[求助]GWD17-9 帮帮忙吧各位

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Press Secretary:  Our critics claim that the President’s recent highway project cancellations demonstrate a vindictive desire to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.  They offer as evidence the fact that 90 percent of the projects canceled were in such districts. But all of the canceled projects had been identified as wasteful in a report written by respected nonpartisan auditors.  So the President’s choice was clearly motivated by sound budgetary policy, not partisan politics.

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Which of the following is an assumption on which the press secretary’s argument depends?

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1. Canceling highway projects was not the only way for the President to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.
   
2. The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts controlled by the President’s party.
   
3. The number of projects canceled was a significant proportion of all the highway projects that were to be undertaken by the government in the near future.
   
4. The highway projects canceled in districts controlled by the President’s party were not generally more expensive than the projects canceled in districts controlled by opposition parties.
   
5. Reports by nonpartisan auditors are not generally regarded by the opposition parties as a source of objective assessments of government projects.

answer b mine e

前提:被取消项目90%在反对党控制地区(专家建议表明此取消是合理的)

结论:PresidenT的选择是因为BUGET的客观原因而非偏见

Weaken:结论的可能:如果执政党所在地区也同样有很多应该被取消的项目但未被取消,则还是证明PresidenT有党派偏见

答案B排除了此Weaken的可能性

无关选项,E取非验证,结论未必不成立