GWD-2-Q32不明白，大家讨论一下吧。

debralee

答案是B，可是还是不太明白。做过这道题的NN请讲解讲解吧。

 

Q32:

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.

XiaoxiaoYY

不是nn，写一下我的思路。

结论：主席撤销项目的决定是由好的预算政策决定，而不是由党派政治决定。

原因：无党派审计师的报告表明这些撤销的项目都是浪费钱的。

如lawyer所说要抓住结论的特殊性和具体性。本题结论的特殊性和具体性：撤销项目的决定是由好的预算政策决定，而不是由党派政治决定. 通过原因看出，sound budgetary policy就是项目不浪费钱。也就是说撤销项目不是看党派政治而是看浪不浪费钱。

A: 错因为主席怎么惩罚反对党无关

B: 有NOT，取非B看结论还是否成立。在报告中大部分被认为浪费钱的项目在主席政党的区域里。如果这些项目浪费钱，而被取消的90%的项目都在反对党区域里，说明撤销项目是由党派政治决定。结论不成立。 B对

C.被取消的项目在总项目中的比率无关

D.被取消项目的贵贱无关

E.反对党认不认同报告无关

cathyzq

这个是 ASSUMPTION中的DEFENDENT题型，基本逻辑齐全，故此看选项中有NOT的，然后

B如果不是总统派发出的，那么这个就是支持该选项，如果是总统发的，那就削弱该选项。

debralee

B说报告中浪费的项目并非大部分是总统党控制的，原为也说“They offer as evidence the fact that 90 percent of the projects canceled were in such（districts controlled by opposition parties） districts”那么是否有理由推测这些项目在反对党控制范围内？不是正消弱了取消项目并非党派斗争的原因的结论了吗？如果在报告中大部分被认为浪费钱的项目在主席政党的区域里。那我到认为是因为经费原因而非党派斗争。

脑子糊涂，不明白啊。NN们指点指点啊。

愁予

lz似乎没有完全理解b的含义。

文章的因果脉络是：

反对党：总统取消的项目90%是我们管辖的---总统是在政治报复。

秘书：被取消的项目（自然是包括上面那90%）全是浪费的---取消这些是经济考虑不是报复。

秘书的论述有个gap：取消浪费的项目就肯定是由于经济因素的考虑吗？

B取非正好利用了这个gap，如果被确认为浪费的项目大部分是总统管辖的，那么他不大义灭亲取消自己管辖的项目而取消反对党的就有公报私仇之嫌。

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-5-19 19:33:43编辑过]

debralee

谢谢！