A prominent investor who holds a large stake in the Burton Tool Company has recently claimed that
the
company is mismanaged,citing as evidence the company's failure to slow production in response to a recent rise in its inventory of finished products.It is doubtful whether an investor's sniping at management can ever be anything other than counterproductive,but in this case it is clearly not justified.It is true that an increased inventory of finished products often indicates that production is outstripping demand,but in Burton's case it indicates no such thing.Rather,the increase in inventory in entirely attributable to products that have already been assigned to orders received from customers.In the argument given,the two boldfaced portions play which of the following roles?
A.The first states the position that the argument as a whole opposes;the second provides evidence to undermine the support for the position being opposed.
B.The first states the position that the argument as a whole opposes;the second is evidence that has been used to support the position being opposed.
C.The first states the position that the argument as a whole opposes;the second states the conclusion of the argument as a whole.
D.The first is evidence that has been used to support a position that the argument as a whole opposes;the second provides information to undermine the force of that evidence.
E.The first is evidence that has been used to support a position that the argument as a whole opposes;the second states the conclusion of the argument as a whole.
我不明白为什么the second states the conclusion of the argument as a whole.请高人指教！作者: UMHIVTDC 时间: 2013-3-3 08:43
cuz i thought the mismanagement of company is cited as an evidence to support the company's failure to respond. therefore the first one should be evidence to the argument the author opposes to?
can anyone help explain here please?????作者: UMHIVTDC 时间: 2013-3-4 20:29
