QUESTION TEXT: Tom: Employers complain that people graduating from…
QUESTION TYPE: Relationship Between Arguments
ARGUMENTS: Tom thinks we should force high school students to work at part-time jobs. That way they’ll get job skills.
Mary points out that there aren’t enough part-time jobs even for students who want jobs. We need to create more jobs before we can force people to work.
ANALYSIS: Mary adds crucial context to Tom’s argument. She points out that one of the assumptions underlying his argument isn’t true: there are no jobs that we could force people to work at.
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- Mary hasn’t really said if there would be any harm that will come when Tom’s plan inevitably fails. She just said his plan just won’t work.
Poor Tom. - Tom himself is arguing the trend is avoidable. He thinks we can give students skills by forcing them to work.
- Tom doesn’t explicitly say “There are jobs.” He just assumes there are.
- CORRECT. Tom is implying there are jobs. Mary shows he is wrong.
- Mary doesn’t offer a solution. She just says Tom’s idea won’t work.
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