OG11-9

9. Mayor: In each of the past five years, the city has cut school funding and each time school officials complained that the cuts would force them to reduce expenditures for essential services. But each time, only expenditures for nonessential services were actually reduced. So school officials can implement further cuts without reducing any expenditures for essential services.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the mayor's conclusion?

(A)        The city's schools have always provided essential services as efficiently as they have provided nonessential services.

(B)        Sufficient funds are currently available to allow the city's schools to provide some nonessential services.

(C)        Price estimates quoted to the city's schools for the provision of nonessential services have not increased substantially since the most recent school-funding cut.

(D)       Few influential city administrators support the funding of costly nonessential services in the city's schools.

(E)        The city's school officials rarely exaggerate the potential impact of threatened funding cuts. Argument Evaluation

这个题目 我有点迷糊。。OG的解释理解不透。。。我选择的是d...因为没有人会支持costly nonessential services ，也就是说明，在funding 减少的情况下，不会减少essential services的开支。。mayor的论断就是基于这种假设的。。

但答案是b

请求高人指点

D是无关项。注意mayor's conclusion is that school officials can implement further cuts without reducing any expenditures for essential services

mayor用以前的例子支持自己提议，虽然减少经费，但是只是影响到nonessential services，所以经费可以进一步减少，前提是还有nonessential services are funded by the funding. 也就是B了。

我想起了 钱永强的理解方法了。。就是把选项取反。。。。

对于d,取反以后，就是说 some influential city administrators support the funding of costly nonessential services in the city's schools..这样并不能影响到最后mayor 的推论

而如果把b取反以后，得到Insufficient funds are currently available to allow the city's schools to provide some nonessential services..这样，在政府投入减少的情况下，学校就只能减少essential services的预算了。。。由于与mayor 的推论有矛盾。所以该项是正确的。。

但问题是，在考试的时候不可能有那么多时间作分析。。。。

哎。。期望大家指点迷津啊！！！

不好意思, 我不理解A, 若提供必要性服务与非必要性服务都一样有效率的话, 不是说明非必要性服务的FUNDING很充分吗? 资金不充分的话,提供非必要性服务就不会那么有效率啦?

but A says 'efficiently', out of scope.  无论是有效率还是无效率都无关

p.s. 丽香mm 儿时的梦中情人啊 hoho

我觉得肯定是B了

因为学校有足够的钱，所以非但没有减少必要的开支，而且还有钱去提供其他非必要的服务。所以市长认为还可以减少学校的经费。

个人感觉D没有什么关系