one CR question

juliew

It is widely assumed that a museum is helped financially when a generous patron donates a potential exhibit. In truth, however, donated objects require storage space, which is not free, and routine conservation, which is rather expensive. Therefore, such gifts exacerbate rather than lighten the demands made on a museum's financial resources.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weaken the argument above?

According to New Oriental, the answer is "Objects donated by a patron to a museum are often of such importance that the museum would be obliged to add them to its collection through purchase if necessary."

我被搞糊涂了，既然nuseum花钱买，能么还weaken加剧其财政负担的argument? 请指点！

joywzy

in this argument, the assumption is the museum have to exhibit or store all the particles the generousl donaters gave.

Thus,the answer is to weaken the assumption, that is, the particles can be sold rather than be exhibited or stored.

Hope it will help. Good luck.

juliew

You mean the museum that be donated and the one that purchase are two different museums? But it looks like the same museum in th answer.

1stzhang

这是一个他因削弱，原文说的是因为storage而加剧；答案说是要买。实际上就是说是买这些文物导致的加剧。

patrick

能给出其他的几个答案么？
按题目的理解，donated会应为需要额外的Storage and conservation,回对图书馆的财务负面的影响，XDF答案的意思是DONATED的东西是如此的重要，MUSEUM如果没有DONATED，他必须花钱购买，（买了以后当然还是要提供STROAGE的地方），这说明了DONATED的对MUSEUM的财务是有POSITIVE的影响的。
不知道我的理解对不对。
TO Lstzhang,什么是“他因削弱”？

patrick

能给出其他的几个答案么？
按题目的理解，donated会应为需要额外的Storage and conservation,回对图书馆的财务负面的影响，XDF答案的意思是DONATED的东西是如此的重要，MUSEUM如果没有DONATED，他必须花钱购买，（买了以后当然还是要提供STROAGE的地方），这说明了DONATED的对MUSEUM的财务是有POSITIVE的影响的。
不知道我的理解对不对。
TO Lstzhang,什么是“他因削弱”？

joywzy

这不是他因削弱，这是削弱假设啊。

请MINDFREE来定。

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juliew

Thanks!!! I understand now. Sometime GMAT make me feel that I'm silly.

THe other choices are,

1. To keep patron well disposed, a museum will find it advisible to put at least some donated objects on exhibit rather than merely in storage.
2. The people who are most likely to donate valuable objects to a museum are also the people who are most likely to make cash gifts to it.
3. A museum cannot save money by resorting to cheap storage under less than adequate conditions, because so doing will drive up the cost of conservation.
4. Persons expect a museum to keep donated objects in its possession rather than raise cash by selling them.

1stzhang

不管是对原文任何地方的削弱都是对题目的答案，但是的削弱必须对原文的结论产生作用。

cranberry

只要知道是削弱了论证还是削弱了论据就可以解决，我想本文是提出了新的论据，进而削弱了原文的论据的效果。

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