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?


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.

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.

The first states the position that the argument as a whole opposes; the second states the conclusion of the argument as a whole.

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.

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.

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情景：略

推理：第一个黑体字是表明了一个结论。第二个黑体字其实是另外一个结论，只不过这两个结论是相反的。

选题方式：略

选项分析：

A选项：第一个黑体字是论证所反对的观点；第二个黑体字提供论据去削弱反对的观点。第二个黑体字是论证的中心论点。

B选项：第一个黑体字是论证反对的观点；第二个黑字体提供论据支持反对观点。第二个黑体字是论证的中心论点。

C选项：Correct. 第一个黑体字是论证反对的观点；第二个黑字体是总结论。

D选项：第一个黑体字提供了一个证据支持论证反对观点；第二句提供了削弱这个证据的信息。两个黑体字分别是两个结论，不是证据。

E选项：第一个黑体字提供了一个支持论证反对的观点的证据；第二个黑字体是总结论。第一个黑体字是一个结论。

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