irrelevant
(B)  a little strenthen
(C) irrelevant
(D) golden lable can not let consumer differentiate the two brands. Correct choice
(E)irrelevant


5.
1)50s
2) 晕晕
3）
(A) never ordered merchandise  -原文无
(B) Among subscribers to Systems, the proportion …lower last year than it is now.-原文无此比较
(C)  与原文信息相反
(D) the average dollar amount  原文无

isa0709

3. There is relatively little room for growth in the
overall carpet market, which is tied to the size of the
population. Most who purchase carpet do so only
once or twice, first in their twenties or thirties, and
then perhaps again in their fifties or sixties. Thus as
the population ages, companies producing carpet
will be able to gain market share in the carpet market
only through purchasing competitors, and not
through more aggressive marketing.
Which one of the following, if true, casts the most
doubt on the conclusion above?
--BIBLE WEAKEN NO.3
(A) Most of the major carpet producers market
other floor coverings as well.                          没有削断逻辑链
(B) Most established carpet producers market
several different brand names and varieties,
and there is no remaining niche in the
market for new brands to fill.                        某种程度上是支持非削弱
(C) Two of the three mergers in the industry’s last
ten years led to a decline in profits and
revenues for the newly merged companies.         某种程度上是支持，加强竞争的白热化
(D) Price reductions, achieved by cost-cutting in
production, by some of the dominant firms
in the carpet market are causing other
producers to leave the market altogether.           竞争者减少，与结论方向相反，削弱，注意此      
选项里有隐含的逻辑链
(E) The carpet market is unlike most markets in
that consumers are becoming increasingly
resistant to new patterns and styles.                没看到最后一行，只看到consumers  
Increasingly, 此选项既不削弱也不支持
计时：1.26
Premise: people purchase carpet only once or twice
Conclusion: people ages, carpet producer gain market share only through purchasing competitors not through more aggressive marketing.
答案预测: there are other methods to gain market share other than purchasing competitors. for example, new category to age people or push frequent generation change on carpet
E/D

emmasy

1.
premise:there is little room for the growth in the carpet market, since most consumers buy once or twice in their whole lives.
conclusion:carpet company can get market share only by purchasing competitors, not by agrressive marketing.
A.weaken
B.irrevelant
C.irrevelant
D.support
E.support

jetyxo

1 premise: carpet market is tied to the population ages, people only by twice in their age
 conclusion:to extend market share, company can only through purchasing competitors ,not aggressive marketing
  weaken  validity:may be there is other way rather than purchasing competitors to extend market share
 A B C Eirrelevant, D is the answer, company also can get more market share through reducing price to make other competitors out of the market.

2 premise 1: increasing the amount of carbon dioxids absorbed by plant can reduce carbon dioxide
  premise 2: establish  seeweeds farms which will be burn after die
  conclusion: establish  seeweeds farms  will be effect in reducing carbon dioxides
  weaken: weather burning the seeweeds will release more carbon dioxids than they absorbed  ----> B

3\J :video rentals decline more than 10000because  a new rental shop opened this year,which also sell 4000videos to people
  M:there is other reason for the decline
  weaken M, suppot J,the decline is due to the new shop selling 4000 videos--->E, give a reason why 4000 videos result to 10000 decline in video rental

4\ M: new wine will compete with our wine because their bottles look like ours
   D: no , the label is different
   weaken D: may be people will not pay attention to this litter difference---> D

5\ Finding of a magazine subscriber:30%peopel make orders by the ad. are under 35
   Finding of the advertisement company: most of people make orders by the ad. are under 35
  answer: there is a gap between 30% and most
  reason:may be they surveyed different people --->E

bet

六月五日 【1-3】
1.    39”
BG:Most who purchase carpet do so only once or twice, first in their twenties or thirties, and
then perhaps again in their fifties or sixties.
P:The population is aging
C:companies will gain market share only through purchasing competitors, and not through more aggressive marketing.
推测：aging population means more purchase in people’s fifties or sixties
选D ABCE无关

2  B
3  E
4  D
5  E

今天时间实在太紧，马上断网了，仓促看了。。。。

penguinsdz

6.07+【1-3】

1. There is relatively little room for growth in the overall carpet market, which is tied to the size of the population. Most who purchase carpet do so only once or twice, first in their twenties or thirties, and then perhaps again in their fifties or sixties. Thus as the population ages, companies producing carpet will be able to gain market share in the carpet market only through purchasing competitors, and not through more aggressive marketing.

