6. Sales manager: Last year the total number of meals sold in our company restaurants was much higher than it was the year before. Obviously consumers find our meals desirable.
Accountant: If you look at individual restaurants, however, you find that the number of meals sold actually decreased substantially at every one of our restaurants that was in operation both last year and the year before. The desirability of our meals to consumers has clearly decreased, given that this group of restaurants---the only ones for which we have sales figures that permit a comparison between last year and the year before---demonstrates a trend toward fewer sales.
Which one of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the accountant’s argument?
A. The company’s restaurants last year dropped from their menus most of the new dishes that had been introduced the year before.
B. Prior to last year there was an overall downward trend in the company’s sales.
C. Those of the company’s restaurants that did increase their sales last year did not offer large discounts on prices to attract customers.
D. Sales of the company’s most expensive meal contributed little to the overall two-year sales increase.
E. Most of the company’s restaurants that were in operation throughout both last year and the year before are located in areas where residents experienced a severe overall decline in income last year.
The answer is E, but I think it's C.
Answer
E: we can't find any connection between the income decline and the restaurant sales from the above paragraph, even though most people may agree that the more income, the more people go to restaurants.
Answer C
means the restaurants that didnot increase their sales last year offered large discounts on prices to attract customers.
(attachment: feifei' s explanation
A. Reason to explain why the sale of each sample restaurant decreased last year. （无关）
B. 总公司前年的下降不能否定去年的下降，也不能支持。（无关）
C. 那些去年销量不降反增的公司是因为没有降价太多。不降反增的公司与下降的公司是两个不同的集合，描述对象不正确。如果我们推出那些下降的公司是因为降价太多，也只能是给出一个原因来解释为什么下降。 （无关）
D. 公司最贵的招牌菜并没有给公司带来销售的增加。也属于一个解释，解释为什么总量会下降。但与Accountant 的观点并没有直接的联系。既没有针对描述对象：2-year-history restaurant，也没有削弱论据与结论之间的必然联系。
E. 答案。针对描述对象：2-year-history restaurant，他因：a severe overall decline in income)作者: youngerlee 时间: 2011-4-8 21:56
