新GRE小短文阅读练习题四十五

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Corporate Manager:  Julian Smith is a member of a secret society, and
. h1 `- B* e4 _0 L5 L4 Y          members of secret societies usually do not want their membership
          to be widely known.  If we hired people who wanted to hide their
          membership in that society, our competitors, by threatening to reveal
1 h0 t. u; Q2 G! g          that membership, might pressure them to violate our corporate
1 c5 s, v# Y) c2 J6 m8 c1 i          interests.  Since our company has to protect itself, we should not hire
          anyone who is vulnerable to this sort of pressure.  Hence, we should
          not hire Julian Smith.
     The corporate manager uses which of the following strategies in the
   argument?
        Relying on the fact that eve r y time the corporation has performed a
        certain type of action in the past, an undesirable effect has ensued  
       Drawing a general conclusion relating to all job candidates on the basis
         of observations of one job candidate  
       Supporting a general principle and then applying it to a particular case  
       Establishing a given claim by showing that it is impossible for it to be
         false  
3 ?( z( P8 P5 `4 X. O  y! K( n& L- W% }4 o       Using, as part of the evidence in support of a hypothesis, the fact that
        the relevant experts accept it as true  
答案C