第一道是OG里的
Although the discount stores in Goreville's centralshopping district are expected to close within five years as a result ofcompetition from a SpendLess discount department store that just opened, thoselocations will not stay vacant for long. In the five years since the opening ofColson's, a nondiscount department store, a new store has opened at thelocation of every store in the shopping district that closed because it couldnot compete with Colson's. Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakensthe 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. |
答案是B
第二道是Prep里的
Which of the followingcompletes the argument below.
Twenty percent of the stores in Morganville's downtownshopping district will fail within five years because they will be competingdirectly with the Savemart discount department store newly opened in EastMorganville. The downtown shopping district has lost business at this ratebefore and has always completey rebounded. Confidence that it will reboundagain from the losses it is now about to suffer is ill founded, however,because _____________________
A) the stores likely to be put out of business by directcompetition from Savemart are the downtown shopping district's anchor stores,on whose ability to draw shoppers many of the other downtown stores depend
B) the bus line that has long connected the downtown area ofMorganville with East Morganville has a tradition of carrying shoppers whoreside in East Morganville into downtown Morganville to shop
C) when the downtown shopping district has rebounded before,the business premises of a failed business were typically taken over by abusiness of the same kind as had been there before
D) Savemart's business plan for the East Morganville store isbased on earning low profits, if any, during the first 5 years of store'sexistence
E) it is conceivable that the downtown shopping districtcould shrink substantially without collapsing altogether
答案是A
[size=14.007px]第二题Ron解释了 “ (c) gives us no reason to believe that the same pattern won't be followed again this time. in other words, (c) just says "here's the way it happened the last few times" -- but there's nothing here that precludes the possibility that the same thing could happen yet again.”
[size=14.007px]我的问题是如果把第二题里排除C选项的逻辑也用在第一题里,那么岂不是也不能假设正确B选项里的trend会持续?
提前感谢大家了!
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