Springfield Fire Commissioner: the vast majority of false fire alarms are prank calls made anonymously from fire alarm boxes on street corners. Since virtually everyone has access to a private telephone, these alarm boxes have outlived their usefulness. Therefore, we propose to remove the boxes. Removing the boxes will reduce the number of prank calls without hampering people’s ability to report a fire.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the claim that the proposal, if carried out, will have the announced effect?
A. The fire department traces all alarm calls made from private telephones and records where they came from.
B. Maintaining the fire alarm boxes costs Springfield
approximately five million dollars annually.
C. A telephone call can provide the fire department with more information about the nature and size of a fire than can an alarm placed from an alarm box.
D. Responding to false alarms significantly reduces the fire department’s capacity for responding to fires.
E. On any given day, a significant percentage of the public telephones in Springfield
are out of service.
a 为什么不对，题目是最能支持，我觉得A是最根本，一个连私人电话都最终不了怎么去救火，救火首先要确定火报警是在哪个地方，火源是哪里，接下来才去定型火的性质，大小。我觉得A比C好，感觉C有点跳跃了的思维。大家认为呢。 搞不明白，答案选C，我个人后来感觉是题目问的是will have the announced affect， 这样的话C比A好，假如没有这几个词是不是A更好呢。
作者: w3d001 时间: 2009-11-25 09:29
我不是牛 我觉得A有点无关 首先是all 太绝对，然后同时有可能以前box call的时候就已经追踪了电话，暗含这种假设。所以a的是不是一个优点，我觉得是，但是是一个不能在原文中hold的优点。 相反c的话 more information than box cal l-----fire department affect，直接针对evidence 的范围reduce the number of prank calls without hampering people’s ability to report a fire 展示去A事物 b事物的优点。一起探讨，共同提高哈