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题库 / OG2018-CR-651
Country X’s recent stock-trading scandal should not diminish investors’ confidence in the country’s stock market. For one thing, the discovery of the scandal confirms that Country X has a strong regulatory system, as the following considerations show. In any stock market, some fraudulent activity is inevitable. If a stock market is well regulated, any significant stock-trading fraud in it will very likely be discovered. This deters potential perpetrators and facilitates improvement in regulatory processes.
In the argument, the portion in boldface plays which of the following roles?
It is the argument’s only conclusion.
It is a conclusion for which the argument provides support and which itself is used to support the argument’s main conclusion.
It is argument’s main conclusion and is supported by another explicitly stated conclusion for which further support is provided.
It is assumption for which no explicit support is provided and used to support the argument’s only conclusion.
It is compound statement containing both the argument’s main conclusion and an assumption used to support that conclusion.
情景：股票交易的丑闻不会降低投资者信心的。这种发现本身就表示一个健全的监管机制。如果股票市场被很好的监管，那么任何坏事都会第一时间被发现，这本身就威慑了潜在的风险。
推理：本题只有一个黑体字，要求我们找到黑体字的角色。显然地，这个黑体字首先支持了文章的主结论，即，股票交易的丑闻不会降低投资者信心的。另外，其身后的内容一直在论证这个黑体字的意义，即，为什么这种丑闻的揭发展示了良好的监管机制。
选题方式：略。
选项分析：
A选项：它是文章唯一的结论。
B选项：Correct. 它是一个论证提供了支持的结论，并且它自己也在支持文章的主结论。
C选项：它是论证的主结论并且被另外一个明确提出的结论所支持。
D选项：它是一个无明确支持的假设，并且它自己支持文章的主结论。
E选项：它是一个复合声明，这个声明包含了文章的主结论和一个用于支持这个结论的假设。
【Country X’s recent stock-trading scandal should not diminish investors’ confidence in the country’s stock market.】则是main conclusion
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