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

ddswendy

我认为是这样的，题目要求“这个理由“要非常有说服力，也就是说要阐明private fire call 对比alarm box的优势，而A只是阐述了前者可以被trace，并不代表alarm box不能被trace。

gmatbiguo

我觉得B说 A telephone call比 an alarm box能提供更详细的关于火势大小和本质的信息，我觉得和题目without hampering people’s ability to report a fire无关

flewrudy

我觉得是选a啊，og 109题，楼主相信自己！

ddswendy

题目的意思就是选一个充足的理由去支持这样的观点——去掉alarm box可以减少恶作剧报警，同时又不影响人们正常报警。
而C选项说明了：私人报警电话除了具有alarm box的功能外，还有更多优势（with more...than...)，因此当然去除alarm box不会影响正常的私人电话报警了。
再看A，如果以下条件也成立的话，alarm box还能够被撤掉么——
The fire department traces all alarm calls made from alarm boxes on street corners and records where they came from, too.

我坚持C选项。

wudiyeah

我就觉得A是对的

看了一下以后，同意答案选C

dylz1989

选c吧

gmatbiguo

The fire department traces all alarm calls made from alarm boxes on street corners and records where they came from, too.

-- by 会员 ddswendy (2011/5/11 10:38:04)

选项A直接给出 traces all alarm calls made from private telephones, 所以以上的假设应该是不成立的，private telephones 会装在street corner上么？

hanshipeng

A啊，这道题的重点，重心就是警方想避免false fire alarms are prank calls。看看这句话：Removing the boxes will reduce the number of prank calls without hampering people’s ability to report a fire. 核心就是reduce.....。所以选A。

BlancheandGMAT

A吧？我记得我当时也纠结了好久，还是要看这个proposal到底是为了什么吧