Which one of the following, if true, casts the most doubt on the conclusion above?
(A) Most of the major carpet producers market other floor coverings as well.
(B) Most established carpet producers market several different brand names and varieties, and there is no remaining niche in the market for new brands to fill.
(C) Two of the three mergers in the industry’s last ten years led to a decline in profits and revenues for the newly merged companies.
(D) Price reductions, achieved by cost-cutting in production, by some of the dominant firms in the carpet market are causing other producers to leave the market altogether.
(E) The carpet market is unlike most markets in that consumers are becoming increasingly. patterns and
Background Information:
There is relatively little room for growth in the overall carpet market, which is tied to the size of the population.
Premise:
Most people who purchase carpet first in their 20 or 30, and then again in their 50 or 60.
Conclusion:
Thus companies producing carpet will be able to gain market share in the carpet market only through purchasing competitors and not through more aggressive marketing.

推测(Prephrase: mentally formulate your answer to the question stem)：

The companies producing carpet can gain market share in the carpet market not only through purchasing competitors.

选项分析：选D



2. Scientists are discussing ways to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by increasing the amount that is absorbed by plant life. One plan to accomplish this is to establish giant floating seaweed farms in the oceans. When the seaweed plants die, they will be disposed of by being burned for fuel.
Which of the following, if true, would indicate the most serious weakness in the plan above?
(A) Some areas of ocean in the Southern Hemisphere do not contain sufficient nutrients to support large seaweed farms.
(B) When a seaweed plant is burned, it releases an amount of carbon dioxide comparable to the amount it has absorbed in its lifetime.
(C) Even if seaweed farms prove effective, some people will be reluctant to switch to this new fuel.
(D) Each year about seven billion tons of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere but only about five billion tons are absorbed by plant life.
(E) Seaweed farms would make more money by farming seaweed to sell as nutritional supplements than
Background Information:
Scientists are discussing ways to remove excess CO2 from the atmosphere by increasing the amount that is absorbed by plant life.
Premise:
One plan is to establish giant floating seaweed farms in the oceans.

Conclusion:
The seaweed farms can absorb the CO2, and they will be disposed of by being burned for fuel after they die.

推测(Prephrase: mentally formulate your answer to the question stem)：

Fuel burning produces CO2.

选项分析：选B



3. Jennifer: Video rental outlets in Centerville together handled 10,000 fewer video rentals in 1994 than in 1993. The decline in rentals was probably due almost entirely to the February 1994 opening of Videorama, the first and only video rental outlet in the area that, in addition to renting videos, also sold them cheaply.
Brad: There must be another explanation: as you yourself said, the decline was on the order of 10,000 rentals. Yet Videorama sold only 4,000 videos in 1994.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the force of the objection that Brad presents to Jennifer's explanation?
(A) In 1994 Videorama rented out more videos than it sold.
(B) In 1994 two new outlets that rent but that do not sell videos opened in Centerville.
(C) Most of the video rental outlets in Centerville rent videos at a discount on certain nights of the week.
(D) People often buy videos of movies that they have previously seen in a theater.
(E) People who own videos frequently loan them to their friends.
Background Information:
Video rental outlets in Centerville handled 10000 fewer video rentals in 1994 than in 1993. Videorama is the first and only video rental outlet in the area that, in addition to renting videos, also sold them cheaply.
Conclusion:
Jennifer: The decline in rentals was due to the February 1994 opening of Videorama.

Brad: There must be another explanation: The decline was on the order of 10000 rentals; however, Videorama sold only 4000 videos in 1994.
选项分析：选E



4. Mourdet Winery: Danville Winery's new wine was introduced to compete with our most popular wine, which is sold in a distinctive tall, black bottle. Danville uses a similar bottle. Thus, it is likely that many customers intending to buy our wine will mistakenly buy theirs instead.
Danville Winery: Not so. The two bottles can be readily distinguished: the label on ours, but not on theirs, is gold colored.
Which of the following, if true, most undermines Danville Winery's response?
(A) Gold is the background color on the label of many of the wines produced by Danville Winery.
(B) When the bottles are viewed side by side, Danville Winery's bottle is perceptibly taller than Mourdet Winery's.
(C) Danville Winery, unlike Mourdet Winery, displays its wine's label prominently in advertisements.
(D) It is common for occasional purchasers to buy a bottle of wine on the basis of a general impression of the most obvious feature of the bottle.
(E) Many popular wines are sold in bottles of a standard design.
Background Information:
DW’s new wine was introduced to compete with MW’s most popular wine, which is sold in a distinctive tall, black bottle.
Premise:
DW uses a similar bottle.
Conclusion:

MW: It is likely that many customers intending to buy our wine will mistakenly buy DW’s instead.
DW: The two bottles can be readily distinguished, this is because the label on ours is gold colored.

推测(Prephrase: mentally formulate your answer to the question stem)：
Customers usually can’t see the unobvious feature at all.

选项分析：选D



5. Finding of a survey of Systems magazine subscribers: Thirty percent of all merchandise orders placed by subscribers in response to advertisements in the magazine last year were placed by subscribers under age thirty-five.

