GWD-TN-24 Q36

36。Although the discount stores in Goreville’s central shopping district are expected to close within five years as a result of competition from a SpendLess discount department store that just opened, those locations will not stay vacant for long.  In the five years since the opening of Colson’s, a nondiscount department store, a new store has opened at the location of every store in the shopping district that closed because it could not compete with Colson’s.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

A.      Many customers of Colson’s are expected to do less shopping there than they did before the SpendLess store opened.

B.       Increasingly, the stores that have opened in the central shopping district since Colson’s opened have been discount stores.

C.      At present, the central shopping district has as many stores operating in it as it ever had.

D.      Over the course of the next five years, it is expected that Goreville’s population will grow at a faster rate than it has for the past several decades.

E.       Many stores in the central shopping district sell types of merchandise that are not available at either SpendLess or Colson’s.

试着解释下。

题干大意：

自从一个名叫Spendless的折扣百货商店开业后，位于Goreville中心购物区的折扣商店面临了很多竞争，并且这些折扣商店会在五年内倒闭。但是，这些商店所在地点/位置/商铺，并不会空很久。因为，自从正价百货商店Colson's开业五年来，购物区的每个商店由于无法与Colson’s竞争而倒闭后，就有一个新的店重新在原来的位置上开业。

题目类型：Weaken题，从五个选项中选出，能够否定题干的选项。

A.很多消费者会做较少的购物，与他们在Spendless开业前相比。
B.自从Colson's百货商店开业后，在中心购物区，有越来越多的折扣点开业。
C.目前，中心购物区商店的数量与它之前的一样。
D.五年后，Goreville的人口会有一个大的增长，与过去的几十年相比。
E.中心购物区里面的很多商店所销售的产品，无法在Sendless或者Colson's买到。

答案：E

请批评指正。

The answer is B

The argument states that the land of stores that closed because of failure in the competition with SpendLess discount department store will not be vacant. It holds this position because once a store that is unable to compete with Colson, a nondiscount store, closed ,a new one has opened in the very place of the its former. What can weaken this argument? If most of the stores opened after the close of former ones are discount stores, then their subsistence cannot be due to other’s close, but to their non –compete relations with Colson. Therefore, this condition cannot analog to a future one because more stores that have to compete with top-class members,SpendLess discount department ,exist now.

请问celery28，答案是什么

同意4楼，选B

E中心购物区里面的很多商店所销售的产品，无法在Sendless或者Colson's买到

如果很多商品都无法在C买到，那么就会有新的店开张来卖这些商品（此情况在C得到验证）。商品在S没法买到，那么S那边的空位也不会长久，反而会支持原结论。