[問題]GWD28-32

[EVAN HUNG]

28-32: 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.
In the argument given, the two boldfaced portions play which of the following roles?

A: The first states the position that the argument as a whole opposes; the second provides evidence to undermine the support for the position being opposed.
B: The first states the position that the argument as a whole opposes; the second is evidence that has been used to support the position being opposed.
C: The first states the position that the argument as a whole opposes; the second states the conclusion of the argument as a whole.
D: The first is evidence that has been used to support a position that the argument as a whole opposes; the second provides information to undermine the force of that evidence.
E: The first is evidence that has been used to support a position that the argument as a whole opposes; the second states the conclusion of the argument as a whole.

請問，題目中標紅的it，代的是什麼??
是投資者提的觀點 or 公司的觀點??


Sorry... 參考答案是(c)

[evelight]

Dear EVAN

貼題目要記得答案也要貼喔

[studentC]

A prominent investor ....bla bla... claimed that the company is mismanaged, .........
.................
It is doubtful .....in this case it is clearly not justified.

it 是指 claimed that ... (名詞子句)

答案
A, B 的 the second is evidence ... 錯, the second is a conclusion not an evidence.
D, E 的 the first is evidence ... 錯, the first is not an evidence.
選 C

[asianbro]

it 指的是sniping at management