Personnel officer: The exorbitant cost of our health-insurance benefits reflects the high dollar amount of medical expenses incurred by our employees. Employees who are out of shape, as a group, have higher doctor bills and longer hospital stays than do their colleagues who are fit. Therefore, since we must reduce our health-insurance costs, we should offer a rigorous fitness program of jogging and weight lifting to all employees, and require employees who are out of shape to participate.

The conclusion reached by the personnel officer depends on which of the following assumptions?


A person who is fit would receive a routine physical checkup by a doctor less regularly than would a person who is out of shape.

The medical expenses incurred by employees who are required to participate in the fitness program would be less than those incurred by employees who are not required to participate.

The strenuous activities required of out-of-shape employees by the program would not by themselves generate medical expenses greater than any reduction achieved by the program.

The fitness program would serve more employees who are out of shape than it would employees who are fit.

The employees who participate in the fitness program would be away from work because of illness less than would the employees who do not participate.

考题讲解

情景:员工健康保险福利的成本很高表明了员工们在医疗上的花费很高。那些过胖的雇员比一般的雇员在医药费和住院时间上都多。因此,由于我们必须减少成本,所以我们应该要求过胖的雇员参与一个慢跑减重的项目。

推理:推理文段的结论句是一个方案,并且问题最后要我们评估这个方案,因此,本题是方案推理,推理结构为:
目标:To reduce our health-insurance costs
方案:We should offer a rigorous fitness program of jogging and weight lifting to all employees, and require employees who are out of shape to participate

选题方式:方案推理有三个评估方向,简而言之,即,答案选项一定和方案的内容相关。

选项分析:

A选项: 肥胖的人比健康的人更经常地接受医生的检查。本选项是在描述肥胖人的特点和性质,并没有提及到方案本身,所以不能成为正确答案。

B选项:被要求参加健身项目的人的医疗花费将会比不被要求参加健身项目的人的医疗花费高。无论被要求的和不被要求的这两种人谁的花费更高,都不影响参加健身项目可以节省医疗费用这个方案,即,只要参加之后比之前医疗费用下降了,就算作方案可行。

C选项:Correct. 这个对于肥胖人员的比较严格的健身项目自己产生的医疗费用(这种锻炼项目有可能会使得肥胖的人受伤的)不会比它节省下的医疗费用更高。本选项属于CQ1:方案的可行性问题

D选项:
相比较于健康雇员,这个健身项目会帮助更多的肥胖雇员。本选项没有提及方案内容,所以不能成为正确答案。

E选项:
参加健身项目的雇员比不参加健身项目的雇员更不容易因为生病而请假。本选项描述了参加健身项目能带来的一个好处,并不是该方案可以避免的一个副作用。

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