GWD-18-Q22求解！

kudoucliff

In each of the past five years, Barraland’s prison population has increased.Yet, according to official government statistics, for none of those years has there been either an increase in the number of criminal cases brought to trial, or an increase in the rate at which convictions have been obtained.Clearly, therefore, the percentage of people convicted of crimes who are being given prison sentences is on the increase.


Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

1. In Barraland the range of punishments that can be imposed instead of a prison sentence is wide.
   
2. Over the last ten years, overcrowding in the prisons of Barraland has essentially been eliminated as a result of an ambitious program of prison construction.
   
3. Ten years ago, Barraland reformed its criminal justice system, imposing longer minimum sentences for those crimes for which a prison sentence had long been mandatory.
   
4. Barraland has been supervising convicts on parole more closely in recent years, with the result that parole violations have become significantly less frequent.
   E. The number of people in Barraland who feel that crime is on the increase is significantly greater now than it was five years ago.
   答案是C，为什么呢，我选了A
   

wangsiwei

这个题的中心意思是－－因为percentage of people convicted of crimes 高了，所以在监狱里的人增加了。要weaken，就要找出别的导致人增加的理由。
A－－有别的惩罚的方法，不用坐牢，与主题无关。再说如果有别的方法，那么就不会造成现在监狱里犯人增加这个事实了。
C－－每个犯人待的时间长了，本来要放出去的时候没有放出去，自然而然人数增加了。而不是因为犯罪率高了。
不知道我说的清不清楚。

kudoucliff

感谢楼上！非常清楚……我就是读不懂C是什么意思……哎~

grace1210

C的意思就是说，B城市改革了criminal Justice 系统， 实施了更长的最短刑期对于原来那些mandatory的sentence。即sentence的range没有变，但是最短sentence期限增长了