gwd17-Q9: 答案咋个就是B那？帮看看吧。

rainsun

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?

A.      Canceling highway projects was not the only way for the President to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.

B.      The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts controlled by the President’s party.

C.      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.

D.      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.

E.       Reports by nonpartisan auditors are not generally regarded by the opposition parties as a source of objective assessments of government projects.

pensi_112

我也不可以理解，觉得应该选E~~请NN指点

rainsun

而且觉得B不就重复了一下原题中的那句话么？ 意思是 大部分cancel的projects在的区都在反对党控制下。

这说了不说有啥用么？不解不解啊。。。。。。。。。。

won872

The cancellation is unbiased based on the audit report of the independent (nonpartisan) auditor. From the report, these projects are identified as wasteful.

 

The passage say about two things:

1)      90% of canceled projects are concentrated in such districts, claimed by president’s political opponents

2)      critics claim that the President’s recent highway project cancellations demonstrate a vindictive desire to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties

 

What is missing between these two points is that such districts from statement 1) are the same districts as legislative districts mentioned in statement 2) controlled by opposition party.

 

“The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts controlled by the President’s party”

This assumption connect statement 1) and 2) and offer the reason why opposition part critic about the president’s cancellation of high way project and cited the “90% of project…in such district” as evidence in purporting their critic.

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lishihui2009

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pwss

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OTSUKAAINAI

原文围绕 取消政策 是不是反对党

根据这个比选项B和E相对最沾边，

然后比一下

B说被取消的都是总统党派的题案

E说那个报告没有被反对党使用。

这么一比明显是B好啊，题案是总统党的，还是反对党的是这个讨论的前提，如果题案是反对党的那么肯定就不是因为反对党的原因了。

Simonyo

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necroosu

这个题属于典型的denial-test题，把每个项目的意思反过来测试。如果把B反过来，即President把自己选区的项目都费了，那还有啥可criticize的啊，president多altruism啊，发言人也不用费嘴皮子defend了。所以这必是underlying assumption.