大全 03-07

7.     People tend to estimate the likelihood of an event’s occurrence according to its salience; that is, according to how strongly and how often it comes to their attention.

By placement and headlines, newspapers emphasize stories about local crime over stories about crime elsewhere and about many other major events.

It can be concluded on the basis of the statements above that, if they are true, which of the following is most probably also true?

(A) The language used in newspaper headlines about local crime is inflammatory and fails to respect the rights of suspects.

(B) The coverage of international events in newspapers is neglected in favor of the coverage of local events.

(C) Readers of local news in newspapers tend to overestimate the amount of crime in their own localities relative to the amount of crime in other places.

(D) None of the events concerning other people that are reported in newspapers is so salient in people’s minds as their own personal experiences.（C）

(E) The press is the news medium that focuses people’s attention most strongly on local crimes.

The answer is C, could anyone explain why E is wrong?

passage说：

1 人们会根据强度和频率（即显著性）来估计事件发生的可能

2 报纸会着重当地的犯罪事件

题干的实质是问conclustion，即把1信息和2信息结合起来，即人们会根据报纸着重当地的犯罪事件而高估了当地的犯罪事件

E的答案是强调了媒体的目的，但passage里没有讨论媒体报道的目的问题，只是说了这样一个现象！且并没有说媒体是因为人们的注意力习惯所以媒体着重当地的犯罪活动，没有这个因果逻辑关系。所以我认为是属于无关话题

仅供参考~！