一道并不典型却又很有意思的题目

This is a CR in Cambridge GMAT

The Olympic Games represent a first step in the historic movement away from war and toward the substitution from war of peaceful competition among nations. Just as professional sports in the United States proide a field in which local, regional, and even racial and enthnic hostilities may be sublimated and expressed in a controlled, harmless form, so international athletic competition may help to abolish war between nations by providing a sphere in which chauvinistic hostilities amy be harmlessly discharged.

Which of the following, if true, would weaken the argument in the passage?

A.The existence of professional sports in the United States has not completely eliminated regional and ethnic conflicts.

B.The olympic Games themselves generate intense international rivalries and emotional responses by spectators.

C.On serveral occasions, the Olypmpic Games have been cancelled or reduced in scope because of international conflicts or wars

D. Unlike professional sports, the Olympic Games are conducted on a purely amateur, not-for-profit basis.

E.War is caused primarily by objective conflicts between nations over political and economic advantages.

Ans: E

这道题目比较tricky 大家可以讨论一下答案