GWD-17-Q9

carolcai

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.

为什么是B呢？

ivyqxx

我觉得可以这么理解：90%的被report wasteful的project都在该区域，比如说共有10个projects被report wasteful,恰好有9个在那个区域；但是这个区域总共有100个projects,说明president其实并没有cancel其他的91个，说明president并没有vindictive desire to punish,而是基于budgetary policy

hansomecd

先考虑如何weaken结论:

如果根据报告,A(执政党)有50家应该关门的,B(非执政党)也有50家应该关门的,那么关闭的50家90%在非执政党的地盘,就严重说明了是有政治偏向的.

B的意思就是,事实上,的确是因为你家门口的违章建筑多,才拆你家的,实属无奈.

消除了weaken.