请教：lsat24/s4/q26

mzyzhu

26. Smoking in bed has long been the main cause of home fires. Despite a significant decline in cigarette smoking in the last two decades, however, there has been no comparable decline in the number of people killed in home fires.

Each one of the following statements, if true over the last two decades, helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy above EXCEPT:

(A) Compared to other types of home fires, home fires caused by smoking in bed usually cause relatively little damage before they are extinguished.

(B) Home fires caused by smoking in bed often break out after the home's occupants have fallen asleep.

(C) Smokers who smoke in bed tend to be heavy smokers who are less likely to quit smoking than are smokers who do not smoke in bed.

(D) An increasing number of people have been killed in home fires that started in the kitchen.

(E) Population densities have increased, with the result that one home fire can cause more deaths than in previous decades.


key B. 我选A。
　

cranberry

A的意思是说，由于吸烟引发的火灾造成的损失小，而烧死属于严重损失，所以吸烟的人减少不会影响它的数量。

B的意思是说在床上吸烟的危险性，在人们睡着后着火，所以如果吸烟的人大幅减少的话，一定会造成被烧死的人减少，和题目的事实是违背的。