GWD2 Q32

edmundshi

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.

哪位大虾帮忙讲讲，能翻译下吗？题目看的都糊涂了～