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18.题库6
The following appeared as part of an article in a magazine devoted to regional life.
“Corporations should look to the city of Helios when seeking new business opportunities or a new location. Even in the recent recession, Helios’s unemployment rate was lower than the regional average. It is the industrial center of the region, and historically it has provided more than its share of the region’s manufacturing jobs. In addition, Helios is attempting to expand its economic base by attracting companies that focus on research and development of innovative technologies.”

一份面向(devote to)地方生活的杂志上的一篇文章：
企业在寻找新的商机或位置时应该去Helios城。甚至在最近的衰退中，Helios的失业率也比地区平均水平低，它是地区的工业中心，历史上它提供的比它在地区制造业工作中分享的份额中更多。而且，Helios正试图通过吸引研究和发展革新技术的公司来扩张它的经济基础。

(XDF) 分观点:Another problem with the available work force is its size

(阿T)
这里，作者建议新公司建立到Helios这样的城市，理由是它是该地区的工业中心，而且在最近一次萧条期中，它的失业率低于整个地区的平均失业水平。

问题是，新公司选址，首先应该考虑公司自身的业务特点，人才需求特点，之后再选择适应这些特点的城市。许多新公司是高新技术公司，恐怕在Helios建址就不是个好主意。因为该城市是个历史悠久的工业城市，且劳动力供给以生产型人员为主。也就是说，在这里公司很难招到合适的员工。

另外一点，象这种历史悠久的工业城市，其商业区恐怕趋于饱和，地价方面恐怕难免要偏高，这不利于新公司初建期尽量节约开支的原则。

只看总体失业率也不妥。应该进一步考察一下失业人员的技术含量比例。很有可能的是，总体失业率虽不高，但其中的脑力劳动者的占很大的比例也说不定呢！

Unemployment rate is not a key factor to attract companies. There should be other advantages stated in the article, such as: high quality labors(cost-saving lobors), convenient transportations, infrastructure, living cost, weather, location, resource, stable political situation……..etc
The article doesn’t provide any statistical figures to support its view, so we can’t make a decision barely by unemployment rate.
The article fail to illustrate some famous companies located in Helio, so I am not convinced.  

Gratuitious Assumption--"low unemployment rate is good for new businesses"  this might actually mean that there are no employees to be had in helios
All Thing Equal--just because this is an industrial center it is not necessarily good for all corporations, the reasons that it became such a center are not necessarily favorable to other new businesses and may not still exist

To begin with, it is questionable whether the available labor pool in Helios could support all types of corporations.
Another problem  with the available work force is its size.
Finally, without any knowledge of the existing industrial structure in Helios, a company would find it difficult to decide whether its invertment or relocation in this city is wise.

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19.题库11

The following appeared in the editorial section of a local newspaper.
“In the first four years that Montoya has served as mayor of the city of San Perdito, the population has decreased and the unemployment rate has increased. Two businesses have closed for each new business that has opened. Under Varro, who served as mayor for four years before Montoya, the unemployment rate decreased and the population increased. Clearly, the residents of San Perdito would be best served if they voted Montoya out of office and reelected Varro.”

地方性报纸的编者按：
在Montoya当San Perdito市长的头4年里，人口下降而失业率上升。每当一个新企业开业，就有两个旧的关门。而在Montoya之前Uarro当市长的4年里，失业率下降人口增长。很明显，San Perdito的居民重新选举Varro而非Montoya会得到更好的服务。

OverSimplification--the fact that the population decreased and unemployment increased during Montoya's first four years does not necessarily indicate that Montoya was the cause.
OverSimplification-- similarly the increase in population and the decrease in unemployment during Varro's term doesn't necessarily mean that Varro was the cause.
GratuitiousAssumption--the author assumes that the higher rate of closing businesses than of opening businesses means means that the local economy is having trouble.  It is possible that the businesses that are closing were not very profitable while the businesses that are opening are and will be highly profitable, if this were the case then it should be taken as a sign of economic success.

A. the arguer fails to eatablish a causal relationship between Motoya administration and the problems of unemployment and population loss.
B. In addition, the argument at hand might have been intentionally oversimplifies for the specific purpose of angering citizens of Sam Perdito, and thereby turning them against the incumbent mayor,

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20.题库97

The following appeared as part of an article in a computer magazine.
“A year ago Apex Manufacturing bought its managers computers for their homes and paid for telephone connections so that the managers could access Apex computers and data files from home after normal business hours. Since last year, productivity at Apex has increased by 15 percent. Other companies can learn from the success at Apex: given home computers and access to company resources, employees will work additional hours at home and thereby increase company profits.”
电脑杂志的文章：
一年前Apex制造公司给它的经理们在家买了电脑，并支付电话费，这样他们就可以在工作时间以外从家里连接到Apex的电脑和数据文件。从去年开始，Apex的生产能力增长了15%。其他公司可以借鉴Apex的成功，提供家用电脑和到公司资源的链接，雇员会在家里加班并提高公司利润。

Notice that only managers were bought computers by Apex, whose productivity indeed rose 15 percent as the result.  It is different from the assumption made in the article, which stated that if all employees were brought computers, they would work extra hours at home.  Managers ≠ all employees

A. This argument suffers from a fallacy of post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
B. Next, the author fails to provide any evidence tht installing home computers for managers really led to the increase of Apex’s productivity.

