LSAT－15－2－17 提干不懂（lawyer改标题）

Consumer activist: By allowing major airlines to abandon, as they promptly did, all but their most profitable routes, the government’s decision to cease regulation of the airline industry has worked to the disadvantage of everyone who lacks access to large metropolitan airport.

这是一道逻辑题，但我觉得这道题关键在于我不理解题意。 这个all but 我理解成except , 所以： 政府允许取消主要航空线，但留下最赚钱的，政府决定停止对航空业的规定对不能进入大城市机场的人不利。

the government’s decision to cease regulation of the airline industry 我也搞不懂

这里的 cease regulation 是stop regulation that the government allow major airlines to abandon all but their most profitable routes吗？

1。题意：政府允许主要航空公司只留最赚钱的航线，而放弃其它航线。政府的这种做法对没去过大都市机场的人不利。

2。cease regulation的regulation是指原来规定的不许主要航空公司不经营不赚钱的航线。

Questions 17-18

Consumer activist: By allowing major airlines to abandon, as they promptly did, all but their most profitable routes, the government’s decision to cease regulation of the airline industry has worked to the disadvantage of everyone who lacks access to large metropolitan airport.

Industry representative: On the contrary, where major airlines moved out, regional airlines have moved in and, as a consequence, there are more flights into and out of most small airports now than before the change in regulatory policy.

17.   The industry representative’s argument will not provide an effective answer to the consumer activist’s claim unless which one of the following is true?

(A) No small airport has fewer flights now than it did before the change in policy regarding regulation of the airline industry.

(B) When permitted to do so by changes in regulatory policy, each major airline abandoned all but large metropolitan airports.

(C) Policies that result in an increase in the number of flights to which consumers have easy access do not generally work to the disadvantage of consumers.

(D) Regional airlines charge less to fly a given route now than the major airlines charged when they flew the same route.（C）

(E) Any policy that leads to an increase in the number of competitors in a given field works to the long-term advantage of consumers.

18.   Which one of the following is assumption on which the consumer activist’s argument depends?

(A) Before the recent change in regulatory policy, there was no advantage in having easy access to large metropolitan airport.

(B) When any sizable group of consumers is seriously disadvantaged by a change in government policy, that change should be reversed.

(C) Government regulation of industry almost always works to the advantage of consumers.

(D) At the time of the regulatory change, the major airlines were maintaining their less profitable routes at least in part because of government requirements.（D）

(E) Regional airlines lack the resources to provide consumers with service of the same quality as that provided by the major airlines.

这种题目真是头大，就凭这句话，the government’s decision to cease regulation 出了18题，真是想破脑袋都想不通啊！

如果按照lawyer 说的，cease regulation的regulation是指原来规定的不许主要航空公司不经营不赚钱的航线。

那文章应该理解成 政府允许主要航空公司只留最赚钱的航线，而放弃其它航线。政府的这种做法（停止原来的规定的不许主要航空公司不经营不赚钱的航线。）对没去过大都市机场的人不利。

就是说政府允许只留最赚钱的航线对没去过大都市机场的人不利

我就不明白为什么 cease regulation 里的regulation 一定是指的原来的regualtion ,文章又没提到原来怎么样！怎么就不可以理解成

“如果政府允许主要航空公司只留最赚钱的航线，而放弃其它航线。政府停止这种只留最赚钱的航线的做法对没去过大都市机场的人不利。”

Lawyer兄进来看看。

The point of Question 18 is that to allow sb to do sth doesn`t necessarily implies that that person will do it .

The reasoning of the stimulus is that the government`s deregulation led to abandonment. If the reasoning is correct, we must show that the major airlines` maintenance of those less profitable routes before the deregulation is not completely caused by other reasons than government`s regulation.