标题: OG 12—48,按垃圾重量收费来治理,OG解释没看懂~请教!! [打印本页] 作者: 听sophie 时间: 2011-2-21 12:45 标题: OG 12—48,按垃圾重量收费来治理,OG解释没看懂~请教!! 48. If the county continues to collect residential trash at current levels, landfills will soon be overflowing and parkland will need to be used in order to create more space. Charging each household a fee for each pound of trash it puts out for collection will induce residents to reduce the amount of trash they create; this charge will therefore protect the remaining county parkland.
Which of the following is an assumption made in drawing the conclusion above? (A) Residents will reduce the amount of trash they put out for collection by reducing the number of products they buy. (B) The collection fee will not significantly affect the purchasing power of most residents, even if their households do not reduce the amount of trash they put out. (C) The collection fee will not induce residents to dump their trash in the parklands illegally. (D) The beauty of county parkland is an important issue for most of the county’s residents. (E) Landfills outside the county’s borders could be used as dumping sites for the county’s trash.
Reasoning What assumption underlies the conclusion? The assumption will be a statement that has to be true in order for the argument’s premises to provide a solid reason for believing its conclusion. To reach the conclusion that the plan will protect the parkland, the argument must assume that county residents will comply with the new fee, reducing both the trash they generate and the need to convert parkland to landfi lls. It is assumed that residents will not resort to some illegal means of avoiding the new fee, and it is certainly assumed that they will not contribute to the destruction of parklands by dumping trash in them illegally.
A- Even though the fee may indirectly have this effect, the argument need not assume that it will; perhaps residents will continue to buy as much, but will make longer use of the product, or recycle it.
B-The argument would be stronger if this were assumed NOT to be true.