费费-23, 是不是笔误?

23. On a certain day, nine scheduled flights on Swift Airlines were canceled. Ordinarily, a cancellation is due to mechanical problems with the airplane scheduled for a certain flight. However, since it is unlikely that Swift would have the mechanical problems with more than one or two scheduled flights on a single day, some of the nine cancellations were probably due to something else.

The argument depends on which one of the following assumptions?

A.        More than one or two airplanes were scheduled for the nine canceled flights.

B.        Swift Airlines has fewer mechanical problems than do other airlines of the same size.

C.        Each of the canceled flights would have been longer than the average flight on Swift Airlines.

D.       Swift Airlines had never before canceled more than one or two scheduled flights on a single day.

E.        All of the airplanes scheduled for the canceled flights are based at the same airport.

参考答案：A 采用取非法。

思路：否定More than one or two airplanes were scheduled for the nine canceled flights.将削弱作者的结论。

文中是1 or 2 flights, A中是1 or 2 airplanes, 这样A取非也不会削弱啦. 就算一架飞机飞9个flights,但根据文中,unlikely to have mechanical problems with more than one or two scheduled flights,说明那架飞机最多只能cause problems with 1 or two flights.

谢谢

呵呵，当时突然有事没写完，基于airplanes大于flights这个事实，我是赞同你的意见的。