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6. Sales manager: Last year the total number of meals sold in our company restaurants was much higher than it was the year before. Obviously consumers find our meals desirable.

Accountant: If you look at individual restaurants, however, you find that the number of meals sold actually decreased substantially at every one of our restaurants that was in operation both last year and the year before. The desirability of our meals to consumers has clearly decreased, given that this group of restaurants---the only ones for which we have sales figures that permit a comparison between last year and the year before---demonstrates a trend toward fewer sales

Which one of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the accountant’s argument

我觉的A好象不能说销售数据下滑是和dropped from their menus most of the new dishes有关(因为drop off那些food 或许是卖的不好的,这样的话就不能support销售数据下滑).而E说的收入是能和这有关的(收入下降了,人们花的就少,这是common sense的).

Accountant的结论是manager的否命题consumers find our meals desirable.  is not correct

E 给出了他因Most of the company’s restaurants that were in operation throughout both last year and the year before are located in areas where residents experienced a severe overall decline in income last year.解释了下降的原因是上述的句子，而不是consumers find our meals desirable.