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Press Secretary:  Our critics claim that the President’s recent highway project cancellations demonstrate a vindictive desire to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.  They offer as evidence the fact that 90 percent of the projects canceled were in such districts.  But all of the canceled projects had been identified as wasteful in a report written by respected nonpartisan auditors.  So the President’s choice was clearly motivated by sound budgetary policy, not partisan politics.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the press secretary’s argument depends?

1. Canceling highway projects was not the only way for the President to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.
2. The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts controlled by the President’s party.
3. The number of projects canceled was a significant proportion of all the highway projects that were to be undertaken by the government in the near future.
4. The highway projects canceled in districts controlled by the President’s party were not generally more expensive than the projects canceled in districts controlled by opposition parties.
5. Reports by nonpartisan auditors are not generally regarded by the opposition parties as a source of objective assessments of government projects.

答案Ｂ，　我选Ｄ

原文中讲：　 They offer as evidence the fact that 90 percent of the projects canceled were in such districts，（legislative districts controlled by opposition parties），是因为取消项目的地区中，反对方占了９０％，所以　President’s party　占１０％，得出

were not mostly projects in districts么？　这可以算是Assumption么？

选D的理由， 秘书讲：the President’s choice was clearly motivated by sound budgetary policy, not partisan politics； 

总统区的项目were not generally more expensive than the projects canceled in districts controlled by opposition parties. 支持了秘书的说法，反之则削弱。。。个人认为可以作为Assumption.

请指教！

PS。GWD1-13的题目之前的讨论贴很充足，但是13以后的题目条讨论似乎很少啊。。。

GWD17-9:这里容有两个概念，wasteful VS canceled

先裁定Wasteful，政府再决定要不要Cancel。

就像法院决定有罪，再决定要不要判刑。

将第二个选项取非：如果A党比B党有更多的工程被判定浪费，但是A最终被取消的工程却比B少。

那大概就是不公平了，damage到argument.

所以B是Assumption~