A major impediment to wide acceptance of electric vehicles even on the part of people who use their cars almost exclusively for commuting is the inability to use electric vehicles for occasional extended trips. In an attempt to make purchasing electric vehicles more attractive to commuters, one electric vehicle producer is planning to offer customers three days free rental of a conventional car for every 1,000 miles that they drive their electric vehicle.
Which of the following, if true, most threatens the plan's prospects for success?
Many electric vehicles that are used for commercial purposes are not needed for extended trips.
Because a majority of commuters drive at least 100 miles a week, the cost to the producer of making good the offer would add considerably to the already high price of electric vehicles.
The relatively long time it takes to recharge the battery of an electric vehicle can easily be fitted into the regular patterns of car use characteristic of commuters.
Although electric vehicles are essentially emission-free in actual use, generating the electricity necessary for charging an electric vehicle's battery can burden the environment.
Some family vehicles are used primarily not for commuting but for making short local trips, such as to do errands.
电动车的一大问题是不能保证上班族偶尔用车长途旅行。为了增加电动车对上班族吸引力,一家生产商计划开电动车每1000里就可免费租传统车3天。
计划题 目标是吸引上班族买电动车,题目削弱目标
(A) 很多商业用电动车不必长途旅行;计划是针对上班族,商用电动车跳出范围,排
(B) 因大量上班族每周开至少100里,计划成本会大大增加电动车价格;计划导致高价,减少吸引力,削弱目标,正确
(C) 电动车充电时间符合上班族习惯;增强,方向反,排
(D) 尽管电动车无排放,但产生充电需要的电仍会影响环境;对环境的影响,与目标无关,排
(E) 一些家用车主要不是为了上班,而是做短途旅行;some,无意义概率,且是针对的非上班族,无关,排。
目标:使电动车对通勤者更具有吸引力;
方案:厂商给每开1000英里电车的人免费送三天燃油车租赁;
(1)目标可达性:这优惠是否能改善吸引力;(2)可操作性:这个优惠能不能实现;(3)有无副作用:这个优惠搞了以后有没有不良后果;
这里B项应该对应的(1),因为大部分通勤者每周至少开车100英里,厂商兑现承诺的成本将使得已经很高的电动车售价变得更高。那么这种优惠搞了以后,导致车价攀升,更无人问津,方案完成了但还是无法达到目标。
A major impediment to wide acceptance of electric vehicles even on the part of people 【who use their cars almost exclusively for commuting】 is the inability to use electric vehicles for occasional extended trips. In an attempt to make purchasing electric vehicles【 more attractive to commuters,】
所以这里的使用对象是通勤者,因此提及到家庭用车很少用来通勤,是和文章讨论的主体无关的
因大量上班族每周开至少100里,计划成本会大大增加电动车价格;计划导致高价,减少吸引力,削弱目标,正确
手段,
电动汽车不擅长extended trips,对commuters没什么吸引力;
手段:每1000里免费租三天→吸引commuters
削弱
A、很多用电动车的人不需要extended trips,无关
B、电动汽车太贵了,保证性能add fee让原本就不便宜的价格雪上加霜,CORRECT(打工人都买不起呀呜呜呜,搞花里胡哨的手段没用的)
C、commuters的习惯与电动汽车充电的调性一致,增强
D、电动汽车破坏环境,无关
E、 family vehicle的用途,无关
方案不具有可行性
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本质是原因论证+条件论证,B选项应该是在削弱原因论证,给出price其实是给出他因,文章的原因不是这个
background: 导致电动汽车不能被commuters接受的原因是因为电动汽车无法适用于偶尔的远途出行。
Goal:为了让电动汽车对于commuters更受欢迎. Plan: 厂商对于每开电动汽车1000公里的用户,提供免费3天租赁普通汽车
求削弱,b选项说明该方案会让电动汽车更贵,削弱目标。错选E,无关(选项针对非上班族,原文针对上班族)
cr
考点:模糊词,削弱方案
该题没有提到方案目的,没有提及customer的concern,是因为贵还是因为不方便,那么削弱答案的可能性就有多种:贵或者是不需要不方便-------贵就是从另一方面来削弱
错选e,e中有 模糊词some
b说会增加价格,可以削弱。又一个类似的买饮料的题也是一样的思路。从另一方面来削弱
目的:attract costumers
background: 导致电动汽车不能被commuters接受的原因是因为电动汽车无法适用于偶尔的远途出行。
Plan: 厂商对于每开电动汽车1000公里的用户,提供免费3天租赁普通汽车
方案
Because a majority of commuters drive at least 100 miles a week, the cost to the producer of making good the offer would add considerably to the already high price of electric vehicles.
add sth to sth,把某物加到……里,the cost will add to the price of car,成本会被加到车的价格里;cost of housing,房屋成本,the cost to his health,以健康为代价
由于大多数通勤者每周至少开车100英里,生产商为实现这一目标而付出的成本,将大大推高已经很高的电动汽车价格。
CR:一周就能开到100公里,那很快就能累到1000公里=3天免费租赁,这将提高汽车生产商的成本,生产商最终会把这部分成本加到电动车的售价里,由消费者买单。降低电动车对消费者的吸引力。
B说的是让price变高--less attractive
原方案没有变,还增加了别的坏处
conventional car普通车
choice B的问题在于:其实这个plan没有真正解决让电动汽车难以在commuters中间推行的困难( unsuitable for extended trip), 同时还让电动汽车变得更加昂贵了(徒增劣势)
background: 导致电动汽车不能被commuters接受的原因是因为电动汽车无法适用于偶尔的远途出行。
Goal:为了让电动汽车对于commuters更受欢迎. Plan: 厂商对于每开电动汽车1000公里的用户,提供免费3天租赁普通汽车
* it will make the electric vehicles even more expensive than they already are (= worse);
WHILE
* ... doing nothing for the existing problem; i.e., the new plan still doesn't make electric vehicles suitable for extended trips (= no change in the problem).
so, that plan makes another thing (the price) worse, while not affecting the original issue.
one electric vehicle producer is planning to offer customers three days free rental of a conventional car for every 1,000 miles that they drive their electric vehicle.
一个电动车公司将打算offer消费者三天免费的传统车租借只要他们开了1000miles的电动车
注意:题目只评价plan的好坏,可否达到目标,扯别的都没用
方案推理,选项B为此方案的副作用(成本上升)。
本题的结论是方案,且无论证待评估,所以是方案推理。方案推理最主要的点,是选项要与方案内容有关。producer给出的方案是“顾客每开1000英里电动车,可以免费使用三天汽油车“
方案否定性副作用,提升价格