OG 10th 120

shevit

Questions 119 – 120 are based on the following.

According to the Tristate Transportation Authority, making certain improvements to the main commuter rail linewould increase ridership dramatically. The authority plans to finance these improvements over the course of five years by raising automobile tolls on the two high-way bridges along the route the rail line serves. Although the proposed improvements are indeed needed, the authority’s plan for securing the necessary funds should be rejected because it would unfairly force drivers to absorb the entire cost of something from which they receive no

benefit.

120. Which of the following, if true, would provide the authority with the strongest counter to the objection that its plan is unfair?

(A) Even with the proposed toll increase, the average bridge toll in the tristate region would remain less than the tolls charged in neighboring states.

(B) Any attempt to finance the improvements by raising rail fares would result in a decrease in ridership and so would be self-defeating.

(C) Automobile commuters benefit from well-maintained bridges, and in the tristate region bridge maintenance is funded out of general income tax revenues to which both automobile and rail commuters contribute.

(D) The roads along the route served by the rail line are highly congested and drivers benefit when commuters are diverted from congested roadways to mass transit.

(E) The only alternative way of funding the proposed improvements now being considered is through a regional income tax surcharge, which would affect automobile commuters and rail commuters alike.

是变体哦~~答案D，为什么B不可以。。。。。

shevit

UP

colasama

同学，题干?

shevit

汗。。。

colasama

注意题目的问题，是要找能够counter下面这句话的选项。
it would unfairly force drivers to absorb the entire cost of something from which they receive no benefit.

shevit

哦哦~~~这样。。。谢谢~~

sdcar2010

The question asks for an answer choice which would provide the authority with ammunition to refute the claim that the proposed plan is unfair to automobile drivers.

B) cannot help support the proposed plan. In fact, B) says that the plan is self-defeating.

chasebetter

plan is unfair的论点drivers receive no benefit but absorb entire cost,所以weaken这个论点就是D，drivers benefit when.....B与原题论点无关