Finding of a survey of advertisers in Systems magazine: Most of the merchandise orders placed in response to advertisements in Systems last year were placed by people under age thirty-five.
For both of the findings to be accurate, which of the following must be true?
(A) More subscribers to Systems who have never ordered merchandise in response to advertisements in the magazine are age thirty-five or over than are under age thirty-five.
(B) Among subscribers to Systems, the proportion who are under age thirty-five was considerably lower last year than it is now.
(C) Most merchandise orders placed in response to advertisements in Systems last year were placed by Systems subscribers over age thirty-five.
(D) Last year, the average dollar amount of merchandise orders placed was less for subscribers under age thirty-five than for those age thirty-five or over.
(E) Last year many people who placed orders for merchandise in response to advertisements in Systems were not subscribers to the magazine.

Background Information:
A survey of subscribers: 30% of all orders placed by subscribers were placed by subscribers under age 35.

A survey of advertisers: most of the orders (假设70%) placed were placed by people under age 35.

推测(Prephrase: mentally formulate your answer to the question stem)：
Many orders (假设40%) placed by people who were not subscribers.
选项分析：选E

LuckyYolandaLi

今天我做题感觉不确定的地方有好多。。。

1.
1）计时：80s
2）逻辑链：
Premise: Most who purchase carpet do so only once or twice.
Intermediate conclusion: There is relatively little room for growth in the overall carpet market, which is tied to the size of the population.
Conclusion: companies producing carpet will be able to gain market share in the carpet market only through purchasing competitors, and not through more aggressive marketing.
3）推测：文章的推理我没太理解，所以没有想出合理的推测。。。
4）选项分析：选D
A: Irrelevant.
B: 貌似有点strengthen.
C: D: E: 我理解得不好。。。


2.
1）计时：50s
2）逻辑链：
Premise: Scientists are discussing ways to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by increasing the amount that is absorbed by plant life.
Conclusion: One plan to accomplish this is to establish giant floating seaweed farms in the oceans. When the seaweed plants die, they will be disposed of by being burned for fuel.
3）推测：
Burning the dead seaweed plants will produce carbon dioxide.
4）选项分析：选B
A: Not the most serious.
B: Correct.
C: Not the most serious.
D: Irrelevant.
E: Not weakness.


3.
1）计时：64s
2）逻辑链：
这种先阐述一个人观点再有另一个人反对的情况，我不知道怎么写逻辑链。。。
3）推测：
Videorama, selling videos cheaply, attracted many consumers who not only bought videos but also rent videos there.
4）选项分析：选A（正确答案：E）
A: Correct.（我原来的理解是Videodrama卖的video便宜，所以卖出去的多，那既然选项说租出的比卖出的还多，所以说明很多人在Videodrama租video，这些人中可能有很多是以前在Centerville租的，所以如此，在Centerville租video的人就更减少了。但既然我答案选错了，说明可能是我理解错了，但我还是不太明白是哪里错了。。。是没有E好吗？还是根本就不对？）
B: Strengthen Jennifer’s explanation.
C: Irrelevant.
D: Irrelevant.
E: Irrelevant. （看完答案后，根据答案自己理解：Videodrama卖video便宜，所以很多人不租而直接在这买，这些买了的人又把买的video借给朋友，所以他们的朋友也不用去租video了，所以Centerville租出的video就减少了）


4.
1）计时：41s
2）逻辑链：
（同上题）
3）推测：
The customers usually don’t pay attention to the label.
4）选项分析：选D
A: Irrelevant.
B: Strengthen Danville Winery’s response.
C: Strengthen Danville Winery’s response.
D: Correct.
E: Irrelevant.


5.
1）计时：60s
2）逻辑链：
Premise:Thirty percent of all merchandise orders placed by subscribers in response to advertisements in the magazine last year were placed by subscribers under age thirty-five.
Most of the merchandise orders placed in response to advertisements in Systems last year were placed by people under age thirty-five.
3）推测：
这道题我理解不太好，没有推理出来。。。
4）选项分析：选E
ABCD不能从文中推出来。

angelafeng

1. 43s

Background information：There is relatively little room for growth in the overall carpet market, which is tied to the size of the population.

Premise：Most who purchase carpet do so only once or twice, first in their twenties or thirties, and then perhaps again in their fifties or sixties.

Conclusion：Thus as the population ages, companies producing carpet will be able to gain market share in the carpet market only through purchasing competitors, and not through more aggressive marketing.

Prephrase：（weaken）companies producing carpet can gain market share in the market through some other ways other than through purchasing competitors.



