OG-11第115题目

114.According to the Tristate Transportation Authority, making certain improvements to the main commuter rail line would increase ridership dramatically. The authority plans to finance these improvements over the course of five years by raising automobile tolls on the two high-way bridges along the route the rail line serves. Although the proposed improvements are indeed needed, the authority’s plan for securing the necessary funds should be rejected because it would unfairly force drivers to absorb the entire cost of something from which they receive no benefit.

Which of the following, if true, would provide the authority with the strongest counter to the objection that its plan is unfair?

A. Even with the proposed toll increase, the average bridge toll in the tristate region would remain less than the tolls charged in neighboring states.

B.Any attempt to finance the improvements by raising fares would result in a decrease in ridership and so would be self-defeating.

C.Automobile commuters benefit from well-maintained brideges, and in the tristate region bridge maintenance is funded out of general income tax revenues to which both automobile and rail commuters contribute.

D. The roads along the route served by the rail line are highly congested and drivers benefit when commuters are diverted from congested roadways to mass transit.

E. The only alternative way of funding the proposed improvements now being considered is through a regional income tax surcharge, which would affect automobile commuters and rail commuters alike.

这题的C为什么不行.不是已经说了对开车的人有益,并且资金来源于automobile and rail commuters共同的收入税,也就是说rail也出了一份力啊,为什么不能选这个??

I wrongfully chose (c) as well at first. After careful thinking, I realize my mistake came from the misunderstanding of phrase "general income tax revenues". It does not refer to the toll fee which automobile commuters contributes. It's just a tax revenue that is related to commuters' income and would hardly be affected by toll adjustion.

(C) would be a contender if it said " Automobile commuters benefit from well-maintained bridges, and in the tristate region bridge maintenace is funded out of reinvestment of toll fee collected from those commuters."