还有一道assumption题。。。。。

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Newspaper editorial:



In an attempt to reducethe crime rate, the governor is getting tough on criminals and making prisonconditions harsher.  art of this efforthas been to deny inmates the access they formerly had to college-levelcourses.  However, this action is clearlycounter to the governor’s ultimate goal, since after being released formprison, inmates who had taken such courses committed far fewer crimes overallthan other inmates.

Which of the following isan assumption on which the argument depends?

A.Not being able to takecollege-level courses while in prison is unlikely to deter anyone from a crimethat he or she might otherwise have committed.

B.Former inmates are nomore likely to commit crimes than are members of the general population.

C.The group of inmateswho chose to take college-level courses were not already less likely than otherinmates to commit crimes after being released.

D.Taking high schoollevel courses in prison has less effect on an inmate’s subsequent behavior thantaking college-level courses does.

E.The governor’s ultimategoal actually is to gain popularity by convincing people that somethingeffective is being done about crime.

答案选C 我理解的文章大体意思：不让囚犯上课 违反了政府的初衷：减少犯罪率  就是不会减少犯罪率

而C我取非：上课的囚犯被释放了后比其他的囚犯更不易犯罪 支持结论 没有weaken啊

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irisdelis

题目意思: 为减少犯罪率,政府决定对罪犯更苛刻并且恶化监狱条件.其中一项就是剥夺罪犯以前享有的读大学课程的权利. 结论: 这种措施会违反政府的初衷,因为那些在狱中上过大学课程的人被释放后通常犯罪更少.
问: 这一结论基于什么样的assumption

很显然，如果大学课程是使得罪犯被释放后更少犯罪的原因，那么剥夺大学课程之后就会导致犯罪增加，即和政府初衷相违背。换句话说就是那些选择读大学课程的人本身并不会减少犯罪，而学了大学课程之后才会。即答案c