新GRE小短文阅读练习题五十六

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. Appliances such as refrigerators, dishwashers, and vacuum cleaners
have become considerably more durable over the past 30  years.  Yet their
average product life---the time from original sale to eventual discard---has,
if any thing, become shorter.  Therefore, making their products more dur-
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Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the conclusion?
       AGreater product durability has essentially been a by-product of appli-
* C- W8 E& s+ f2 W6 _       ance manufacturers' efforts to make their products more efficient
       to operate.  
     B Manufacturers who stress durability in designing their appliances
2 i% G7 _) V" z) K       often neglect attractive styling, though styling is the more apparent
       feature.  
    C  In advertising their products, appliance manufacturers do not mention
       gains in product durability as a prime selling point.  
    D  Appliance manufacturers concede that even greater gains in the dur-
       ability of their products are currently within reach.  
     E Appliance manufacturers do not spend their entire research budgets
. x+ v. V4 \. v" S+ W* e       on efforts to increase the durability of their products.  
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