新gre考试阅读逻辑题练习(第二套)_GRE阅读

新gre考试阅读逻辑题练习(第二套)

　　 The average large business contributes more money to politicians campaign funds than the average small business does.

　　6 In the workplace, influenza is typically spread by infected individuals to others with whom they work in close quarters. A new medication that suppresses the symptoms of influenza therefore will actually increase the number of influenza cases, because this medication will allow people who would otherwise be home in bed to return to work while infected.

　　Which of the following, if true, most seriously chal-lenges the prediction?

　　 Coughing, a symptom of influenza that the new medication suppresses, is a primary mechanism in the spread of this illness.

　　 Some medications that are used to suppress symptoms of influenza are also used by many people to treat symptoms that are caused not by influenza but by other illnesses.

　　 Many workers who now remain at home when infected with influenza do so because the symptoms of influenza prevent them from per-forming their jobs effectively.

　　 Most adults who are immunized against influ-enza in order to avoid being infected are over

　　65 years old and retired and thus do not work outside the home.

　　 Symptoms of an illness are often the bodys means of curing itself of the illness, and there-fore suppression of symptoms can prolong the illness that causes them.