1． Economist: Tropicorp, which constantly seeks profitable investment opportunities,has been buying and clearing sections of tropical forest for cattle ranching,although pastures newly created there become useless for grazing after just afew years.  The company has not gone intorubber tapping, even though greater profits can be made from rubber tapping, which leaves the forest intact.  Thus, some environmentalists conclude that Tropicorp has not acted wholly out ofeconomic self-interest.  However, these environmentalists are probably wrong.  The initial investment required for asuccessful rubber-tapping operation is larger than that needed for a cattle ranch.  Furthermore, there is a shortage of workersemployable in rubber-tapping operations, and finally, taxes are higher on profits from rubber tapping than on profits from cattleranching.

In the economist’s argument, the two boldfaced portions play which of thefollowing roles?
我选第一个是economist的结论;第二个是evidence支持结论

2有一道题先给出了value of nation (还是production)是所有monetary value of all products and services 的总合
fact i:  98% of workforce were employeed last year (1998), and this rate is not likely to be any higher this year (1999)
fact ii: 说是1999年每个employee创造的价值和product is not expected to be higher than those in year 1998
结论：1999年的value of nation 不会超过1998

答案选：Workforce is not likely to be significant higher in 1999 than in 1998

3还有就是考了狗狗了面那个philoshy classic教授那个题。问削弱，我选的是A,记得好象是说什么很多classic department都有linguistic sub department or something like that.....

4 Draught will come. So government enforce a new plan to reduced the water used by garden. But statistics shows that the water used by garden accounts a very little portion of the whole water. 求 explain

ANSWER: when the rain is little, the residential tend to use more waters for their garden.

5 Every fall Croton's jays migrate south.  The jays always join flocks of migrating crookbeaks with which they share the same summer and winter territories.  If a jay becomes separated from the crookbeaks it is accompanying, it wanders until it comes across another flock of crookbeaks.  Clearly, therefore, Croton's jays lack the navigational ability to find their way south on their own.
Which of the following, if true, most weaken the argument above?
Ans. Croton's jays lay their eggs in the nests of crookbeaks, which breed upon completing their southern migration.

6.说是公寓管理这类的要收一费用因为住户来回搬家具损毁了楼梯，但是这对于新住户不公平，因为老住户总是搬来搬去的以前也没有付fee。问的是评价

a city is going to increase the pension for senior citizens by 20%, however the economic situation of senior citizens does not increase much,why?

A. pension is the only financial resource for these retirees
B. before the increment of pension, senior is suffering the very poor condition.

7.还有一提是一个饮料公司说自己公司的饮料低fat，只有10%， 可是在产品说明上 ，10%的fat可以产生35的卡路里，然后blablabla 的，记得不清楚了。