Prep2012-Pack1-CR-059 Press Secretary 难题求解

shelagh

Press Secretary: Our critics claim that the president's recent highway project cancellations demonstrate a vindictive
desire to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties. They offer as evidence the fact that 90 percent
of the projects canceled were in such districts. But all of the canceled projects had been identified as wasteful in a
report written by respected nonpartisan auditors. So the president's choice was clearly motivated by sound budgetary
policy, not partisan politics.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the press secretary's argument depends?

A.Canceling highway projects was not the only way for the president to punish legislative districts controlled by
opposition parties.
B.The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts
controlled by the president's party.
C.The number of projects canceled was a significant proportion of all the highway projects that were to be
undertaken by the government in the near future.
D.The highway projects canceled in districts controlled by the president's party were not generally more expensive
than the projects canceled in districts controlled by opposition parties.
E.Reports by nonpartisan auditors are not generally regarded by the opposition parties as a source of objective
assessments of government projects.

答案是B。我能理解B为什么正确，如果报告里认为浪费的项目大多不在president's party的辖区，那么被取消的项目也大多不在president's party的辖区就很正常。
问题在于，我不理解D为什么不正确？论坛里没看到有人在讨论D。
D说president's party辖区里被取消的项目总体不比opposition parties辖区内被取消的项目贵。比如，如果president's party辖区里被取消的项目都是20万，opposition parties辖区内被取消的项目都是25万，那么就意味着可能在opposition parties辖区内有些20万-25万之间的项目并没有被取消，那这不是正好说明总统的决定不是因为政治偏见而是基于预算考量么？ 再换一个方法，来对D取非，如果president's party辖区里被取消的项目总体比opposition parties辖区内被取消的项目贵，即president's party辖区里被取消的项目都是20万，opposition parties辖区内被取消的项目都是15万，那么就意味着可能在president's party辖区内有些15万-20万之间的项目并没有被取消，正好说明总统的决定是因为政治偏见。绕了好久没绕明白，曼哈顿的讨论也看了，绕不过来，还求大牛指导，谢谢！

shelagh

没有人么？

Lauraienglish

我也在纠结这道题，想问下楼主怎么找到曼哈顿的讨论的，我在百度上搜都只有中国网站的……google还用不了……

Lauraienglish

哦，我明白d选项了，他说的是generally，就是取消的政府项目的总费用不比另一个政党地区取消的项目总费用贵。无关选项。

shelagh

Lauraienglish 发表于 2015-3-14 22:16
我也在纠结这道题，想问下楼主怎么找到曼哈顿的讨论的，我在百度上搜都只有中国网站的……google还用不了… ...

我也有过同样的困扰，后来突然想到完全可以直接打开www.manhattanprep.com然后在论坛里search问题呀……不一定用google…瞬间觉得自己以前弱爆了……

shelagh

Lauraienglish 发表于 2015-3-14 22:29
哦，我明白d选项了，他说的是generally，就是取消的政府项目的总费用不比另一个政党地区取消的项目总费用贵 ...

所以你是说D选项的cost指的是取消项目的费用，而不是项目本身的费用，对吗？

Lauraienglish

shelagh 发表于 2015-3-15 09:49
所以你是说D选项的cost指的是取消项目的费用，而不是项目本身的费用，对吗？ ...

同意！               

ksks

b选项题目中说过来了啊

yingnuo

谢谢解释