TT-4-7

vivianwsp198

Q7:

Although the discount stores in Goreville’s central shopping district are expected to close within five years as a result of competition from a SpendLess discount department store that just opened, those locations will not stay vacant for long.  In the five years since the opening of Colson’s, a nondiscount department store, a new store has opened at the location of every store in the shopping district that closed because it could not compete with Colson’s.

 

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

 

1. Many customers of Colson’s are expected to do less shopping there than they did before the SpendLess store opened.
2. Increasingly, the stores that have opened in the central shopping district since Colson’s opened have been discount stores.
3. At present, the central shopping district has as many stores operating in it as it ever had.
4. Over the course of the next five years, it is expected that Goreville’s population will grow at a faster rate than it has for the past several decades.
5. Many stores in the central shopping district sell types of merchandise that are not available at either SpendLess or Colson’s.

   Answer: a B

看不懂B的意思

vivianwsp198

Q14:

Which of the flowing most logically completes the argument?

 

The attribution of the choral work Lacrimae to the composer Pescard (1400 – 1474) has been regarded as tentative, since it was based on a single treatise from the early 1500’s that named Pescard as the composer.  Recently, several musical treatises from the late 1500’s have come to light, all of which name Pescard as the composer of Lacrimae.  Unfortunately, these newly discovered treatises lend no support to the attribution of Lacrimae to Pescard, since _______.

 

1. the treatise from the early 1500’s misidentifies the composers of some of the musical works it considers
2. the author of the treatise from the early 1500’s had no very strong evidence on which to base the identification of Pescard as the composer of Lacrimae
3. there are works that can conclusively be attributed to Pescard that are not even mentioned in the treatise from the early 1500’s
4. the later treatises probably had no source for their attribution other than the earlier treatise
5. no known treatises from the 1600’s identify Pescard as the composer of Lacrimae

   Answer: b  D

D的意思为何选它

Leo冥

vivianwsp198 发表于 2006-9-20 11:46
Q7:Although the discount stores in Goreville’s central shopping district are expected to close with ...

这道题的关键在于看懂它的结论是怎么来的：
argument：由于和Spendless的竞争压力而倒闭的discount（关键！）stores的空位会被填满
类比情况：Colson's开业五年后，每一家无法与C竞争而倒闭的商店的空位上都会有一家新商店建立

我们要想的是C的情况真的可以适用于S么？从答案B的描述可以看出其实是不行的

B：在C开业之后才建立的新商店中discount store越来越多。

为什么B说明C的情况不适用于S（即weakens），因为S周边的倒闭的商店都是discount类型的啊，他们没有办法和S这个超强的DISCOUNT商店竞争，因此C这种老店倒了后建新的discount店的情况在S存在的情况下肯定不靠谱了，这样哪些vacant也不一定会被填上了