大全20－3

大全-20-3.       Last year in the United States, women who ran for state and national offices were about as likely to win as men. However, only about fifteen percent of the candidates for these offices were women. Therefore, the reason there are so few women who win elections for these offices is not that women have difficulty winning elections but that so few women want to run.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the conclusion given?

(A) Last year the proportion of women incumbents who won reelection was smaller than the proportion of men incumbents who won reelection.

(B) Few women who run for state and national offices run against other women.

(C) Most women who have no strong desire to be politicians never run for state and national offices.

(D) The proportion of people holding local offices who are women is smaller than the proportion of people holding state and national offices who are women.（E）

(E) Many more women than men who want to run for state and national offices do not because they cannot get adequate funding for their campaigns.

答案是E。看了讨论，没明白。

前提：去年美国竞选，妇女任官员的胜算和男人一样。但是只有15％的候选人是妇女。

结论：因此，妇女赢得竞选人数少的原因是不是她们没有能力赢，而是她们参选的人数太少。

选项E：女人比那些愿意任官员的男人多是因为她们能够获得充足的竞选资金。

我不明白E怎么削弱结论了，还是我对E的理解有问题？

E) Many more women than men who want to run for state and national offices do not because they cannot get adequate funding for their campaigns.

女性比男性多， who want to run for state and national offices do not +“run”＝＝＝》解释了什么样的人：一些想run for办公室但是其实没有run成的人，这样的人里，女的比男的多。

这里把do not 替换为 but failed就很好理解了。

因此：E是说没有run成的人里女的多，因为他们没钱。weaken结论，很少有人不愿意。

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坦白讲：E单纯本身来说，写的非常不好，有歧异。