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hlbjerry

Which of the following, if true, most logically completes the passage? A recent poll found that over 80 percent of the residents of Nalmed Province favored a massive expansion of the commuter rail system as a means of significantly easing congestion on the province’s highways and were willing to help pay for the expansion through an increase in their taxes. Nevertheless, the poll results indicate that expansion of the rail system, if successfully completed, would be unlikely to achieve its goal of easing congestion, because _______. A. most people in favor of expanding the rail system reported less congestion during their highway commute as the primary benefit they would experience B. of the less than 20 percent of residents not counted as favoring the expansion, about half claimed to have no opinion one way or the other C. the twice-daily periods of peak congestion caused by people commuting in cars have grown from about an hour each to almost two and a half hours each in the past 20 years D. expanding the commuter rail system will require the construction of dozens of miles of new railbed E. the proposed expansion to the commuter rail system will make it possible for some people who both live and work at suburban locations to commute by rail 又是一道让我困惑的题目，参考答案是A, 但A 难道是为了说明调查没有代表性马？但是题目文的也是基于这个调查的阿？还是说原来那帮人就表达过这个愿望（reported?过去式?)，但是愿望没有实现。 不懂

platobungee

以下是引用hlbjerry在2007-8-26 8:16:00的发言：
Which of the following, if true, most logically completes the passage? A recent poll found that over 80 percent of the residents of Nalmed Province favored a massive expansion of the commuter rail system as a means of significantly easing congestion on the province’s highways and were willing to help pay for the expansion through an increase in their taxes. Nevertheless, the poll results indicate that expansion of the rail system, if successfully completed, would be unlikely to achieve its goal of easing congestion, because _______. A. most people in favor of expanding the rail system reported less congestion during their highway commute as the primary benefit they would experience B. of the less than 20 percent of residents not counted as favoring the expansion, about half claimed to have no opinion one way or the other C. the twice-daily periods of peak congestion caused by people commuting in cars have grown from about an hour each to almost two and a half hours each in the past 20 years D. expanding the commuter rail system will require the construction of dozens of miles of new railbed E. the proposed expansion to the commuter rail system will make it possible for some people who both live and work at suburban locations to commute by rail 又是一道让我困惑的题目，参考答案是A, 但A 难道是为了说明调查没有代表性马？但是题目文的也是基于这个调查的阿？还是说原来那帮人就表达过这个愿望（reported?过去式?)，但是愿望没有实现。 不懂

这题如果用排除法做的话，不难选出答案，我来说说A选项

A是说大多数favor of expanding the rail system的人自己走高速的时候并没有congestion的困扰，所以等那个rail system建成之后他们也不能experience(享受到）rail system所带来的primary benefit(也就是easing congestion),因为他们原本就没有感觉拥挤。而这一类人占了residence的80%，所以会导致goal of easing congestion可能不会实现

hlbjerry

明白了，那帮人根本就不会去坐铁路，他们还是会开车的，他们是想享受铁路带来的“优惠“。这么多人等着优惠，拥挤就不会解决。多谢

silence05

支持的人既然希望easing congestion 但是他们没有认为拥挤
好奇怪的逻辑

精灵宝宝

那帮人根本就不会去坐铁路，他们还是会开车的，他们是想享受铁路带来的公路上的“优惠

laughingwind

原本建设铁路的目的是希望开车的人去坐火车，从而减少拥堵。但A说，80%的人并不觉得拥堵，因此即使铁路建好了，他们依然会继续开车，所以建铁路分流的目的没有达到。

清酉湘竹2018

我也做错了，prep12的题。再读了一遍答案选项A才明白：
这帮支持修铁路的人"reported less congestion during their highway commute as the primary benefit they would experience ", 意思是铁路修好了其他人去做火车了我开车就不拥挤了，所以他们还是会继续开车啊。。。

典座

第一次做这题排除到最后就剩AE，但是记得之前说选项填补逻辑漏洞，所以一定能一眼看过去就能解释明白，不用二次联想。本来这样看，还是E更直接一点...........
后来仔细读了一下题，注意这句significantly reducing congestion on the province’s highways ，更多的郊区人口进入城市，但是他们都是乘火车进入，不会影响到highways，而文中强调的是80%的人认为扩大铁路系统会减少高速公路的交通堵塞。