麻烦大家帮我看下这两道题 是不是我太钻牛角尖了

monica315

1.Despite the fact that the health-inspection procedures for catering establishments are more stringent than those for ordinary restaurants, more of the cases of food poisoning reported to the city health department were brought on by banquets served by catering services than were brought on by restaurant meals.
Which help explain the apparent paradox in the statement above?
答案是People are unlikely to make a connection between a meal they have eaten and a subsequent illness unless the illness strikes a group who are in communication with another.如果只是这句话，这个答案我能理解，可后面给出的解释是“人们一般不太可能把一顿饭与其后的疾病联系起来，因为人们并不能确认是否是这顿饭引起的病，但是若在banquests中的人们很多都在吃过酒席后病了，那么这些相互认识的人就会建立起这种联系并且集体上诉至卫生部门。”我理解的是这句话只是能支持文章的后半部分即证明得病与酒席有关，可是解释不了“检查严格和得病多”这个矛盾丫。。

2.Although compact cars make up only 38 percent of the vehicles in traffic, 48 percent of the cars that are followed too closely are compact. On the other hand,fewer than 27percent of the cars tailgated are middle-sized,even though middle-cars make up 31percent of the vehicles in traffic.
Which of the following most contribution to an explanation for the phenomenon described above.
答案是The shape of compact cars make it easy for a tailgater to see far enough ahead around such cars to minimize the chances of a rear-end collision.
文章中写的不是被追尾么。。“are followed”但是这个答案解释的是小车的结构利于追尾，就是追在其他的车后面。怎么能解释小车被追尾率高？

谢谢谢谢

sdcar2010

What 1 says is that the phenomenon of 得病多 is simply more reporting of food-related disease among customers served by catering services.

For 2, the explanation says the compact car is so small that the cars following compact cars have a better view of what's going on ahead of them.  Therefore more drivers feel safe to follow closely to a compact car than to a middle-sized car.

小车的结构利于追尾，IS NOT 就是 compact cars 追在其他的车后; BUT the compact cars are followed closely by other cars.