Although the discount storesin Goreville'scentral shopping district are expectedto closewithin five years as a result of competition from a SpendLess discountdepartment store that just opened,those locations will not stay vacant for long.In thefive years since the openingof Colson's,a nondiscountdepartment store, a new store has opened atthe locationof everystore in the shopping districtthat closed because it couldnot compete with Colson's. 答案 B
Whichof thefollowing, if true, most seriously weakens the argument? (A) Many customers ofColson's are expected to doless shopping there than theydid beforethe SpendLess store opened. (B) Increasingly, the storesthat have opened in thecentral shopping district since Colson'sopened have been discount stores.
(0 Atpresent, the central shopping districthas asmany stores operating in itas itever had. (D) Over the courseof thenext five years, it isexpected that Goreville's population will grow at afaster rate than it has forthe pastseveral decades. (E) Many stores inthe centralshopping district sell types ofmerchandise that are not availableat either SpendLess or Colson's. |