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41. Since the mayor’s publicity campaign for Greenville’s bus service began six months ago, morning automobile traffic into the midtown area of the city has decreased seven percent. During the same period, there has been an equivalent rise in the number of persons riding buses into the midtown area. Obviously, the mayor’s publicity campaign has convinced many people to leave their cars at home and ride the bus to work.
Which of the following, if true, casts the most serious doubt on the conclusion drawn above?
A. Fares for all bus routes in Greenville have risen an average of five percent during the past six months.
B. The mayor of Greenville rides the bus to City Hall in the city’s midtown area.
C. Road reconstruction has greatly reduced the number of lanes available to commuters in major streets
leading to the midtown area during the past six months.
D. The number of buses entering the midtown area of Greenville during the morning hours is exactly the same
now as it was one year ago.
E. Surveys show that longtime bus riders are no more satisfied with the Greenville bus service than they were
before the mayor’s publicity campaign began.
key:C
1 我认为A对，因为对bus routes的fares提高了，所以用bus的少了。这里我理解bus是指汽车，而不是自行车，因为只可能对汽车线路收费。
还是我理解错了？是不是文中出现的bus都是一个意思，都指自行车（ride bus）。
而且对于og对A的解释也不明白：choice A eliminates decreased fare as a possible expalation for the increased ridership, so it support rather than casts on the conclusion.
明明是rise怎么变成decreased fare 了？
2 对于C Road reconstruction has greatly reduced the number of lanes available to commuters in major streets
C是不是想说commuters里包括ride bus 和drive car，他们都被限制了，所以理所当然drive car 的就少了。（但是好像无法解释ride bus增加的现象）
希望xdim,nn们，看到我的帖子，明白原因且有时间，就会一下吧，谢谢！：）
你再仔细读一下题目吧。
题目的结论是the mayor’s publicity campaign导致了人们从car转为bus。这里没有自行车啊，只有小轿车car和公共汽车bus。问你哪个选项能削弱这个结论。
A是说bus涨价了，这当然排除了票价是使人们转为bus的原因，所以是只有增强了结论，也就是OG说的。
C说是Road reconstruction使得路少了，所以人们都坐bus了。所以是他因削弱结论。
谢谢好心的jjll,以及你的精彩解释 ！
做公共汽车 ride bus, 骑自行车 ride bike
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