大全 TEST 12 --- 5

5.    The government has proposed a plan requiring young people to perform services to correct various current social ills, especially those in education and housing. Government service, however, should be compelled only in response to a direct threat to the nation’s existence. For that reason, the proposed program should not be implemented.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the government depends?

(A) Government-required service by young people cannot correct all social ills.

(B) The nation’s existence is directly threatened only in times of foreign attack.

(C) Crises in education and housing constitute a threat to the nation’s existence.

(D) The nation’s young people believe that current social ills pose no direct threat to the nation’s existence.（E）

(E) Some of the social ills that currently afflict the nation do not pose a direct threat to the nation’s existence.

答案是E 但我觉得C对  原因如下

原题不是问  政府的假设吗  原文起初是讲政府提出让青年去做服务，之后作者不同意这个提议 认为服务应该针对对社会有直接危害的事     题目是问政府的假设  不是政府认为correct various current social ills 会对社会产生直接危害 所以才让青年去服务吗   我选C   虽然C中没说是直接危害  但是毕竟是危害了  不管是不是直接  危害是最大的假设前提 而答案选E  我不懂  我认为E 若是正确答案  是假设 那么取非来看是NONE of the social ills that currently afflict the nation do not pose a direct threat to the nation’s existence.是针对作者的结论而进行削弱的  对government没有影响啊

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