标题: 下週要考試了！！！這題想好久腦子還是轉不過來 [打印本页] 作者: xx50824 时间: 2017-12-14 17:29 标题: 下週要考試了！！！這題想好久腦子還是轉不過來 Urban planner: When a city loses population due to migration, property taxes in that city tend to rise. This is because there are then fewer residents paying to maintain an infrastructure that was designed to support more people. Rising property taxes, in turn, drive more residents away, compounding the problem. Since the city of Stonebridge is starting to lose population, the city government should therefore refrain from raising property taxes.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the urban planner's argument?
(A) If Stonebridge does not raise taxes on its residents to maintain its infrastructure, the city will become much less attractive to live in as that infrastructure decays.
(B) Stonebridge at present benefits from grants provided by the national government to help maintain certain parts of its infrastructure.
(C) If there is a small increase in property taxes in Stonebridge and a slightly larger proportion of total revenue than at present is allocated to infrastructure maintenance, the funding will be adequate for that purpose.
(D) Demographers project that the population of a region that includes Stonebridge will start to increase substantially within the next several years.
(E) The property taxes in Stonebridge are significantly lower than those in many larger cities.
想請問這題的D, 我的思路是這樣: 既然demographes預測說未來人口會再大幅回升,那政府就可以放心raise property taxes,因為會有人來均分taxes fee,就不會compounding the problem. 對比A ---雖然也是同樣要raise taxes,但卻沒有對文章premise中(drive more residents>>>compound the problem）做任何考慮, 我反而覺得D比較完整全面,而A有一些缺陷.
作者: lkc_24 时间: 2024-8-21 12:30
D is very sneaky: population of a region that includes Stonebridge does not necessarily mean population of Stonebridge. What if the increasing part of the population is from areas of the region except Stonebridge?
