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Press Secretary:  Our critics claim that the President’s recent highway project cancellations demonstrate a vindictive desire to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.  They offer as evidence the fact that 90 percent of the projects canceled were in such districts.  But all of the canceled projects had been identified as wasteful in a report written by respected nonpartisan auditors.  So the President’s choice was clearly motivated by sound budgetary policy, not partisan politics.

 

Which of the following is an assumption on which the press secretary’s argument depends?

 

1. Canceling highway projects was not the only way for the President to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.
2. The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts controlled by the President’s party.
3. The number of projects canceled was a significant proportion of all the highway projects that were to be undertaken by the government in the near future.
4. The highway projects canceled in districts controlled by the President’s party were not generally more expensive than the projects canceled in districts controlled by opposition parties.
5. Reports by nonpartisan auditors are not generally regarded by the opposition parties as a source of objective assessments of government projects.

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答案是B，看不懂，能有NN帮忙分析一下思路吗？

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批评的人说总统取消高速修建计划是在报复反对党，因为90%被取消的计划都在反对党控制区。

新闻发言人驳斥该批评说被取消的那些项目是被无党派审计人士鉴定位浪费的项目。

题目问新闻发言人假定

答案是：那些同样被鉴定为浪费但却按期执行的（没有被取消）项目中的大部分并不在总统的党派控制的地区