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joywzy

137. A study of marital relationships in which one partner's sleeping and waking cycles differ
from those of the other partner reveals that such couples share fewer activities with each other
and have more violent arguments than do couples in a relationship in which both partners
follow the same sleeping and waking patterns. Thus, mismatched sleeping and waking cycles
can seriously jeopardize a marriage.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?
(A) Married couples in which both spouses follow the same sleeping and waking patterns
also occasionally have arguments than can jeopardize the couple's marriage.
(B) The sleeping and waking cycles of individuals tend to vary from season to season.
(C) The individuals who have sleeping and waking cycles that differ significantly from those
of their spouses tend to argue little with colleagues at work.
(D) People in unhappy marriages have been found to express hostility by adopting a
different sleeping and waking cycle from that of their spouses.
(E) According to a recent study, most people's sleeping and waking cycles can be
controlled and modified easil

答案：D，同意，A中我认为错在occasionally,是部分否定，如果把这个词去掉，是不是削弱？谢谢。

深海的小美人鱼

我认为这里削弱的应该是mismatched sleeping and waking cycles
can seriously jeopardize a marriage.

A Married couples in which both spouses follow the same sleeping and waking patterns
also occasionally have arguments than can jeopardize the couple's marriage.
这里occasionally不是否定的意思而是说偶然.所以去除和不去除我觉得关系不大.A并没有针对结论削弱.

jandj_shanghai

去掉occationally只是说明了patterns相同的couple也jeopardize marriage。不能weaken "mismatched patterns jeopardize marriage"
如果原文说mismatched patterns jeopardize marriage more than same patterns，那是weaken。

joywzy

谢谢深海的小美人鱼和jandj_shanghai，明白了。

swlfx

谢谢深海的小美人鱼和jandj_shanghai

cora_jin

我的理解是：

结论说,

mismatched sleeping and waking cycles can seriously jeopardize a marriage.

选项A中，

Married couples in which both spouses follow the same sleeping and waking patterns
also occasionally have arguments than can jeopardize the couple's marriage.

所以并没有冲突，而且顺着文章的推理过程，不同pattern 的more violent.相同的less　violent

whoody

以下是引用cora_jin在2005-9-27 8:55:00的发言：

我的理解是：

结论说,

mismatched sleeping and waking cycles can seriously jeopardize a marriage.

选项A中，

Married couples in which both spouses follow the same sleeping and waking patterns
also occasionally have arguments than can jeopardize the couple's marriage.

所以并没有冲突，而且顺着文章的推理过程，不同pattern 的more violent.相同的less　violent

同意

huixia06

同意。这种题，他因削弱没有用，因为并非完全的充要条件。

就如同“银行破产率partly归因于政府保证制度”那题一样，提供“银行破产是基于资产和负债”的他因，不能削弱原文的推理关系。

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