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bearwinnie

Although the discount stores in Goreville's central shopping district are expected to close within five years as a result of competition from a SpendLess discount department store that just opened, those locations will not stay vacant for long. In the five years since the opening of Colson's, a nondiscount department store, a new store has opened at the location of every store in the shopping district that closed because it could not compete with Colson's.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
a. Many customers of Colson's are expected to do less shopping there than they did before the SpendLess store opened.

b. Increasingly, the stores that have opened in the central shopping district since Colson's opened have been discount stores.

c. At present, the central shopping district has as many stores operating in it as it ever had.

d. Over the course of the next five years, it is expected that Goreville's population will grow at a faster rate than it has for the past several decades.

e. Many stores in the central shopping district sell types of merchandise that are not available at either SpendLess or Colson's.
请哪位大侠详细解释一下提干中最后一句话什么意思,看不大懂,that closed是指什么close?谢谢啦,这题看了我大半天,还是一个头两个大.

bearwinnie

大家帮帮我,解答一下吧,谢谢啦

superbblife

来看看，答案是B么？

最后一句话我的理解是，that closed作为定语从句修饰every store

翻过来意思是：自从非打折百货店Colson's开张以后5年，一个新店在每个关门的店的位置开张了，原因是它没法和Colson's竞争。

In the five years since the opening of Colson's, a nondiscount department store, a new store has opened at the location of every store in the shopping district that closed because it could not compete with Colson's.

再结合原题第一句话Although the discount stores in Goreville's central shopping district are expected to close within five years as a result of competition from a SpendLess
        discount department store that just opened, those locations will not stay vacant for long.

打折店关门是因为更便宜打折店的开张，不是非打折店，所以B选项weaken结论

b. Increasingly, the stores that have opened in the central shopping district since Colson's opened have been discount stores.

[此贴子已经被作者于2009/8/9 13:01:06编辑过]

bearwinnie

好像有些明白了,这题中就是这个store那个store,搞得太混乱.

开始,我还没搞清楚,究竟哪一句是conclusion.

谢谢superbblife MM