求教OG 2020 622

FrancesF

Editorial: Our city's public transportation agency is facing a budget shortfall. The fastest growing part of the budget has been employee retirement benefits, which are exceptionally generous. Unless the budget shortfall is resolved, transportation service will be cut, and many transportation employees will lose their jobs. Thus, it would be in the employees’ best interest for their union to accept cuts in retirement benefits.   
Which of the following is an assumption the editorial's argument requires?

A. The transportation employees’ union should not accept cuts in retirement benefits if doing so would not be in the employees’ best interest.
B. The only feasible way for the agency to resolve the budget shortfall would involve cutting transportation service and eliminating jobs.
C. Other things being equal, it is in the transportation employees’ interest to have exceptionally generous retirement benefits.
D. Cutting the retirement benefits would help resolve the agency's budget shortfall.
E. The transportation employees’ union will not accept cuts in retirement benefits if doing so will not allow more transportation employees to keep their jobs.

求助B为什么不对，我的思路是取非：cutting transportation service and elimating jobs 不是唯一可行的方法，言下之意，有其他可行的来resolve budget shortfall， 那从employee的最大利益出发，就不一定要接受这个cuts。。。请指教~

青槐

楼主可能理解题目出了一点偏差，这里题目是说削减退休金能不能解决问题，重点不在是否这是最好的方法，B选项即使取非，也不能说明削减退休金能不能达到目的，D取非直接否定了

FrancesF

青槐 发表于 2019-10-7 21:23
楼主可能理解题目出了一点偏差，这里题目是说削减退休金能不能解决问题，重点不在是否这是最好的方法，B选 ...

啊啊啊我好像理解了！谢谢！

ioiomx

青槐 发表于 2019-10-7 21:23
楼主可能理解题目出了一点偏差，这里题目是说削减退休金能不能解决问题，重点不在是否这是最好的方法，B选 ...

但是文段里说了it would be in the employee's best interest to accept这个提案，如果有其他不需要这么做，还能解决shortfall的方法，那这个就不是最为有利的一个啊...

btw，我了解D为什么对，但是还是对B存疑，希望有明白的朋友解释一下哈~~

MikaT

B说的是only feasible way，原题干并不关心feasible与否，无关选项