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21.题库39
The following appeared in an Avia Airlines departmental memorandum.
“On average, 9 out of every 1,000 passengers who traveled on Avia Airlines last year filed a complaint about our baggage-handling procedures. This means that although some 1 percent of our passengers were unhappy with those procedures, the overwhelming majority were quite satisfied with them; thus it would appear that a review of the procedures is not important to our goal of maintaining or increasing the number of Avia’s passengers.

Avia航空的部门备忘录：
平均地，去年乘坐Avia的1000个乘客中有9个针对我们的行李处理流程写了投诉信。这说明虽然有大约1%的乘客对这一流程表示不满，乘客的主体对它还是满意的。所以对流程的重新审查对我们要保持和提高Avia的乘客数这一目标不是很重要的。

Ans：
It doesn’t represent that the others who don’t complain are satisfied with their procedures.
Although 0.1% of the customers complained about their baggage procedure, it doesn’t they are the only customers who are dissatisfied with the procedure. Some customers might be disatified but didn’t comlpain about it.
So we can’t sure if the 0.1% complaint is too few to be neglected.

A. In the first place, the arguer takes for granted that the 99 percent of Avia passengers who did not complain were happy with the airline’s baggage-handling procedures.
B. In the second place, lacking any information regarding the number of passengers per flight and the complaint records of competing airlines, we cannot evaluate the seriousness of the problem.

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22．题库105

The following appeared in an editorial from a newspaper serving the town of Saluda.
“The Saluda Consolidated High School offers over 200 different courses from which its students can choose. A much smaller private school down the street offers a basic curriculum of only 80 different courses, but it consistently sends a higher proportion of its graduating seniors on to college than Consolidated does. By eliminating at least half of the courses offered there and focusing on a basic curriculum, we could improve student performance at Consolidated and also save many tax dollars.”

Saluda镇的报纸的编者按：
Saluda统一高中提过超过200中不同的课程供它的学生选择。路那头一所小的多的私立学校提供80种基本的课程，但是它的毕业生升入大学的比例始终比统一高中要高。去除至少一半的课程而着眼于基本课程，我们可以改善统一高中学生的表现并省下税收收入。

A. In the first place, the smaller number of courses offered by the small private school may not have much to do with its higher percentage of graduating seniors who go to college.
B. In the second place, the arguer fails to consider other possible factors that might contribute to the student performance at Consolidated.

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23.
a local chain Greentree Grocers has been experiencing high sales volume but decreasing profit margin. Its customers are wealthy people looking for gourmet food and luxury shopping experience, so it must cut costs without hurting the customers' shopping experience. So it plans to layoff 10 employees per store and eliminate expensive displays and free samples. In addition, it will partner with Cabaree Coffee Cafe to have a coffee shop in each store. This is supported by a recent survey that the Grocers and the Cafe attract similar types of customers. The conclusion is that Greentree Grocers will experience high sales volume as well as high profit margin.

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24.题库106

The following appeared as part of a business plan by the Capital Idea Investment firm.
“Currently more and more books are becoming available in electronic form — either free of charge on the Internet or for a very low price per book on CD-ROM.* People who would not pay bookstore prices will now have access to whatever book they want from their home or work computers. Consequently, literary classics are likely to be read more widely than ever before: 72 percent of those responding to a recent online survey said they would read books in electronic form, and 81 percent said they believed that reading classic works was important. Given this newly developing market, we should invest in E-Classics, a new company that sells electronic versions of literary classics.”
*A CD-ROM is a small portable disc capable of storing relatively large amounts of data that can be read by a computer.

报纸的图书版的文章：
现在越来越多的书有了电子版，或者放在网上免费获得，或者在光盘上以很低的价格出售。因此文学经典可以得到比以前更广泛的阅读。不能以书店价格购买这些书的人现在可以用很少的钱或者不花钱来阅读他们。类似的，觉得去图书馆或者等待其他人还书不方便的人现在可以通过家里或者工作用的电脑得到他想要的任何名著。这和文学名著接触的增长将从根本上影响公众的阅读品味，塑造比以前更成熟更博学的读者。

A. The increase in access to classics cannot ensure improvement or change of the public taste in reading.
B. In addition, reading literary classics alone cannot create a far more sophisticated and learned reading audience.

