1.         GWD-25-Q22(有争议 a c)
     

Springfield Fire Commissioner: the vast majority of false fire alarms

are prank calls made anonymously from fire alarm boxes on street

corners. Since virtually everyone has access to a private telephone,

these alarm boxes have outlived their usefulness. Therefore, we

propose to remove the boxes. Removing the boxes will reduce the

number of prank calls without hampering people’s ability to report a fire.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the claim that the

proposal, if carried out, will have the announced effect?

A.     The fire department traces all alarm calls made from private telephones and records where they came from.

B.     Maintaining the fire alarm boxes costs Springfield approximately five million dollars annually.

C.     A telephone call can provide the fire department with more information about the nature and size of a fire than can an alarm placed from an alarm box.

D.     Responding to false alarms significantly reduces the fire department’s capacity for responding to fires.

E.      On any given day, a significant percentage of the public telephones in Springfield are out of service.

我搜了下以前的一个讨论贴，绝大多数人都选A(参考答案给的是C),主要理由是：C 和 D 都是说明用 private phone 带来的好处，而不是解释 "without hampering people's ability to report a fire"。

我原先选的是C，看完此帖后顿觉A很有道理，BUT现在再一想，似乎觉得还是C对。因为要支持的claim的主体毕竟还是“Removing the boxes will reduce the number of prank calls without hampering people’s ability to report a fire”中的removing the boxes呀，而a固然能支持 reduce the number of prank calls,但与fire alarm box没什么关系，即便不采取remove the boxes, A总是能减少prank calls的，所以并非很好的支持了结论。
      

大家怎么看呢？

I also vote for C.

I consider A as irrelevant.

C

大家仔细读一下加强的部分:

 Removing the boxes will reduce the
        number of prank calls without hampering people’s ability to report a fire.

再注意一下黄色区域里people’s ability to report a fire.

只有C加强的是people’s ability to report

这样看来A.D都是无关