[問題]真題一道

[Lian]

George Bernard Shaw wrote: That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg is enough to make one despair of political humanity."

Shaw's statement would best serve as an illlustration in an argument criticizing which of the following?

(A) Dentists who perform unnecessary dental work in order to earn a profit
(B) Doctors who increase their profits by specializing only in diseases that affect a large percentage of the population
(C) Grocers who raise the price of food in order to increase their profit margines
(D) Oil companies that decrease the price of their oil in order to increase their market share
(E) Bakers and surgeons who earn a profit by supplying other peoples' basic needs

不了解其題意, 麻煩大家幫忙, 謝謝

[zuckzhc]

Dear Lian,

建議您將您的問題敘述的更清楚一些
這樣大家討論起來比較有重點
如果是英文看不懂
建議先自己多研究一下句型
或是說一下你哪一句看不懂
這樣對你比較有幫助

[Lian]

should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg is enough to make one despair of political humanity

經讀書會討論後, 對此句含意仍無了解, 麻煩各位了, 謝謝

[cocaine]

我試試看..再請其他大大指教.



1.having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you.分詞結構,修飾主詞.中文說一各理性的國民,你應該給錢, 幫你烤麵包的人

2. (That any sane nation should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg) is enough to make one despair of political humanity." 任何理性國民應該要給幫你切除腳的外科醫生金錢 ,這樣的概念是足夠使一各國民對於人性絕望.
表示說切腳給錢是S認為有問題的地方

問題要去support S的說法.

A.牙醫做不必要的手術就是為了賺錢.<==support S 做了不必要的手術還要給錢,讓國民對人性失望.

感覺是這樣..不大確定,因為題目有點難懂

[zuckzhc]

我對題目的大概理解也和 cocaine相同
不過我覺得問題應該這樣看
問題是說以上敘述的情況最能夠當成例子來批評下列哪一個選項
也就是說文章能weaken下面哪個選項

我也選A
問題中的argument拿文章做例子來批評選項
文章說如果一個人要開刀給錢這件事是會讓人對人性失望
因為開刀跟買麵包是不一樣的
不應該把手術看成是只是金錢交易的產物
選項中只有A是在說這件事
而文章也能對選項起到weaken的作用
CD說的是民生用品
與文章中談論的人性道德觀念無關,不選
BE雖然有談到醫生
但是只著墨在於他們如何賺錢而沒提到人性道德問題,不選

這題真的不好懂
open to discuss