涛涛GWD30-5中的几道CR，请教

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?

1. Canceling highway projects was not the only way for the President to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.
2. The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts controlled by the President’s party.
3. The number of projects canceled was a significant proportion of all the highway projects that were to be undertaken by the government in the near future.
4. 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.
5. Reports by nonpartisan auditors are not generally regarded by the opposition parties as a source of objective assessments of government projects.

答案为B，我不明白。请高手指教。

还有此题

Which of the following, if true, would support an objection by owners of video rental stores that the fairness of the proposed legislation is not supported by the precedent cited?

1. Although the daily rental fee for home use of films is generally the same as that for video games, the average rental period for a video game is longer than that for a film.
2. Film rentals for home use tend to particularly strong during the first year after a film has been made available for both sale and rental at video rental stores.
3. Most people are interested in playing only the latest video games and tend to find video games that have been available for over a year unappealing whether they have played them before or not, whereas films maintain their appeal far longer after their release.
4. People who rent video games tend to play them by themselves, whereas people who rent films invite friends and neighbors to watch.
5. A slight decline in revenues from films that have been recently released in theaters has been attributed to the growing market for rentals of films for home use.

答案为C，谁能帮我分析一下其思路

顶,第一题什么意思啊?

我中文很差, 就说下核心内容吧.

第一题:

前提: critics说总统在报复对党, 应为他把对党地区90%的项目给砍了. 但无偏见的auditors证明了那些项目都是浪费项目.

结论: 总统的选择是建立在budgetary policy, 而不是党派间的排斥.

中间却了重要信息. 总统自党的, 被auditors证明的,浪费项目有多少? 如果总统不砍自党的浪费项目, 那他还是排斥对党.

B说被auditors证明的浪费项目多数是对党的, 所以是正确答案.

明白了。这题的桥梁是projects cancelled by the president 正是 what have been identified by the respected auditors as wasteful projects。可以将B取非，就更容易理解了。

谢谢帮我点了思路。

还是不太懂，能请楼上的MM再解释一下吗？

首先要明确：

文中并未说明projects cancelled by the president正是  what have been identified by the respected auditors as wasteful projects。所以要想加强结论，必须指明The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts controlled by the President’s party----此句话的意思就是：projects identified by auditor as wasteful 中有相当一部分不是位于总统所在党的控制区域，即在反对党的控制区域。换句话说：由反对党控制的项目中有相当一部分的确是wasteful而应该被cancelled的， 即说明the President’s choice was clearly motivated by sound budgetary policy, not partisan politics。