求教prep1-10

summerlucia

10. Jennifer:  Video rental outlets in Centerville together handled 10,000 fewer video rentals in 1994 than in 1993.  The decline in rentals was probably due almost entirely to the February 1994 opening of Videorama, the first and only video rental outlet in the area that, in addition to renting videos, also sold them cheaply.

 

Brad:  There must be another explanation:  as you yourself said, the decline was on the order of 10,000 rentals.  Yet Videorama sold only 4,000 videos in 1994.

 

Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the force of the objection that Brad presents to Jennifer's explanation?

(A) In 1994 Videorama rented out more videos than it sold.

(B) In 1994 two new outlets that rent but that do not sell videos opened in Centerville.

(C) Most of the video rental outlets in Centerville rent videos at a discount on certain nights of the week.

(D) People often buy videos of movies that they have previously seen in a theater.

(E) People who own videos frequently loan them to their friends.

答案是(E)，完全没有思路啊！看不出这个怎么削弱的。哪位大侠帮帮忙，谢啦！

lu05721025

原文那个人说因为Videoram只卖了4000， 而租赁生意下降了10000，所以V不能完全构成对于下降的解释。但如果按照E说的，那些买了的人还会借给他们的朋友，实际卖4000可能就相当于卖10000，所以削弱

dustyrick

Jennifer's argument is that the selling service in videorama caused the decline in centerville
Brad's objection is that they only sold very few videos which shouldn't cause a thred of threat to centerville's business
To weaken Brad's objection, the essence is to find something that is related to the vedio-sales can strengthen Jen's argument

decline in centerville's rental business doesn't mean there will be a boost in videorama's own rental business.  

E means there will be less people renting in the area and it'll most likely bring downs rental business as a whole.

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-9-3 11:34:36编辑过]

Netherlander

这个题真恶心 尤其是两人的名字 分明是在暗示Jennifer Aniston 和Brad Pitt^

天蝎座1107

以下是引用Netherlander在2008/10/18 20:26:00的发言：
这个题真恶心 尤其是两人的名字 分明是在暗示Jennifer Aniston 和Brad Pitt^

哈哈 MM想象力太丰富 还是两个人意见不合~

scarlett8327

楼上的楼上这个联想能力太high了！