大全I-1，为何A不对？

一道很具迷惑的题目，已有8位英雄折腰！（答案）
A mail order company recently had a big jump in clothing sales after hiring a copywriter and a graphic artist to give its clothing catalog a magazine-like format designed to appeal to a more upscale clientle.The company is now planing to launch a housewares catalog using the same concept.
The company's plan assumes that
a)other housewares catalogs with magazinelike formats do not already exist
b)an upscale clientelte would be interested in a housewares catalog
c)the same copywriter and graphic artist could be employed for both the clothing and housewares catalogs
d)a magazinelike format requires a copywriter and a graphic artist
e)customers to whom the old clothing catalog appealed would continue to make purchases from catalogs with the new format

这道题The princeton review编的那本 cracking the GMAT上有明确的解释。请看：

Cracking the GMAT
GMAT Diagnostic Test Verbal Bin One(P374)
The correct answer is (B)

This is an analogy argument.The magazine-like houseware catalog is being launched because the company expects it to appeal to the same upscale clientele that its clothing catalog appealed to.The key word in the passage that might have alerted you to the analogy was the word"same".The assumption on which this argument depends is that the two catalogues are analogous--that it actually will attract the same clientele.(A),(C),(D)and (E)are all outside the scope of the argument.The correct answer is choice(B).






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