[問題]OG(11th) Q30

[larry.tw]

Q30
In many corporations, employees are being replaced by automated equipment in order to save money. However, many workers who lose their jobs to automation will need government assistance to survive, and the same corporations that are laying people off will eventually pay for that assistance through increased taxes and unemployment insurance payments.

Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the author’s argument?
(A) Many workers who have already lost their jobs to automation have been unable to find new jobs.
(B) Many corporations that have failed to automate have seen their profits decline.
(C) Taxes and unemployment insurance are also paid by corporations that are not automating.
(D) Most of the new jobs created by automation pay less than the jobs eliminated by automation did.
(E) The initial investment in machinery for automation is often greater than the short-term savings in labor costs.

Ans:A


可以請問各位大大,為什麼A是strengthen?(感覺是assumption)
為什麼C是weaken?
OG解釋C => The fact that such costs are paid and will be paid by all corporations, whether or not they automate, weakens the author's argument by suggesting that the increased costs resulting from automation will be spread over a wider group.

我題目的理解是:公司解雇員工,其實某方面成本不會減少,因為加在tax和unemployment insurance上!

麻煩各位!Thanks!

[Huang Hsin-Yi]

結論:自動化公司不會節省錢,因為他們要付增加的稅及失業保險
原因: 被遣散的勞工向政府領失業救濟金
而政府必需向公司收稅

(c)那些沒有自動化的公司有幫忙繳錢,表示自動化公司可減少增加的稅及失業保險的成本
(a)如果那些失業勞工都找不到工作,就會像題目講的那樣,所以support

[Huang Hsin-Yi]

Q30
我題目的理解是:公司解雇員工,其實某方面成本不會減少,因為加在tax和unemployment insurance上!
這個理解沒錯

[larry.tw]

了解了~~~~謝謝Huang