59. Top college graduates are having more difficulty demonstrating their superiority to prospective employers than did the top students of twenty years ago when an honors degree was distinction enough. Today’s employers are less impressed with the honors degree. Twenty years ago no more than 10 percent of a given class graduated with honors. Today, however, because of grade inflation, the honors degree goes to more than 50 percent of a graduating class. Therefore, to restore confidence in the degrees they award, colleges must take steps to control grade inflation.

Which one of the following is an assumption that, if true, would support the conclusion in the passage?

A.        Today’s students are not higher achievers than the students of twenty years ago.

B.        Awarding too many honors degrees causes colleges to inflate grades.

C.        Today’s employers rely on honors ranking in making their hiring decisions.

D.       It is not easy for students with low grades to obtain jobs.

E.   Colleges must make employers aware of the criteria used to determine who receives an honor degree

答案A，没怎么看明白。 结论不是说为了恢复对学位的信心，要控制膨胀么？

A说现在学生质量不如20年前高。。。。。。。

学生质量高不高和授不授于荣誉有什么关系，它不是说因为被授予荣誉的人多了导致employers are less impressed with the honors degree么？

对A取非是现在学生质量和20年前一样好，质量高了为什么授予荣誉多是正常的？

请教怎么看出结论是这句话，而不是therefore后面那句？

好吧，谢谢，虽然我还是不是很理解。这里是不是有个假设：质量好的应该被授予荣誉 ，质量不好的不应该？

我的理解是不管它因为什么原因扩招，其结果都是人数增加了。

题目是说，因为拥有荣誉的人数多了，所以失去信任。是不是这样推理的：质量不好且拥有荣誉的学生在外面表现也不好，导致别人对拥有荣誉的人失去信心？所以需要控制。而不是有的质量好的学生在外面表现也不好，所以导致同样的结果。那这样，是不是有个假设，质量不好的学生在外面表现也就不好。如果有这个假设，这道题就不难理解了。

我错的GMAT的逻辑题似乎都是题目有假设我没有看出来的，也许在别人看来这种假设是天经地义，理所应当的，但是我就是没有看出来。

哎，看来还是要多做，思维还是没有和GMAT接轨。。。。。。。。。。痛苦中。。。。。。。。。。。