PrepTest 20, Section 2, Question 25
Tom: Employers complain that people graduating from high school too often lack the vocational skills required for full-time employment. Therefore, since these skills are best acquired on the job, we should require high school students to work at part-time jobs so that they acquire the skills needed for today's job market.
Tom: Employers complain that people graduating from high school too often lack the vocational skills required for full-time employment. Therefore, since these skills are best acquired on the job, we should require high school students to work at part-time jobs so that they acquire the skills needed for today's job market.
Mary: There are already too few part-time jobs for students who want to work, and simply requiring students to work will not create jobs for them.
Tom: Employers complain that people graduating from high school too often lack the vocational skills required for full-time employment. Therefore, since these skills are best acquired on the job, we should require high school students to work at part-time jobs so that they acquire the skills needed for today's job market.
Mary: There are already too few part-time jobs for students who want to work, and simply requiring students to work will not create jobs for them.
Tom: Employers complain that people graduating from high school too often lack the vocational skills required for full-time employment. Therefore, since these skills are best acquired on the job, we should require high school students to work at part-time jobs so that they acquire the skills needed for today's job market.
Which one of the following most accurately describes how Mary's response is related to Tom's argument?
It analyzes an undesirable result of undertaking the course of action that Tom recommends.
It argues that Tom has mistaken an unavoidable trend for an avoidable one.
It provides information that is inconsistent with an explicitly stated premise in Tom's argument.
It presents a consideration that undercuts an assumption on which Tom's argument depends.
It defends an alternative solution to the problem that Tom describes.
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