题目
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.
Which of the following, if true, provides the most support for the personnel officer's proposal?
选项
A.The medical expenses incurred by fit people who participate in a program of jogging and weight lifting are less than those incurred by fit people who do not participate in such a program.
B.More otherwise fit people are injured by participating in rigorous jogging and weight-lifting programs than are injured by participating in moderate jogging and weight-lifting programs.
C.The likelihood of incurring medical expenses is slightly greater for people who participate in fitness programs offered by their employers than it is for people who participate in programs offered commercially.
D.Moderate fitness programs increase the average person's fitness to the same extent that rigorous fitness programs do.
E.More health problems and injuries are the result of mandatory participation in a fitness program than are the result of voluntary participation.
解析
### 题目翻译
人事官员:我们健康保险福利的高昂成本反映了员工所产生的高额医疗费用。总体而言,身体状况不佳的员工比身体健康的同事有更高的医生账单和更长的住院时间。因此,由于我们必须降低健康保险成本,我们应该向所有员工提供包括慢跑和举重的严格健身计划,并要求身体状况不佳的员工参加。
### 核心论点及正确答案方向
- **核心论点**
- **论点**:通过向所有员工提供严格健身计划并要求身体不佳员工参加,来降低健康保险成本。
- **论据**:身体不佳的员工比健康员工有更高医疗费用。
- **正确答案方向**:能证明该健身计划确实能有效降低医疗费用或者说明该健身计划对降低成本有积极作用的选项可加强该提议。
### 选项分析
- **A选项**
- **选项内容**:参加慢跑和举重计划的健康人所产生的医疗费用比不参加此类计划的健康人要少。
- **分析**:该选项表明即使是本身健康的人参加该健身计划也能减少医疗费用,那么对于身体状况不佳的员工来说,参加该计划更有可能降低医疗费用,从而有助于降低健康保险成本,对人事官员的提议起到了支持作用。
- **B选项**
- **选项内容**:参加严格慢跑和举重计划的健康人比参加适度慢跑和举重计划的健康人更容易受伤。
- **分析**:这说明严格健身计划可能会带来更多受伤风险,反而有可能增加医疗费用,不利于降低健康保险成本,起到了削弱作用。
- **C选项**
- **选项内容**:参加雇主提供的健身计划的人比参加商业健身计划的人产生医疗费用的可能性略高。
- **分析**:意味着该健身计划可能会增加医疗费用,不利于降低健康保险成本,起到了削弱作用。
- **D选项**
- **选项内容**:适度健身计划和严格健身计划在提高普通人的健康程度上效果相同。
- **分析**:既然适度健身计划就能达到相同效果,那采用严格健身计划就不是必要的,一定程度上削弱了人事官员提议的合理性。
- **E选项**
- **选项内容**:强制参加健身计划导致的健康问题和受伤比自愿参加的多。
- **分析**:这表明强制参加该严格健身计划会引发更多健康问题,可能会增加医疗费用,不利于降低健康保险成本,起到了削弱作用。
### 答案
正确答案是A。