请教大全-1-16

alana2003 · 发表于 2003-11-16 03:41:00

16. In a political system with only two major parties, the entrance of a third-party candidate into an election race damages the chances of only one of the two major candidates. The third-party candidate always attracts some of the voters who might otherwise have voted for one of the two major candidates, but not voters who support the other candidate. Since a third-party candidacy affects the two major candidates unequally, for reasons neither of them has any control over, the practice is unfair and should not be allowed.
If the factual information in the passage above is true, which of the following can be most reliably inferred from it?
(A) If the political platform of the third party is a compromise position between that of the two major parties, the third party will draw its voters equally from the two major parties.
(B) If, before the emergence of a third party, voters were divided equally between the two major parties, neither of the major parties is likely to capture much more than one-half of the vote.
(C) A third-party candidate will not capture the votes of new voters who have never voted for candidates of either of the two major parties.
(D) The political stance of a third party will be more radical than that of either of the two major parties.
(E) The founders of a third party are likely to be a coalition consisting of former leaders of the two major parties.
答案是B,能分析一下解题思路吗？谢谢！

番茄炒蛋 · 发表于 2003-11-17 00:04:00

这题我也真是忘记了，高人来回答一下啊，要不今晚我又要睡不着觉咯，呼呼

alana2003 · 发表于 2003-11-17 02:36:00

怎么没有人帮忙呢，真急死人了！

mythicalman · 发表于 2003-11-17 03:25:00

排除法，只有B可能对。你哪个选犯迷糊？

alana2003 · 发表于 2003-11-17 04:53:00

如果不用排除法，如何解释b,是因为文中提到“for reasons neither of them has any control over“吗?
另外我记得新东方老师说过如果选项中if条件之后所提供的信息文中没有牵涉，那么这个选项一定不是正确答案。那么b选项中 “If, before the emergence of a third party, voters were divided equally between the two major parties“文中似乎也没有提到呀，所以我也把它给排除了。
有点搞糊涂了，能帮我理理顺吗？

jimz · 发表于 2003-11-17 05:31:00

In my opinion, B is the assumption the argument depends on. if you +not to B, you can see the argument will collapse. if B is not true, then one party can attract some of voters from the other, the conclusion that the practice is unfair and should not be allowed can not be safely drawn because the practice already exists even without the third party.

I am not so sure whether I make it clear.

kathy72 · 发表于 2003-11-17 10:15:00

题目说出现第三党的候选人只能吸引两个主要政党的支持者。因此如果两党支持者各占50%，被分流了一部分后支持者都不足50%了。

A 错在 equally
C 推不出。题目没有说第三党对 new voters 的吸引情况。只说了对已有VOTERS 的吸引情况。
D。既然第三党可吸引两党的支持者，说明其platform 的主张应在两党之间，而不可能更加极端。
E 推不出。没有证据显示第三党前两党人士组成的。

alana2003 · 发表于 2003-11-17 10:25:00

谢谢各位的分析解释，明白了！

番茄炒蛋 · 发表于 2003-11-18 00:53:00

再问：
1。the practice 是什么？
2。B 选项是放之四海而皆准的，和原文没有什么关系啊，难道这也可以说是由原文推出来的？
两个人分一个苹果，如果两人要一样多，那当然不可能超过一半的咯
ACDE的确是有不对的地方，可这个B看的实在是不顺眼

alana2003 · 发表于 2003-11-18 02:14:00

我的理解是：
1、the practice 是指the entrance of a third-party candidate into an election race
2、b选项中，在第三党加入之前，如果the two major parties的voters 各一半，由文中第三党只吸引the two major parties的voters ，所以在第三党加入后the two major parties的voters都不到一半了。

请教大全-1-16

请教大全-1-16

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