13. If retail stores experience a decrease in revenues during this holiday season, then either attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving have changed or prices have risen beyond the level most people can afford. If attitudes have changed, then we all have something to celebrate this season. If prices have risen beyond the level most people can afford, then it must be that salaries have not kept pace with rising prices during the past year. Assume the premises above to be true. If salaries have kept pace with rising prices during the past year, which one of the following must be true? (A) Attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving have changed. (B) Retail stores will not experience a decrease in retail sales during this holiday season. (C) Prices in retail stores have not risen beyond the level that most people can afford during this holiday season. (D) Attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving have not changed, and stores will not experience a decrease in revenues during this holiday season. (E) Either attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving have changed or prices have risen beyond the level that most people can afford during this holiday season.
为什么B 不对呢, 用逆反命题做, 再前推一步,就可以得到B呀? 工资与价格同步,- 价格在承受范围之内--- retail stores will not experience a decrease
结果:retail stores experience a decrease in revenues during this holiday season 原因1:attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving have changed; 原因2:prices have risen beyond the level most people can afford;而原因2产生于: 原因21:salaries have not kept pace with rising prices during the past year.