prep 2012 CR 66

腐物年代

Prep2012-Pack1-CR-066 VCR003941 Hard
A product that represents a clear technological advance over competing products can generally command a high price. Surprisingly, perhaps, the strategy to maximize overall profit from a new product is to charge than
the greatest price the market will bear. Many companies charge the maximum possible price for such a product, because they want to make as much profit as they can and technological advances tend to be quickly surpassed. The drawback is that large profits on the new product give competitors a strong incentive to quickly match the new product's capabilities.
In the argument above, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?
A. The first is the position the argument advocates; the second presents grounds for rejecting an alternative
position.
B. The first is the position the argument advocates; the second is an alternative position that the argument rejects.
C. The first presents a strategy for achieving a certain goal; the second presents a drawback to that strategy.
D. The first presents a strategy for achieving a certain goal; the second presents grounds for preferring a different goal.
E. The first presents a strategy that, according to the argument, is ineffective; the second presents a way of
improving the effectiveness of that strategy.
个人觉得C更好啊，可是答案是A。好崩溃·············求解答·········官方解释看过了，仍然不是很理解。

腐物年代

up！！！！

soulwangh

you should bold face the stimulus.

Structure of the argument:
Premise A product that represents a clear technological advance over competing products can generally command a high price.
Bold face Surprisingly,perhaps, the strategy to maximize overall profits from a new product is to charge less than the maximum price the market will bear.<===This is what the argument proposes.
A second strategy is presented Many companies charge the maximum possible price for such a product,because they want to make as much profit as they can and technological advances tend to be quickly surpassed.
Bold face The drawback is that large profits on the new product give competitors an incentive to quickly develop a product to match the rival product's capabilities<== this is a drawback of the alternative strategy.


In the argument above, the boldface play which of the following roles?

A) The first is the position that the argument advocates (CORRECT);the second presents grounds for rejecting an alternate position(CORRECT).

B) The first is the position that the argument advocates(CORRECT); the second is an alternative position that the argument rejects (the second is NOT the position, is a drawback of the position).

C) The first presents a strategy for achieving a certain goal (seems fine),the second presents a drawback to that strategy (incorrect, as the drawback is of the alternative strategy, not of the one presented in the first BF);

D)The first presents a strategy for achieving a certain goal (seems fine) ,the second presents grounds for preferring a different goal (the second is not a goal).

E)The first presents a strategy that,according to the argument, is ineffective (wrong);the second presents a way of improving the effectiveness of that strategy (of course incorrect, the second BF is not anything like this).