waixiaoxi

我觉得根据BF部分是可以得到正确答案B的。

Argument里面提到：因为B公司在其inventory of finished products增加的情况下，并没有slow production --> 所以investor认为这家公司mismanaged。而这篇argument的author却认为在B公司的这个case下，investor的claim是not justified，in the case it is clearly not justified，这应该是argument的main conclusion。而第二个BF部分，author给出具体的理由说明为什么在B公司的这个case里investor的claim是不成立，即the increase in inventory is entirely attributable to products that have
already been assigned to orders received from customers，这个可以作为intermediate conclusion去support main conclusion。

另外，下面是GWD里面的原题，BF部分不一样，正确答案是C。
   
32. GWD28-Q32:
   
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 is entirely attributable to products that have
already been assigned to orders received from customers.


C.   
The
first states the position that the argument as a whole opposes; the second
states the conclusion of the argument as a whole.

waixiaoxi

又考虑了一下。

the increase in inventory is entirely attributable to products that have already been assigned to orders received from customers

evidence的解释：

Information indicating whether something is true or valid. It is something that supports the argument, or tries to prove it's validity .Evidence may include facts, but an evidence is usually stronger than a fact. The evidence are the direct elements required for the conclusion to stand whereas facts are not necessary for the conclusion to stand.

这句话应该是evidence，同意alohabrian的看法。而它support的是In Burton's case it indicates no such thing这个conclusion或者说是intermediate conclusion。

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