[求助]GWD17-9

Q9:

Press Secretary:  Our critics claim that the President’s recent highway project cancellations demonstrate a vindictive desire to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.  They offer as evidence the fact that 90 percent of the projects canceled were in such districts.  But all of the canceled projects had been identified as wasteful in a report written by respected nonpartisan auditors.  So the President’s choice was clearly motivated by sound budgetary policy, not partisan politics.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the press secretary’s argument depends?

我也不会阿

b吧,a觉得无关呀

题目：

原因：90%的取消在对手的选区，而一份报告说，100%的取消的确都是浪费。

结论：取消并不是打击报复

A.Canceling highway projects was not the only way for the President to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.

是不是唯一的报复手段，out of scope.

D.The highway projects canceled in districts controlled by the President’s party were not generally more expensive than the projects canceled in districts controlled by opposition parties.

价格贵，与报复与否无关，out of scope。

B.The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts controlled by the President’s party.

那么就是说报告的对象是有问题的，即使100%也是没有代表性的。不能因为是100%，就排除打击报复的可能性。

答案。

其实，weaken, support, evaluate, 全都是assumption题目的变形。

今天太奇怪了，不会贴不给看讨论，只好废话了。

E  Reports by nonpartisan auditors are not generally regarded by the opposition parties as a source of objective assessments of government projects.

原文前提较常见说法－－－政府决策依据－－>无党派人士审计报告是合理的，E改写这种说法：反对党不认为无党派人士审计报告是政府工程项目客观评估的来源，也就是政府决策依据不可信。否认E无法表明原文推理成立！

NN给个意见！

应该是B,这里的条件因该为nonpartisan 的报告, 结论是评论 President’s choice .与opposition parties无关.

所以, ASSUMPTION应该是补两者之间的GAP,B很好.

D有误导, 比较President Party与opposition parties谁的Projects more expensive没有与结论没有关系.

ding

这题应该选A

assumption题都应该用not+weaken方法来做，这是这类题目的性质。

A中去掉not后是

Canceling highway projects was the only way for the President to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.

可能很多人会说，即使canceling highway projects是唯一的处罚方法，但这个方法也有其他的用途，所以不能削弱。但是不能忽视的一点是，不管canceling highway projects是不是还有其他的用途，但它的确是进行处罚反对党的唯一途径，只要使用了这个方法，那么肯定产生一个或多个结果，其中最重要的结果就是“处罚了反对党”。

如果政府本来就知道这个方法会造成对其他政党的处罚，还要使用，那就很明白的指明了政府运用这个方法的目的就是用来处罚反对党。

B去掉not后，The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were mostly projects in districts controlled by the President’s party

被cancel掉的项目都在总统这边政党的辖区，那么是对结论的加强，不是削弱，所以B不可能对。