Q40: GWD-4-20求助

liwebber

72. Community activist: If Morganville wants to keep its central shopping district healthy, it should prevent the
opening of a huge SaveAll discount department store on the outskirts of Morganville. Records from other small
towns show that whenever SaveAll has opened a store outside the central shopping district of a small town,
within fi ve years the town has experienced the bankruptcies of more than a quarter of the stores in the shopping
district.
The answer to which of the following would be most useful for evaluating the community activist’s reasoning?
(A) Have community activists in other towns successfully campaigned against the opening of a SaveAll store
on the outskirts of their towns?
(B) Do a large percentage of the residents of Morganville currently do almost all of their shopping at stores in
Morganville?
(C) In towns with healthy central shopping districts, what proportion of the stores in those districts suffer
bankruptcy during a typical fi ve-year period?
(D) What proportion of the employees at the SaveAll store on the outskirts of Morganville will be drawn from
Morganville?
(E) Do newly opened SaveAll stores ever lose money during their fi rst fi ve years of operation?
这道题选C，我本来是想选C的，可是觉得C是有点原文重复啊，重复了within five years the town has experienced the bankruptcies of more than a quarter of the stores in the shopping district.

这句话，为什么C对呢？

chasingM7

conclusion: to sustain the healthy shopping district, M should ban the opening of saveall discount store.

Premise: 25% bankruptcy for small towns where saveall dist store opened.

evaluation?

you want to choose a statement that either strengthens or weakens the argument.
if the 25% bankruptcy is natural, then M will probably see 25% of its stores closed anyway. in other words, the 25% rate is natural and business norm. HOWEVER, if the rate is much lower than 25%, then it strengthens the argument that the opning of saveall hurts the economy of M.

hope it helps.

liwebber

明白了，谢谢谢谢