谁能说服我不选AGWD25-Q22！！

gmatbiguo

Springfield Fire Commissioner: the vast majority of false fire alarms are prank calls made anonymously from fire alarm boxes on street corners. Since virtually everyone has access to a private telephone, these alarm boxes have outlived their usefulness. Therefore, we propose to remove the boxes. Removing the boxes will reduce the number of prank calls without hampering people’s ability to report a fire.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the claim that the proposal, if carried out, will have the announced effect?

A.    The fire department traces all alarm calls made from private telephones and records where they came from.
B.    Maintaining the fire alarm boxes costs Springfield approximately five million dollars annually.
C.    A telephone call can provide the fire department with more information about the nature and size of a fire than can an alarm placed from an alarm box.
D.    Responding to false alarms significantly reduces the fire department’s capacity for responding to fires.
E.    On any given day, a significant percentage of the public telephones in Springfield are out of service.
这道题给出答案是C,我选了A。A什么错？相比，文中并没有提及telephone call 和an alarm box比较，C是无关吧。。。谁能解释一下

Ken7Deng

kathyhappy 发表于 2011-6-17 14:55
S地区火灾委员说：大量虚报火警都是来自街角匿名的火警亭。因为人人都有手机，这些火警亭已经没什么用了。 ...

Beautiful! Thx for your answer!

芸丫

OG是A啊！！！！坑爹- -虽然C是蛮诱惑的~

Memery

Argument Evaluation
Situation It is proposed that fi re alarm boxes on street corners be removed. Doing so will reduce
the number of prank calls without hampering people’s ability to report fi res. Most false
alarms are prank calls made from these boxes. Th ey have outlived their usefulness, as
most people now have private telephones.
Reasoning Which option most strongly supports the claim that removing the alarm boxes will reduce the
number of prank calls without hampering people’s ability to report a fi re? Th e argument
already provides some evidence that (1) removing the boxes will reduce prank calls—
because that is where most such call are now made from—and that (2) doing so will not
hamper people’s ability to report fi res—virtually everyone already has a private telephone
from which they could report a fi re. So for an option to be correct it must support either
(1) or (2) or both, and provide more such support than the other options. If prank calls
from private telephones are traced back to their origin, that should deter people from
making such calls.
A Correct. Th is option provides the most support for the claim.
B Th is may provide a reason for supporting the proposal, but it provides no support for either
(1) or (2).
C Th is indicates that it is better to receive fi re calls from telephones than from alarm boxes—other
things being equal—but that supports neither (1) nor (2). Th ere is still the possibility that the
only person aware that a fi re has started is near an alarm box but lacks access to a telephone.
D Th is merely indicates that it would be good if the proposal had the intended eff ects.
E Th is actually weakens support for (2), by enhancing the possibility that the only person aware that
a fi re has started is near an alarm box but lacks access to a working telephone.

onlysilence222

OG原题！大家不要YY！og是基本！

miss绿光

这道题前？L已经贴出了OG的解释~而且是prep破解里的~就是A~~~

leonstar

我觉得A比C更好Argument的结论包含了两部分，第一是Removing the boxes will reduce the number of prank calls 第二是withouthampering people’s ability to report a fire. 原文提供了一个premise -- Sincevirtually everyone has access to a private telephone -- 来支持结论的第二部分。这里需要一个支持结论前半部分的选项。


选线C列举了A phone call 比alarm box报警的一些好处。所以这个选项进一步解释原文中的小结论“ Since virtually everyone has access to aprivate telephone, these alarm boxes have outlived their usefulness.”


原文第一句提到了false call的原因，"...... false fire alarms are prank calls made anonymously from fire alarm boxes..“ A选说fire department可以trace call，由此得到alarm from private call is not anonymous。所以A选项支持了结论的前一部分。

意韵甜心

这道题答案就是A啊
这道题要攻击的地方是说如何能够在不影响报警的情况下减少假报警
A说的是能够跟踪个人电话，这能够减少假报警
C说的是能够比用Abox提供更详细的情况，这条明显说是Abox还是能起到报警的作用，取消的话会影响报警效果的，肯定是错的啊。

lianlianchen

想说服你选A.
结论是Removing the boxes will reduce the number of prank calls withouthampering people’s ability to report a fire.
A=>人们就不会随便打prank calls ， 因为谁打都能被抓到， 另外，题干说了 everyone has access to a private telephone， 所以这个proposal 就不会hampering people’s ability to report a fire。不知这样解释对你有无帮助。

ike982003

C 说了private call 比 alarm box的好的地方，但是如果有任何一个alarm box 比private call好的地方，譬如电话线会被烧断而alarm box没有这种担忧，就直接把结论给weaken了。。。所以C有瑕疵啊