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19.   Editorial: It is clear that if this country’s universities were living up to both their moral and their intellectual responsibilities, the best-selling publications in most university bookstores would not be frivolous ones like TV Today and Gossip Review. However, in most university bookstores the only publication that sells better than Gossip Review is TV Today.

If the statements in the editorial are true, which one of the following must also be true on the basis of them?

(A) People who purchase publications that are devoted primarily to gossip or to television programming are intellectually irresponsible.

(B) It is irresponsible for university bookstores to carry publications such as Gossip Review and TV Today.

(C) Most people who purchase publications at university bookstores purchase either TV Today or Gossip Review.

(D) Many people who attend this country’s universities fail to live up to both their moral and their intellectual responsibilities.（E）

(E) At least some of this country’s universities are not meeting their moral responsibilities or their intellectual responsibilities or both.

DEAR FRIENDS :why can we choose B?why choose E?

always pay attention to these words, .

   Editorial: It is clear that if this country’s universities were living up to both their moral and their intellectual responsibilities, the best-selling publications in most university bookstores would not be frivolous ones like TV Today and Gossip Review. However, in most university bookstores the only publication that sells better than Gossip Review is TV Today.

especially be careful to the content behind " however"

from the last sentense, we know that among the publications in most univ, TV today is the best selling one , and Gossip Review is the second.  ( since the only publication better sold than G is T, there will not be any other type ahead of G)

So, at least some univ fail to meet ... standard.  E