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although the  discount stores in  Goreville's central shopping district are expected to close within five years as a result of competition  from a Spendless discount department store that just opened, those locations will not stay vacant for long .in the five years since the opening of Colson's ,a nondiscount department store, a new store has opened  at the location of every store in the shopping district that closed because it could not compete with Colson's.

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 PREANT , the central shopping district has asa many stores operating in it as it ever had.

D   over the couse 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.

本题我实在混乱，主要是太多的商店一会打折一会有全价的搞的我晕忽忽的，ＮＮ们帮忙看看，讲讲题意．答案我回头再贴，以免影响ＮＮ的思路～！

忘了贴题目了不好意思～！

which of the following ,if true ,most seriously weaken sthe argument?

C－ “those locations will not stay vacant for long ”是argument。对C取非，即否定argument。（C中的at present是关键）。

B挺迷惑的。尤其是将“ a new store ”，误解成Colson商店。

我选A.

题目：although the  discount stores in  Goreville's central shopping district are expected to close within five years as a result of competition  from a Spendless discount department store that just opened, those locations will not stay vacant for long

问题：weaken the arguement above.

A表明:  这些客户在新店开张之前就已经决定减少购物了。所以，G的关门不是因为competition from S.

但是很不明白，这里出现了4种store，它们之间干什么呢？

discount store

spendless discount store

Colson's

a new store

UP.

Could someone who understand this question explain it, please?

I am quite confused on it!