Q33:
Which of the following, if true, most logically completes the passage?
A recent poll found that over 80 percent of the residents of Nalmed Province favored a
massive expansion of the commuter rail (the railway system)system as a means of significantly easing congestion on the province’s highways (a wide main road that joins one town to another)and were willing to help pay for the expansion through an increase in their taxes. Nevertheless, the poll results indicate that expansion of the rail system, if successfully completed, would be unlikely to achieve its goal of easing congestion, because _______.
A. most people in favor of expanding the rail system reported less congestion during
their highway commute as the primary benefit they would experience
B. of the less than 20 percent of residents not counted as favoring the expansion,
about half claimed to have no opinion one way or the other
C. the twice-daily periods of peak congestion caused by people commuting in cars
have grown from about an hour each to almost two and a half hours each in the
past 20 years
D. expanding the commuter rail system will require the construction of dozens of
miles of new railbed
E. the proposed expansion to the commuter rail system will make it possible for
some people who both live and work at suburban locations to commute by rail
答案是A 我选的是E
A 为何是答案不理解 查过以前的讨论仍没明白谢谢
原文推理
扩展铁路交通系统减轻公路交通拥塞-调查结果显示扩展铁路交通系统并不能达到减轻公路交通拥塞的目的-问原因
A说是因为大部分希望扩展铁路交通的人将公路交通拥塞的程度说轻了。因此按照原来的计划来执行,就达不到预期的目的了。这个答案我也觉得不是很好。但是其它选项很容易排除。
E说提议的铁路系统扩展将会使那些生活工作都在郊区的人们能乘铁路交通,这个和原文的减轻公路交通的拥塞没关系。
原来的理解是有点问题。
A说大部分提倡扩展铁路交通的人报告说他们将要经历少量的公路交通拥塞当他们的公路通勤作为主要受益的时候。也就是说他们认为铁路系统修好后公路交通会有所改善,因此他们会继续使用公路,从而公路交通拥塞并没有改善。
"congestion"here only means "highways congestion",In order to alleviate the congestion on the highway.not refer the common notion of congestion.
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