GWD 17-Q9

theone2007

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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lina2008

我支持选E, 选项B似乎在转述题干90 percent of the projects canceled were in such districts. 

太阳狮子

选B

题目中说要cancel的90%的项目在opposition parties的districts, 而secretary’s argument 说这些要cancel的项目都是从nonpartisan auditors写的report中来的.但是文中没有提到,这份nonpartisan auditors的report中,opposition parties和President’s party各自需要cancel项目的比例. 换言之,如果这份report里面大部分要cancel的项目都是President’s party的,而President只选了opposition parties需要cancel的那些项目,则President就是在徇私舞弊~

玄之又玄

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