109.Springfield Fire Commissioner: The vast majority offalse fire alarms are prank calls made anonymouslyfrom fire alarm boxes on street corners. Since virtuallyeveryone has access to a private telephone, thesealarm boxes have outlived their usefulness. Therefore,we propose to remove the boxes. Removing the boxeswill reduce the number of prank calls withouthampering 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 $5 million annually.
(0A 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.
答案是A..没有问题· 只是不知道为什么OG说E选项是weakens support for (2):doing so will not hamper people's ability to report fires 自己觉得public telephones在这儿是无关选项吖··又不懂OG了···
C discusses the ability to give specific information about a fire. The ability to provide SPECIFICS is not the same as the ability to REPORT a fire -- the only issue at hand here. The ability to REPORT a fire could still be hampered if private phones are not able to reach the fire department as readily as alarm boxes. Even more troubling, C says only that a telephone call CAN provide more information; it does not say that telephone calls actually DO provide more information.
conclusion: Removing the boxeswill reduce the number of prank calls without hampering people's ability to report a fire why we must reduce the number of prank calls ?
because; The vast majority offalse fire alarms are prank calls made anonymously from fire alarm boxes on street corners
why we can't have false alarms
because : Responding to false alarms significantly reduces the fire department's capacity for responding