lsat test11/s1/q15

mzyzhu

Q19, 19. Fares on the city-run public buses in Greenville are subsidized by city tax revenues, but among the beneficiaries of the low fares are many people who commute from outside the city to jobs in Greenville. Some city councilors argue that city taxes should be used primarily to benefit the people who pay them, and therefore that bus fares should be raised enough to cover the cost of the service.

Each of the following, if true, would weaken the argument advanced by the city councilors EXCEPT:

(D) Voters in the city, many of whom benefit from the low transit fares are strongly opposed to increasing local taxes.

(E) People who work in Greenville and earn wages above the nationally mandated minimum all pay the city wage tax of 5 percent.

The answer is D, but I think it should be E.

mindfree

D是典型的不相关选项. 重点是原文的逻辑关系, 你要在原文的逻辑关系内找答案.

D错在并没有weaken原文的逻辑关系:tax money should benefit people who pay taxes-->tax money should not be used for people living outside the city. weaken argument是指削弱了论述. 既能指出论述和逻辑上的错误. D和此逻辑没有关系.

E是weaken因为它指出了原文逻辑的一个漏洞:people living outside also pay taxes. 实际上否定了原文的一个别assumption:people living outside the city do not pay taxes. 所以对.