(A) Most of the major carpet producers market
other floor coverings as well.-----------Other floor coverings have litter relationship with carpet.
(B) Most established carpet producers market
several different brand names and varieties,
and there is no remaining niche in the
market for new brands to fill.-----------that has no bearing on the conclusion of the argument.
(C) Two of the three mergers in the industry’s last
ten years led to a decline in profits and
revenues for the newly merged companies.------------ the above argument has no idea about the mergers.
(D) Price reductions, achieved by cost-cutting in
production, by some of the dominant firms
in the carpet market are causing other
producers to leave the market altogether.--------------suggest a way for companies to gain market share without purchasing competitors, thereby attacking the conditional statement given in the stimulus.

(E) The carpet market is unlike most markets in
that consumers are becoming increasingly
resistant to new patterns and styles.-------------CORRECT-----------strengthen the argument



2.28s

Premise: One plan to accomplish this is to establish giant floating seaweed farms in the oceans.  When the seaweed plants die, they will be disposed of by being burned for fuel.

Conclusion : Scientists think that this is a way to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by increasing the amount that is absorbed by plant life.

Prephrase: (weakness) burn the dead seaweed plants for fuel will produce more co2 into the atmosphere.

Answer: B



3.44S

Premise: Video rental outlets in Centerville together handled 10,000 fewer video rentals in 1994 than in 1993.  

Jennifer’s explanation: Due to the February 1994 opening of Videorama, the first and only video rental outlet in the area that, in addition to renting videos, also sold them cheaply.

Brad’s refute:  Videorama sold only 4,000 videos in 1994.

Prephrase: (weaken Brad) people always share the videos with their friends.

Answer: E



4.34s

Premise:

MW---Danville Winery's new wine was introduced to compete with MW’s most popular wine, which is sold in a distinctive tall, black bottle.  Danville uses a similar bottle.  It is likely that many customers intending to buy MW’s wine will mistakenly buy DW’s instead.

DW--Objection：  Not so.  The two bottles can be readily distinguished:  the label on ours, but not on theirs, is gold colored.

Prephrase:( weaken DW) many buyers don’t have a look at the label of the wine bottles when they buy wine.

Answer: D



5.37S

Premise 1:  Thirty percent of all merchandise orders placed by subscribers in response to advertisements in the magazine last year were placed by subscribers under age thirty-five.

Premise 2:  Most of the merchandise orders placed in response to advertisements in Systems last year were placed by people under age thirty-five.

Prephrase: (conclusion) Most merchandise orders placed by subscribers in response to ads in the magazine last year were placed by subscribers under age 35.

Answer:C E

(C) Most merchandise orders placed in response to advertisements in Systems last year were placed by Systems subscribers over age thirty-five.------------under age 35

呵呵牙

昨天有事耽误了~今天补上~我一定要坚持！！！

1. 33s
Background Information: There is relatively little room for growth in the overall carpet market, which is tied to the size of the population.
Premise: People buy carpet do so only once or twice, first in their twenties or thirties, then again in fifties or sixties.
Conclusion: Company producing carpet will be able to gain market share only through buying competitors, and not through more aggressive marking
Prephrase: Even though people seldom buy carpet, customer’s also important key to make company gain market share; buying competitors’ carpet is not the only way to gain market share.
选D
A (major carpet producers, coverings)——irrelevant
B (several different brand names and varieties)——support conclusion
C (company mergers)——irrelevant
E (carpet market different)——support conclusion

2. 32s
Background Information: Scientists discuss ways to reduce carbon dioxide from atmosphere.
Premise: One plan to finish this is to establish seaweed farms in the oceans.
Conclusion: Carbon dioxide will be disposed after the seaweed plants die.
Prephrase: Seaweed plants can die and grow again; to burn the death of seaweed plants also can produce carbon dioxide.
选B

3. 45s     ！！！求解释，我不明白是weaken谁的观点？？？（最近脑子不太好使……）
Premise: <J>Rental decline because the February 1994 opening of Videorama and cheap price to rental.
             <B>The decline was on the order, but Videorama sold only 4,000 video in 1994.
Conclusion: Video rental outlets in Centerville handled decline in 1994 than in 1993
Prephrase: Videorama sold less but they make more money from selling videos.
选E

4. 38s
<M>remise: Our popular wine is tall, black bottle. D use a similar bottle.
Conclusion: Customers want to buy ours, but make mistake to buy D’s wine.
<D>remise: Our bottle has label that is gold colored.
Conclusion: Customers can be distinguished
Prephrase: Label is confusing to people.
选D

5. 40s
<subscribers>remise: Under 35 age, 30% of orders placed by subscribers in response to advertisements.
<advertisers> Premise: Under 35 age, most of orders placed in response to advertisements in Systems.
Prephrase: Under 35 age, subscribers and advertisers are seldom in response in System magazine.
选E