请教gwd-2-14

bluevironika

以下是引用我爱宝宝在2004-8-8 7:46:00的发言：

Q14:

Smithtown University’s fund-raisers succeeded in getting donations from 80 percent of the potential donors they contacted.  This success rate, exceptionally high for university fund-raisers, does not indicate that they were doing a good job.  On the contrary, since the people most likely to donate are those who have donated in the past, good fund-raisers constantly try less-likely prospects in an effort to expand the donor base.  The high success rate shows insufficient canvassing effort.

Which of the following, if true, provides more support for the argument?

1. Smithtown University’s fund-raisers were successful in their contacts with potential donors who had never given before about as frequently as were fund-raisers for other universities in their contacts with such people.
   



2. This year the average size of the donations to Smithtown University from new donors when the university’s fund-raisers had contacted was larger than the average size of donations from donors who had given to the university before.
   



3. This year most of the donations that came to Smithtown University from people who had previously donated to it were made without the university’s fund-raisers having made any contact with the donors.
   



4. The majority of the donations that fund-raisers succeeded in getting for Smithtown University this year were from donors who had never given to the university before.
   



5. More than half of the money raised by Smithtown University’s fund-raisers came from donors who had never previously donated to the university.

这题我选了c，手上有两种答案a、c，请nn帮助确认一下解释。

选C。题目中说，成功的募捐人不、会尝试去扩大募捐的基础，应该是和过去的主动联系。而A 是无关比较。C说另外的20%的人是他们所没有联系过的，可知有的没联系的没有捐款。所以说他们没有高效工作，如果联系的话会更有效果。

msfox

选A，C无关。题目中是捐款人数的比例，C中是具体金额。需要额外Assumption才能架桥。

活在当下

感觉C是无关选项，但A有点牵强。

icekun

c.80%潜在的人捐款了，文章中说，这不足以说明他们募捐者厉害，那么加强就是

c中得80%中有许多以前捐过的但是没有签合同的人。

swlfx

经过牛牛们的开导，发现A确实是对的。

cloudwind

看了半天覺得還是不懂，很直觀的還是認為(C) 對



選(A)者和選(C)者對以下句子的解讀不同
原文結論是 This success rate, exceptionally high for university fund-raisers, does not indicate that they were doing a good job.



選(A)者傾向將 This success
rate, exceptionally high for university fund-raisers, does not indicate
that they were doing a good job.解讀為 "80% success rate非good job的評斷標準"



(laywer1：该题的结论是：80%的成功率不能说明他们工作做得好（不是：他们工作做不好）。即割断80%成功率对工作做得好的证明力。至于最后一句话是一个补充，因为该句很模糊。）



而不是像(C)支持者所認為的"80% success rate不代表S學校做的好(表示S學校做的不好)". 最後一句The high success rate shows insufficient canvassing effort.反而加強了這個意思。



indicate (v) 指示、指出、表示、暗示

show sth, esp by pointing ; suggest the possibility or probability of ; state sth briefly or indirectly



由indicate看來，覺得句意還是像(C)比較正確，不一定要像(A)支持者那樣解讀才對啊？



Please help! Thank you!

joypainter

GWD2-14应选C。 原题说新赠户(donors)太多说明学校的fund-raisers没有努力做老赠户的工作(shows insufficient canvassing effort)，C是搭桥，说这些fr’s 的确根本就没跟这些老赠户联系，让这一点更加明了。A拿fr’s跟别的学校比，是无关的。

dling

i think c is correct.

annding

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我认为解题的重点在于：>>

1）紧紧扣住Argument对于good fund-raisers的定义: good fund-raisers为扩展the donor base坚持不懈地尝试less-likely prospects。（Prospects: the chances of being successful），即发掘那些尚未捐过款的人群——contacts with potential donors who had never given before。>>

2）看看哪个选项提供的条件可以evaluate(support or weaken)>>

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A的条件: S were successful in their contacts as frequently as others——S校effort的成功率与他校相同。>>

这要作为支持选项还缺少一个Assumption，即没有说明S校是否有constantly try the effort.

即便大家有相同的成功概率，如果你try的次数相对少，拉到的new donors还是会比别人少。

本文中成功“率”不能说明任何问题，as frequently as这一说法不能有效地evaluate，既无支持，也无削弱。因此，A选项似是而无关。

再看C给出的条件: most of the donations came from previous donors。

我们不知道除了most的这些donations之外S校拉到多少new donors，即80%的success rate也不能indicate S校到底为expand the donor base做了多少canvassing effort。

–〉直接支持结论说的：This success rate does not indicate that they were doing a good job.

注意点1：结论说的“does not indicate that they were doing a good job —— 80%也不能表示S做得好。”

并不是断言S就做得不好。

注意点2：正确理解选项A中successful in their contacts as frequently as others的含义。

注意点3：不要混淆概念，文章需要evaluate的不是the size of donations或money，而是donors, 或donations.( donors makes donations ; donation是一种action，giving money or sth else)

我看几个选项是：A-无关，B-无关，D-反，E-无关

一正一反三无关，考试中若是碰到此题我会坚持选C.

irisfang

good fundraisers constantly try less-likely prospects in an effort to expand the donor base.

 

这是作者评判是否可以称为good fund raisers的标准，那就是扩大donor base

good raiser->enlarge donor base非常成功  （原命题）

非（enlarge donor base非常成功）-〉不是好的raiser (逆否命题）

现在得出结论不是好的raiser

就是要找到不能很好的enlarge donor base这个证据

C. This year most of the donations that came to Smithtown
                University from people who had previously donated to it were made without the university’s fund-raisers having made any contact with the donors.

c中是说那些以前捐过款今年又捐款的人大部分都是自己来的，这些fund raisers没有和他们接触过

C根本未提及这些fund raiser是否尝试联系新的donor

A中则是说这些raise和其他大学的raiser，在联系新的Donor并说服其捐款上
        成功的概率差不多，因此就是答案