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It is widely assumed that a museum is helped financially when a generous patron donates a potential exhibit. In truth, however, donated objects require storage space, which is not free, and routine conservation, which is rather expensive. Therefore, such gifts exacerbate rather than lighten the demands made on a museum’s financial resources.

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

(A) To keep patrons well disposed, a museum will find it advisable to put at least some donated objects on exhibit rather than merely in storage.

(B) The people who are most likely to donate valuable objects to a museum are also the people who are most likely to make cash gifts to it.

(C) A museum cannot save money by resorting to cheap storage under less than adequate conditions, because so doing would drive up the cost of conservation.

(D) Patrons expect a museum to keep donated objects in its possession rather than to raise cash by selling them.（E）

(E) Objects donated by a patron to a museum are often of such importance that the museum would be obliged to add them to its collection through purchase if necessary.

E我明白，可是Ｂ．为什么不对？这些人捐东西的同时也捐钱．不就解决了钱的问题吗？对结论削弱了。怎么不对了？

绕不过来了．．

B: cash gifts may still amount to less than the cost of storage and routine conservation.

E: museum反正自己要买, 说明2件事1) 省了purchase cost 2)storage and routine conservation are not extra cost, but something already budgeted by the museum.