OG12 CR104的分析，和很多人一样被折磨甚久，发现《OG12CR分类by毛毛》上说的貌似不对。

christina1314

Q104. Although the discount stores in Goreville's central shopping district are expected to close within five years as a result of competition from a SpendLess discount department store that just opened, those locations will not stay vacant for long. In the five years since the opening of Colson‘s, a non-discount department store, a new store has opened at the location of every store in the shopping district that closed because it could not compete with Colson’s.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

(A) Many customers of Colson’s are expected to do less shopping there than they did before the SpendLess store opened.

(B) Increasingly, the stores that have opened in the central shopping district since Colson’s opened have been discount stores.

(C) At present, the central shopping district has as many stores operating in it as it ever had.

(D) Over the course of the next five years, it is expected that Goreville’s population will grow at a faster rate than it has for the past several decades.

(E) Many stores in the central shopping district sell types of merchandise that are not available at either SpendLess or Colson’s.


答案是B。


对于我而言，题目难在意思的理解上。该题《OG12CR分类by毛毛》分析错了，但按该文之前的解题思路我想应该是这样：
Conclusion：现在，被折扣店S淘汰的店的旧址上会开新店，不会空置太久。
Reasoning：以前，被非折扣店C淘汰的店的旧址上开了新店。

Reasoning通过类比来支持Conclusion。要削弱结论，就要找出 两种情况的不同使类比不成立。

找不同：<折扣店和非折扣店被称为不同的零售业态。>

S和C的关系和发展情形是这样的——
（1）非折扣店C很牛逼，同种业态的其他商店难与之匹敌，无法生存（旧店被干掉，新店开出来也会被干掉，即非折扣店市场被C垄断了）；
（2）但是不同业态的商店即折扣店，则市场空白，需求日益旺盛，逐渐出现许多新的商店，即新的折扣店来取代被干掉的非折扣店的位置；
（3）当折扣店市场里出现老大S了，那些实力不够的折扣店也通通会被干掉。正如C时代一样。但是那些店被干掉之后，也一样会出现别的新店吗？未必。
因为，新出现的店若仍是折扣店则必然竞争不过S会被干掉（即答案B，成功weaken）。
若要support/strengthen：新店是其他业态的店，则既不会与S冲突也不会被C干掉（即选项E）。

Dora94

认同这种看法

yitingwang

我的妈啊 绕死了

Sophie_glico

fogetdream 发表于 2013-8-27 03:46
我理解的是 that 修饰every store， 就是新店在旧店的地址上重新开业

谢谢，我之前想得太复杂了，我把a new store视作C这个非折扣店的一间new store在原有被他竞争掉的地方开业，于是这道题就不再是单纯的类比题了，现在想明白了，看来化繁为简是正确的，Gmat都不该自行思考得太远，谢谢了，那么久后还回复了我，真心感谢。

fogetdream

Sophie_glico 发表于 2013-8-13 22:41
顶一下，盼回复

我理解的是 that 修饰every store， 就是新店在旧店的地址上重新开业

Sophie_glico

顶一下，盼回复

Sophie_glico

想多请教一句，此话准确的意思到底是什么？ 谢谢

In the five years since the opening of Colson‘s, a non-discount department store, a new store has opened at the location of every store in the shopping district that closed because it could not compete with Colson’s.

neverland8965

解释的透彻。。顿时明白了。。被饶惨了。。！！

ssstill

强烈同意楼主！！找了这么久就你想法和我一样~

lycorisss

谢谢呀~纠结好久 终于看懂了