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2love2live · 发表于 2004-1-11 22:48:00

whenever a major airplane accident occurs, there is a dramatic increase in the number of airplane mishaps reported, a phenomenon that may last for as long as a few months after the accident. Airline officials assert that the publicity given the gruesomeness of the major airplane accidents focuses media attention on the airline industry, and the increase in the number of reported accidents is caused by an increase in the number of news sources covering airline accidents, not by an increase in the number of accidents.

which of the following, if true, would seriously weaken the assertions of the airline officials?

a: the publicity srurounding airline accidents is largely limited to the coutnry in which the crach occurred.
b: airline accidents tend to occur far more often during certain peak travel months.
c: news organizations do not have any guidelines to help them decide how severe or how close an accident must be for it to receive coverage
d: airplane accidents receive coverage by news sources only when the new sources find it advantageous to do so.
e: studies by government regulators show that the number o fairplane flight miles remains relatively constant from month to month.

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搞不懂到底改选谁

番茄炒蛋 · 发表于 2004-1-11 23:40:00

答案选b啊
作为一个weaken就是找出一个反驳原文的理由嘛
因为的确是飞机事故增加了很多所以才会有很多报道的，而不是什么媒体的错误导向
应该归属于他因削弱吧

还有啊，下次你最后还是把答案一起贴出来吧

2love2live · 发表于 2004-1-12 00:01:00

对不起，忘了贴答案，答案的确是B，但是我想不通 - 是否是因为受题干第一句影响太多？是否应该完全不理第一句？这个‘whenever'让我很想不通。我很想选D,炒蛋兄能否解释一下为什么D不对？

番茄炒蛋 · 发表于 2004-1-12 00:17:00

only when the new sources find it advantageous to do so.
原文中并没有给出new sources这样做是advantageous or disadvantageous
这样一个没有定论的条件是无法作为一个削弱条件出现的

把握原文最基本的精神，原文说新闻报道是有问题
那么削弱里面就应该说新闻报道是正确无误的，找出一个条件说明这个就可以了

2love2live · 发表于 2004-1-12 00:52:00

看来我想多了，谢谢指点

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