GWD-17-Q9，还是不明白为何不选E？

taixiKim

 

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
                   

answer（B）

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.

elizabeth007

你的想法是典型的架桥／

请问，在你练习或者模拟过程中会过多的去思考他背后的真正原因么？还是只要把桥架好了就闪人了？

won872

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Derek2008

如果E中没有"NOT"将是完美选项。

酒楼

懂了  谢谢

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TheAssembly

其实这跟某类题目一样的思路。比如
在重大交通事故中重伤的人之中，90%没系安全带，10%的人系了，这并能说明系安全带更安全
“安全”在这里的含义是一个比例。若我们要得出系安全带比没系安全带更安全，那就是要求

系安全带且重伤的人/所有系安全带的人（包括重伤和没重伤的）     <       不系安全带系安全带且重伤的人/所有不系安全带的人（包括重伤和没重伤的）

把上面那个90%和10%代进这个式子，得到
所有系安全带的人（包括重伤和没重伤的）/所有不系安全带的人（包括重伤和没重伤的）   >   1/9

evede

楼上的解释太精彩了！

拾海

看了楼上的楼上的解释糊涂了呃...不太理解.....