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When demand for a factory’s products is high, more money is spent at the factory for safety precautions and machinery maintenance than when demand is low. Thus the average number of on-the-job accidents per employee each month should be lower during periods when demand is high than when demand is low and less money is available for safety precautions and machinery maintenance.

Which of the following, if true about a factory when demand for its products is high, casts the most serious doubt on the conclusion drawn above?

(A) Its employees ask for higher wages than they do at other times.

(B) It s management hires new workers but lacks the time to train them properly.

(C) Its employees are less likely to lose their jobs than they are at other times.

(D) Its management sponsors a monthly safety award for each division in the factory.

(E) Its old machinery is replaced with moderns, automated models.

B

此题感觉上整体混乱,哪位解释一下,大家费力看看吧!!

我的理解：

题目：当一个工厂产品的需求量高时，工厂会投入更多资金用于安全防范和机器维护，这样在此期间每月每个员工工作事故量少于产品需求量低的时候的事故量，那么更少的钱会被用于安全防范和机器维护。

结论：less money is available for safety precautions and machinery maintenance。

B 管理层会雇佣很多新手，但没有足够的时间给他们适当的培训。

因此，工作事故量不会减少，那么“更少的钱会被用于安全防范和机器维护”的情况也不会发生。

怎么觉得D所说的“发安全奖”，直接削弱了结论“费用降低”呢？

而且B也并未把新手和事故联系起来呀。

OG的解释是这样的：

The passage concludes that in a factory the average number of on-the-job accidents per employee is likely to decline when demand for the factory’s products is high, on the grounds that more money gets spent on safety measures when demand is high than at other times. You are asked to identify a fact that casts doubt on this conclusion.

结论应该是：员工的事故少了，而不是less money is available for safety precautions and machinery maintenance。

Thus the average number of on-the-job accidents per employee each month should be lower during periods when demand is high than （when demand is low and less money is available for safety precautions and machinery maintenance）.