OG12 或OG13 CR 89题，求教！！

jiangjingle

OG12 CR 89 求赐教！！！
89. Since it has become known that several of a bank’s top executives have been buying shares in their own
bank, the bank’s depositors, who had been worried by rumors that the bank faced impending fi nancial collapse,
have been greatly relieved. They reason that, since top executives evidently have faith in the bank’s fi nancial
soundness, those worrisome rumors must be false. Such reasoning might well be overoptimistic（conclusion）, however, since
corporate executives have been known to buy shares in their own company in a calculated attempt
to dispel negative rumors about the company’s health.
In the argument given, the two boldfaced portions play which of the following roles?
(A) The fi rst describes evidence that has been taken as supporting a conclusion; the second gives a reason
for questioning that support.
(B) The fi rst describes evidence that has been taken as supporting a conclusion; the second states a contrary
conclusion that is the main conclusion of the argument.
(C) The fi rst provides evidence in support of the main conclusion of the argument; the second states that
conclusion.
(D) The fi rst describes the circumstance that the argument as a whole seeks to explain; the second gives the
explanation that the argument seeks to establish.
(E) The fi rst describes the circumstance that the argument as a whole seeks to explain; the second provides
evidence in support of the explanation that the argument seeks to establish.

答案选A，我选D。我做这类题的时候一般是先找出Conclusion，我觉得“Such reasoning might well be overoptimistic ” 这句是conclusion，因为这是作者的观点，但是如果按照这样来做为什么A说第一个boldface是支持conclusion的？是不是我找错conclusion了？如果是这样conclusion在哪里？另外D为什么不对？

双色鹿

你找的conclusion没有错~只不过A选项并没有说第一个boldface是支持conclusion的，只是说第一个boldface支持“一个conclusion”，这“一个conclusion”应该是“ the bank’s depositors, who had been worried by rumors that the bank faced impending fi nancial collapse,
have been greatly relieved”
这段文字的结构是，事实1->结论1<-原因1；结论2（反对结论1）<-原因2
这种结构在BF题里面还是挺常见的，很多argument的最终“结论”就是反驳“第一个结论”阿，所以你不能看到conclusion这个词，就默认是这个argument的最终结论

jiangjingle

哦，我明白了，谢谢大神指点

jiangjingle

另外我还有一个地方不懂，第一个boldface如果是像A说的那样是支持一个conclusion，那他是支持哪一个Conclusion？我觉得第一个boldface是一个事实，文章都是围绕它argue的，看不出它是支持哪一方吧？我问这个问题的原因是我做了OG12 CR 79(同OG13 CR 78)，这个题跟89是类似的，但是答案的一个选项明确指明了开头的fact是支持哪一个观点的，但是我跟89一样看不出到底是有支持哪一方的倾向

附：79. In countrieswhere automobile insurance

includescompensation for whiplash injuries

sustained inautomobile accidents, reports of

having sufferedsuch injuries are twice as

frequent as theyare in countries where whiplash

is not covered. Presently, noobjective test for

whiplash exists, so it is true that spurious reports of

whiplash injuries cannot be readily identifi ed.

Nevertheless, these facts do not warrant the

conclusion drawn by some commentators that in the

countries with the higher rates of reported whiplash

injuries, half of the reported cases are spurious.

Clearly, incountries where automobile insurance

does not includecompensation for whiplash,

people often havelittle incentive to report

whiplash injuriesthat they actually have suffered.

In the argument given, the two boldfaced portions play

which of the following roles?

(A) The fi rst is a claim that the argument disputes;

the second is a conclusion that has been based

on that claim.

(B) The fi rst is a claim that has been used to

support a conclusion that the argument accepts;

the second is that conclusion.

(C) The fi rst is evidence that has been used to

support a conclusion for which the argument

provides further evidence; the second is the

main conclusion of the argument.

(D) The fi rst is a fi nding whose implications are at

issue in the argument; the second is a claim

presented in order to argue against deriving

certain implications from that fi nding.

(E) The fi rst is a fi nding whose accuracy is evaluated

in the argument; the second is evidence

presented to establish that the fi nding is

accurate.

jiangjingle

(c） 选项的答案把它纠正为The first had been used to support a conclusion that the argument rejects; 我觉得看不出是支持哪一方吧

EMMALIULIU

你找的conclusion没有错~只不过A选项并没有说第一个boldface是支持conclusion的，只是说第一个boldface支持“一个conclusion”，这“一个conclusion”应该是“ the bank’s depositors, who had been worried by rumors that the bank faced impending fi nancial collapse,
have been greatly relieved”
这段文字的结构是，事实1->结论1<-原因1；结论2（反对结论1）<-原因2
这种结构在BF题里面还是挺常见的，很多argument的最终“结论”就是反驳“第一个结论”阿，所以你不能看到conclusion这个词，就默认是这个argument的最终结论

-- by 会员 双色鹿 (2012/8/12 16:47:24)

同一个argument里面有两个结论互反的情况吗？只有intermediate conclusion和final conclusion吧，而且是intermediate conclusion推出final conclusion的。一个argument，一个conclusion。

这道题看来大家都对哪个是conclusion产生疑惑，我两次做两次错，而且两次都在看到正确答案的时候心中喊了一句“what？”照正确答案A来看，能做conclusion的是They reason that, since top executives evidently have faith in the bank’s fi nancial
soundness, those worrisome rumors must be false.

但是疑问又来了，conclusion是作者的观点，这个argument作者的观点是Such reasoning might well be overoptimistic。

混论一片。。。等待大牛出来解释啊！！！！

EMMALIULIU

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leslielles

for OG 13 89, why D is wrong??

if argument could be either "depositors reason that since executives have faith, rumor is false" or "the depositors' reasoning is overoptimistic", then D could also be the choice?

could anyone help explain the problem with D please??

紫玉寒荷

为什么D是错的呢？？？
求大神指点一二啊~~~

cinderellawang

看了好几遍Og的解释，终于恍然大悟。D选项错误有2出，都是围绕2nd bf的：（1）认为大众解读过于乐观并不是整个argument seeks to establish的内容，整个para的结构是高层持有股票—arguement 1/argument 2，author没有takes sides，不是推翻1同意，只是客观阐述；（2）直接翻译这个bf是说“高层持有股票是因为大家都知道他们会在某些时刻持有股票以对抗negative news”...逻辑有问题吧。。所以排除D/E