不明白，再问

2 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.

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

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.

再问关于B

1 scheduled high projects 是指已经通过法案吗  如果是的话，文章没说通过的也被评为浪费资源亚。

2 如果第一个问题是指cancelled project 如何解释

大部分被取消的project在反对党的 legislative district---总统的意图在于报复

新闻秘书：总统是出于公心---因为大部分被取消的project是浪费的

这里面有一个gap，难道取消浪费的project就一定是出于公心而不是公报私仇吗？b取非，The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful大部分是总统的党管辖的，那他为什么不大量取消自己管辖的project呢？很明显的假公济私。

Secretary的逻辑是

条件1、对象是反对党地区的项目，2、取消原因是浪费，且有中立方提出

结论：没有公报私仇

题目实际就是问其中的一个前提是什么，B刚好回答了条件一