PREP 08 #77 求解 选项E为什么不对

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Which of the following most logically completes the argument below?

Twenty percent of the stores in Morganville's downtown shopping district will fail within five years because they will be competing

directly with the SaveMart discount department store newly opened in East Morganville. The downtown shopping district has lost

business at this rate before and has always completely rebounded. Confidence that it will rebound again from the losses it is

now about to suffer is ill founded, however, because __________.

A. the stores likely to be put out of business by direct competition from SaveMart are the downtown shopping district's anchor

stores, on whose ability to draw shoppers many of the other downtown stores depend

B. the bus line that has long connected the downtown area of Morganville with East Morganville has a tradition of carrying

shoppers who reside in East Morganville into downtown Morganville to shop

C. when the downtown shopping district has rebounded before, the business premises of a failed business were typically taken

over by a business of the same kind as had been there before

D. SaveMart's business plan for the East Morganville store is based on earning low profits, if any, during the first five years of the

store's existence

E. it is conceivable that the downtown shopping district could shrink substantially without collapsing altogether

选项E为什么不对呢

如果确定shopping district will shrink 那么rebound的可能性更会被削减 正是支持结论 it will rebound again from the losses it is

now about to suffer is ill founded 的啊～

求解答

谢谢！

AO is A  那个倒装太痛了。。。

kluivert

shrink substantially without collapsing altogether
这和那个however 的逻辑都不一样啊
without collapsing altogether是个积极信号，不就给rebound  机会了么

cheer115

楼主为什么觉得A痛呢？仅仅是因为倒装句型吗？

题目要削弱的argument的逻辑链如下：

前提：一些店因为商店XX的竞争而倒闭。
前提：之前也有店按照这样的速度倒闭过，（但倒闭的店又被新店顶替上），最终这个商业区还是没有受影响。
结论：这次和之前的倒闭速度一样，所以这个区还是会rebound

削弱的题目，要攻击的是argument的逻辑链。（A完美攻击了逻辑链，说明了这次情况不一样：倒闭的都是区域的扛把子，其它小弟店铺都要仰仗扛把子大哥开张。这次大哥完蛋了，小弟们也要没饭吃了，距离小弟关门也不远了。）

E选项的问题它并没有对上面的逻辑链有什么影响。
E说的“ the downtown shopping district could shrink substantially without collapsing altogether”。
我看来是说是“这个商业区是如何没法rebound”的。
一些店倒闭了》》》商业区的店铺接二连三地倒闭，商业区缩小。