3.     Affirmative action is good business. So asserted the National Association of Manufacturers while urging retention of an executive order requiring some federal contractors to set numerical goals for hiring minorities and women. “Diversity in work force participation has produced new ideas in management, product development, and marketing,” the association claimed.

The association’s argument as it is presented in the passage above would be most strengthened if which of the following were true?

(A) The percentage of minority and women workers in business has increased more slowly than many minority and women’s groups would prefer.

(B) Those businesses with the highest percentages of minority and women workers are those that have been the most innovative and profitable.

(C) Disposable income has been rising as fast among minorities and women as among the population as a whole.

(D) The biggest growth in sales in the manufacturing sector has come in industries that market the most innovative products.（B）

(E) Recent improvements in management practices have allowed many manufacturers to experience enormous gains in worker productivity.

说老实话,前面的我也不大懂,但个人认为从这里能看懂就足够了,而且这里也确实比较容易理解:to set numerical goals for hiring minorities and women. “Diversity in work force participation has produced new ideas in management, product development, and marketing,”

可以看出,文章大致的结论就是:那些雇佣更多少数民族的人和女人的公司,更有可能有新思想

题目问加强,我们来看B.B就是在说那些少数民族和女人占很高比例的公司最显创新性和赢利性.

和题目内容完美的对应,支持

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