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little_fox

19. It takes 365.25 days for the Earth to make one complete revolution around the sun. Long ?standing convention makes a year 365 days long, with an extra day added every fourth year, and the year is divided into 52 seven-day weeks. But since 52 times 7 is only 364, anniversaries do not fall on the same day of the week each year. Many scheduling problems could be avoided if the last day of each year and an additional day every fourth year belonged to no week, so that January 1 would be a Sunday every year.

The proposal above, once put into effect, would be most likely to result in continued scheduling conflicts for which one of the following groups?

(A) people who have birthdays or other anniversaries on December 30 or 31

(B) employed people whose strict religious observances require that they refrain from working every seventh day

(C) school systems that require students to attend classes a specific number of days each year

(D) employed people who have three-day breaks from work when holidays are celebrated on Mondays or Fridays

(E) people who have to plan events several years before those events occur
此题答案为B，我好生困惑，为什么每年的最后一天不记入星期，会给每七天休息一次的人带来CONFLICT？


24. One sure way you can tell how quickly a new idea ?for example, the idea of "privatization" is taking hold among the population is to monitor how fast the word or words expressing that particular idea are passing into common usage. Professional opinions of whether or not words can indeed be said to have passed into common usage are available from dictionary editors, who are vitally concerned with this question.

The method described above for determining how quickly a new idea is taking hold relies on which one of the following assumptions?

(A) Dictionary editors are not professionally interested in words that are only rarely used.

(B) Dictionary editors have exact numerical criteria for telling when a word has passed into common usage.

(C) For a new idea to take hold, dictionary editors have to include the relevant word or words in their dictionaries.

(D) As a word passes into common usages, its meaning does not undergo any severe distortions in the process.

(E) Words denoting new ideas tend to be used before the ideas denoted are understood
发现自己在做假设题时，思路出了点问题，答案为D，我觉得B、D都正确，B中编辑们能够判断难道不是个必要条件吗，请高手指点？

little_fox

got it,xiele!

primefang

19 如没有这项规定，每七天休息一次，假设对他来说就是星期天休息。但是由于Dec 31 不算入星期，那么他的这种规律就会被打乱，

tongxun

(B) employed people whose strict religious observances require that they refrain from working every seventh day
由于这些人是严格按照每7天工作，但一年的天数又不是7的整倍数，就造成他们上班的时间与同事不一样了。比如，大家都将多余的那天酸成休息时间，无形中多了一天休息，但教徒们并没有按照国家统一的时间表来，而是将这一天也算到他们的每7天中了。
糊里糊涂地说了一同，不知清楚了没有。

little_fox

斑竹：
   关于19题为什么选B，我还是不明白？

tongxun

little-fox:作题时走神了吧？
1、此题答案为B，我好生困惑，为什么每年的最后一天不记入星期，会给每七天休息一次的人带来CONFLICT？
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休息的人在D啊！
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2、B) Dictionary editors have exact numerical criteria for telling when a word has passed into common usage. 只是重复了are available from dictionary editors,的意思；并且numerical criteria 纯属outscope。
其实，文章中曾着重指出expressing that particular idea。
欢迎讨论！