GWD一道假设题，请高手指教，多谢了！

lijia1301981

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.

答案是B,麻烦高手解释一下原因吧，非常感谢！

iamwuyan

找一下以前的帖子吧, 有讨论这题的, 满绕人的. 注意B的MOSTLY, 如果取非的话, 就是垃圾项目(注意, 是垃圾项目, 不是被CANCEL的项目, 我就是看花了当时)绝大部分都是PRESIDENT'S PARTY地盘上的, 那不就是说PRESIDENT偏袒自己那方么(把反对党的都CANCEL了, 自己的垃圾项目都留着).

lijia1301981

还是不明白啊，mostly为什么就是“垃圾项目”的意思呢，实在找不到这道题的讨论啊，还请大家帮忙指点一下啊！多谢了！