GWD31-01-29

Smithtown
                University’s fund-raisers succeeded in getting donations from 80 percent of the potential donors they contacted.  This success rate, exceptionally high for university fund-raisers, does not indicate that they were doing a good job.  On the contrary, since the people most likely to donate are those who have donated in the past, good fund-raisers constantly try less-likely prospects in an effort to expand the donor base.  The high success rate shows insufficient canvassing effort.

Which of the following, if true, provides more support for the argument?

1. Smithtown
                       University’s fund-raisers were successful in their contacts with potential donors who had never given before about as frequently as were fund-raisers for other universities in their contacts with such people.

2. This year the average size of the donations to Smithtown
                       University from new donors when the university’s fund-raisers had contacted was larger than the average size of donations from donors who had given to the university before.

3. This year most of the donations that came to Smithtown
                       University from people who had previously donated to it were made without the university’s fund-raisers having made any contact with the donors.

4. The majority of the donations that fund-raisers succeeded in getting for Smithtown
                       University this year were from donors who had never given to the university before.

5. More than half of the money raised by Smithtown
                       University’s fund-raisers came from donors who had never previously donated to the university.

答案是C。我怎么觉得这句话像是削弱呢？“大部分的‘回头客募捐’和fund-raisers 没关系”不是说明fund-raisers 的成就是从第一次募捐的人那里得来的吗?还是我的理解有误啊？

请高人指点一下吧～

这题答案是A.本题的结论是good fund-raisers constantly try less-likely prospects in an effort to expand the donor base.即好的集资人是要扩大增量，而存量的集资人集资高不能说明他们工作好。在扩大增量方面——即原先没集资的人方面——根据原文S大学和其它大学做的差不多as frequently as 。而存量方面S大学做的好，而这恰恰不能说明S大学的集资有成效。和原文结论的意思是一致的。

C我觉得捐款方式应该是无关选项。

BDE都是在说新的捐款人和新的捐款如何多，是削弱，和原文意思相悖

   原来如此，也就是说S大学开发新投资人的情况和其他学校相同，那么他的高成功率就不能说明高canvassing effort了！

      谢谢解答

I don't agree.

the conclusion is: The high success rate shows insufficient canvassing effort.

C)This year most of the donations that came to Smithtown
            University from people who had previously donated to it were made without the university’s fund-raisers having made any contact with the donors.

C says exactly what the conclusion wants to prove, hence it is the correct answer.

    我同意最后一句是结论，不过答案还是A比较合理。C的意思是旧的捐款和 fund-raisers 无关，岂不是说fund-raisers筹的钱都是新路子来的！那应该是削弱吧！

the conclusion is: The high success rate shows insufficient canvassing effort, which means that even though a lot of money was raised, those fund did not come from the official's hard work.

C says that those money actually came from people who had not been contacted by the officials, which proves exactly what the conclusion says.