请教大牛, 这题到底在说什么, 没读懂....

tinywhite

Although the discount stores in Goreville’s central shopping district are expected to close within five years as a result of competition from a SpendLess discount department store that just opened, those locations will not stay vacant for long.  In the five years since the opening of Colson’s, a nondiscount department store, a new store has opened at the location of every store in the shopping district that closed because it could not compete with Colson’s.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

A.      Many customers of Colson’s are expected to do less shopping there than they did before the SpendLess store opened.

B.       Increasingly, the stores that have opened in the central shopping district since Colson’s opened have been discount stores.

C.      At present, the central shopping district has as many stores operating in it as it ever had.

D.      Over the course of the next five years, it is expected that Goreville’s population will grow at a faster rate than it has for the past several decades.

E.       Many stores in the central shopping district sell types of merchandise that are not available at either SpendLess or

Colson’s.

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[此贴子已经被作者于2008-8-8 11:41:32编辑过]

yi11

文章第一句是结论：虽然G商业区的折扣店在S折扣店开以后五年后因为竞争不过S都预计会关门，这些关了的店铺位置都不会空很长时间（意思就是还有新店要开）。
结论的依据：在C非折扣店开了五年以后，每个竞争不过C的店的位置上都开了新店。文章想利用C的例子来作为先例说明S开以后的效果。

问削弱。就是那一项成立能说S开了以后倒闭的店铺的位置上不会开新店（注意不是倒闭的店重新开门，new store opened at the location）

(B)说C关门以后越来越多开的店都是折扣店，说明能开起来的只能是折扣店，那么S这个折扣店开了以后又把这些折扣店挤垮，再开新店就难了。

(A)说S开门以后C的顾客怎么样，排除，因为结论是说被S挤垮的店，C的顾客无关。
(C)现在商业区的商店怎么怎么样，看到这儿就排除了，因为文章scope是discount store, non discount store，没有说全部store。
(D)后5年G的人口增长率会比前5年快，无关。或者硬扯上关系说人口增加购物的人就多，那也是支持结论说明新店还是能开起来，排除。
(E)Many stores ...，和C一样，排除。

tinywhite

哦...豁然开朗

谢谢啊

HAHA1101

逻辑入门好难哦．．．．．．