新prep77 原来讨论中没有解决的问题

luyao531

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Which of the following most logically completes the argument below?

Twenty percent of the stores in Morganville's downtown shopping district will fail within five years because they will be competing directly with the SaveMart discount department store newly opened in East Morganville.  The downtown shopping district has lost business at this rate before and has always completely rebounded.  Confidence that it will rebound again from the losses it is now about to suffer is ill founded, however, because __________.

A. the stores likely to be put out of business by direct competition from SaveMart are the downtown shopping district's anchor stores, on whose ability to draw shoppers many of the other downtown stores depend

B. the bus line that has long connected the downtown area of Morganville with East Morganville has a tradition of carrying shoppers who reside in East Morganville into downtown Morganville to shop

C. when the downtown shopping district has rebounded before, the business premises of a failed business were typically taken over by a business of the same kind as had been there before

D. SaveMart's business plan for the East Morganville store is based on earning low profits, if any, during the first five years of the store's existence

E. it is conceivable that the downtown shopping district could shrink substantially without collapsing altogether

题干中给出了Morganville's downtown shopping district 和SaveMart discount department store newly opened in East Morganville两个方位，因此我觉得，B选项中指出了两地之间的交通会使原来去downtown的east shoppers现在留在east Morganville购物，从而使downtown客流的流失不可避免。

我觉得A的问题在于，我们并不知道以前downtown Morganville的商业衰落而又复兴是不是也是因为类似于SaveMart这样的商店新开，如果是，那么，这次downtown Morganville仍然可以复兴。

答案给的是A,我认为是B.

请指点，谢谢~

qbfnigel

答案是A。绝对没问题的。PREP的答案是绝对没问题的，不需要怀疑。

原文其实用了了个类比。答案只要打断类比，给出一种特殊情况就OK了。A 选说the downtown shopping district's anchor stores。就是特殊情况了。B选的话，典型的无关选项，用个BUS运点人，根本代表不了什么

luyao531

嗯，谢谢

smallmole

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