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待完善题

1
AA:是一个gym的manager说有机食品的;说一个survey表明大家对吃的健康有兴趣.吃有机食品是"吃的健康"的一种.这个地区目前还没有有机食品商店,我们要在其他厂商(大概是这个意思,national chain之类的)进来之前建立这些有机食品商店.然后说gym的利润不佳有一年了,此举可以增加利润.
2
版本一，mining technology去年需求下降导致B 公司利润和股票下降。最近新能源科技表现很好，B 公司应该转向新能源科技来提高利润和股价
版本二， Last year全国的mining technology都状态低迷，而做Renewable energy的公司有不少都挺成功（列举了一些能源），因此Blastcom公司认为通过转变策略，devoting research to renewable engergy来盈利并升高公司股价是一定会成功.
版本三， 是说去年能源需求下降，但有一些公司开发新能源利润和股票价格都上升了，所以如果B公司也开发新能源，一定会保证profits和share prices在未来不受任何decline的影响
3
有个国家（W开头）national parks 游客减少，因为工业污染增加。国家准备把national parks拿来mining来增加收入。mining公司也会给国家缴税和重新雇用之前在national park工作的人。所以为了增加revenue, W国家应该permit把national parks给mining company的建议

4
是讲在家办公由于会受到环境影响，如电话，家务，邻居等影响，比在办公室办公差。家里太自由，而且不利于职业发展等等。结论是辞掉工作在家办公很不明智。
三月狗狗的参考：
很多人为了追求self-employment 在家里办公，在家里经常会被电话、邻居及家务打扰，并且在家里就把自己与同事领导隔离了，在职业发展上对个人也不利。总之，在家里办公不如在办公室工作效率高。
5
conclusion: now is the perfect time to buy houses. 在过去的5年里，一个地方的房价飞涨，而国家的stock market下降。说这是投资买房最好时机。人们都能获得profits。房价还能继续上涨。。。同时投资买房也会使人们的生活水平提高（主宰自己的房子里）。 说未来的5年仍会这样。
三月狗狗的参考：
作文argument是建议投资房子，说过去五年房子升值很快，超过了其他投资。大家有目共睹。而且房子不仅能升值，还能住人。以后趋势也是这样，建议大家都投资房子。（我这里叙述的比较简单，并且不太完整。真实题目有点长。我又懒得总结，直接打字copy，为后面几段能黏贴得多点凑字数。光第一段我就花了十分钟。）
过去看过这个题目，但我在官方题库搜关键字five years， invest， houseowners 都没有搜出来，觉得很奇怪。请大家帮找找。
6
我找了我新东方的那本题库两遍，但是我居然没找到，总之就是一个什么automobile models，人们爱luxury的，不爱买什么inexpensive。。。想不起来了
三月狗狗的参考：
“AUTOMOBILE——6月的销售策略是陈列LUXURY MODEL,打LUXURY MODEL的广告，然后COMBINED SALES剧烈上涨。2月陈列MORE INEXPENSIVE MODEL，打INEXPENSIVE MODEL的广告，OVERALL SALES下降。经历的结论：应该继续6月的策略，因为只要顾客踏入AUTO LOT然后看到L MODEL就会被吸引然后购买。”
7
AA说有个飞机公司的CEO因为一年来利润下降而且石油价格上升，然后说要取消航班次数什么的
8
V1  Fishbone beer 的一个  说了一个 delay demand 能够 促进 什么东西来着，增加reputation ，然后一旦满足市场需求 就会赚到 大概是这个意思 因为beer的 great taste 和reputation 。 我想出三点 只写上两点 时间不够了。题库里好像真没有这道题。
1，忽略整个beer  industry，和竞争对手状况。
2，delay demand 可能造成 retailer 的不满 从而封杀Fishbone 这个啤酒 未考虑negative results。

V2 就是fishbone beer的那个（我没看过题库，不知道全文，不好意思），大概意思就是这个酒厂是一个小型local酒厂，一个consultant建议酒厂推行一个全国范围的campaign，理由是虽然目前的生产达不到要求，但是delay demand可是使得beer seem rare，从而增强reputation。 二是等到生产设备catch up了，他们的market和revenue就是随之很快增加。

9
关于航空公司的，说一个航空公司的profit下降了20%，因为油价上升了而且这个公司新增加了一些航班，航空公司认为这两个原因导致了profit下降，但是其他的航空公司也面临了油价的上涨，而且大部分的profit上升了，所以为了增加profit这个航空公司准备取消新增加的航班。

10.
A survey shows that our consumers are more cared about eating healthier. One way to eat healthy is to eat organic food, which is free of fertilizer and pesticide. Our city has no organic food store currently, so we can establish one in our city. We can open organic food store in our gyms so that we can expect that the profits of our gyms, which stayed the same for a year, would increase.