标题: LSAT-22-2-12 [打印本页] 作者: snow_mountain 时间: 2003-12-9 18:52 标题: LSAT-22-2-12 12. One year ago a local government initiated an antismoking advertising campaign in local newspapers which it financed by imposing a tax on cigarettes of 20 cents per pack One year later the number of people in the locality who smoke cigarettes had declined by 3 percent Clearly what was said in the advertisements had an effect although a small one on the number of people in the locality who smoke cigarettes. Which one of the following, if true, most helps to strengthen argument? (A) Residents of the locality have not increased their use of other tobacco products such as snuff and chewing tobacco since the campaign went into effect (B) A substantial number of cigarette smokers in the locality who did not quit smoking during the campaign now smoke less than they did before it began (C) Admissions to the local hospital for chronic respiratory ailments were down by 15 percent one year after the campaign began (D) Merchants in the locality responded to the local tax by reducing the price at which they sold cigarettes by 20 cents per pack (E) Smokers in the locality had incomes that on average were 25 percent lower than those of nonsmokers
答案D。 我选A。 作者: snow_mountain 时间: 2003-12-10 15:54
这条题目怎么没人回答？作者: 番茄炒蛋 时间: 2003-12-10 19:13
原文的逻辑挺好啊 通过对烟民收税来做禁烟广告，然后有3percent的减少，为了说明这是有效的，那么这些人当然是要有吸烟转为不吸烟咯 所以答案中就要排除那些其他虽然是不吸烟但还是和吸烟有关的行为作者: snow_mountain 时间: 2003-12-10 21:33
我也是这样想的呀。可是答案是D呀。作者: snow_mountain 时间: 2003-12-10 22:09
其实我觉得D也可以理解。犹豫在A-D之间。想不明白。作者: cranberry 时间: 2003-12-10 22:32
d tries to exclude one of the other possiblities for the cause of the decrease:the price .
what the passage is taking about is of antismoking,not of anti-tobacco,so a is irrelevent
