OG-33-211

LES

Some economists have suggested that giving away free shares would provide a needed acceleration of the privatization process. Yet they miss Thomas Paine’s point that “what we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly.” In order for the far-ranging benefits of individual ownership to be achieved by owners, companies, and countries, employees and other individuals must make their own decisions to buy, and they must commit some of their own resources to the choice.－节选部分题目相关内容。

211.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the privatization process in the United Kingdom?

(A) It depends to a potentially dangerous degree on individual ownership of shares.
(B) It conforms in its most general outlines to Thomas Paine’s prescription for business ownership.
(C) It was originally conceived to include some giving away of free shares.
(D) It has been successful, even though privatization has failed in other countries.（E）
(E) It is taking place more slowly than some economists suggest is necessary.

OG对B选项的解释是：
Choice B is incorrect because the sale of shares to employees was optional rather than a part of the actual privation process.
看不懂这段解释同B选项有什么关系？谢谢！

gzq1

因为Thomas Paine’s point that “what we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly.”

所以OG的解释是说:股票不是PART OF PRIVATIZATION而是OPTIOANL的,就是说和“what we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly"

不太CONFORM

LES

谢谢gzq1回复。可是偶还是不太理解。

文中引用Paine的话是用来反对一些经济学家的观点－股票免费配送，由此推出Paine的观点－股票不应免费配送，这不正符合原文中说的私有化的过程中股票是出售的？

爱维的天

这个答案﹙B﹚有没人可以再解释一下，怎么看都好象和本文没办法关连起来.

spotato

我做这道题目的时候很快就排除了B。文中引用Thomas的话作为哲理性原则出现。Thomas可能是某个哲人，他在说“太容易得到的东西往往不会珍惜”的时候，目的应该不是为了回答“送股份还是卖股份”的问题吧。他可能都不知道他的这句话会被后人引用来讨论私有化的问题。

因此，"Thomas P's prescription for business ownership" 就显得比较荒谬了。

agk99

文中引用Paine的话是用来反对一些经济学家的观点－股票免费配送，由此推出Paine的观点－股票不应免费配送，这不正符合原文中说的私有化的过程中股票是出售的？

LES的問題看下面這句話就懂了

Some economists have suggested that giving away free shares would provide a needed acceleration of the privatization process.

這是假設用法，句面意思是說，如果發放免費股票，就能加速私有化的進行，但實際上並沒有發免費股票，也沒有加速進行，作者引述Paine的話目的就是反駁Some economists的看法。

所以結論:英國企業實際私有化的過程比部分經濟學家認為的慢...

LES

agk99，谢谢！你的分析非常清楚！

EASYSUMMER

还是不太理解，有没有大侠在解释一下。！！！

EASYSUMMER

不好意思，再问一句，不理解 OG对 B的解释

“ B is incorrect because the sale of shares to employees was optional rather than a part of th actual privatization process.

wangyu73cn

以下是引用EASYSUMMER在2005-6-3 1:05:00的发言：

不好意思，再问一句，不理解 OG对 B的解释

“ B is incorrect because the sale of shares to employees was optional rather than a part of th actual privatization process.

我也不大懂。但有几点考虑：

1、B选项中提及了Thomas Paine’s prescription ，这是针对the sale of shares to employees 而言的，他们的关系密切。

2、如果说，the sale of shares to employees was optional rather than a part of th actual privatization process，即在私有化过程中，内部免费股的发放行为可有可无，那么Thomas Paine’s prescription 就和privatization process的关系不一定密切了。这有点像断桥削弱。但我不太明白，在文章中从哪里能反映出optional的意思呢？

3、如果为断桥，B选项中所说的privatization process conforms in its most general outlines to Thomas Paine’s prescription 也就难以成立了。

4、私有化在文章中的定义是在文章的前面提到的，是指向私营公司出售国有企业。从这一定义中，确实看不出私有化的整体进程以T.Paine的观点为most general outlines。它可能是指针之一，但谈不上most general one.

5、再泛化些，在国有大中型企业的私有化进程中，是否讲求T.paine的观点往往不是最关切的指针。即便企业被贱卖到如同免费一般，私有化的进程还是被大力推行了。

说得比较罗嗦，请指正。