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Editorial:
The mayor plans to deactivate the city’s fire alarm boxes, because most calls received from
them are false alarms. The mayor claims that the alarm boxes are no longer necessary, since most people now have access to either public or private telephone. But the city’s commercial district, where there is the greatest risk of fire, has few residents and few public telephones, so some alarm boxes are still necessary.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the editorial’s argument?
(A) Maintaining the fire alarm boxes costs the city more than five million dollars annually.
(B) Commercial buildings have automatic fire alarm systems that are linked directly to the fire department.
(C) The fire department gets less information from an alarm box than it does from a telephone call.
(D) The city’s fire department is located much closer to the residential areas than to the commercial district.
(E) On average, almost 25 percent of the public telephones in the city are out of order.
mayor的argument包含以下含义:
1、fire boxes要deactive;因为大多数人可以很方便的使用电话报警
2、由于商业区人少,电话少,所以应该继续使用fire boxes
正确答案是B,我觉得可以理解;因为显然可以削弱上述的第二点;
那E呢??!!由于20%的电话out of order,所以fire boxer整体上还是有保留的必要性啊?也就是说fire boxes是不可以deactive的;这不是weaken了mayor要deactive的观点么!!
根据OG的解释,这个argument主要是围绕bzness district的fire boxes的,我不觉得这样的解释合理。
请各位多多指教!
[此贴子已经被作者于2004-10-31 18:28:05编辑过] |