比较三道resolve the paradox的题目，看上去很相似

cathycathyhan

1. Provinces and states with stringent car safety requirements, including required use of seat belts and annual safety inspections, have on average higher rates of accidents per kilometer driven than do provinces and states with less stringent requirements. Nevertheless, most highway safety experts agree that more stringent requirements do reduce accident rates.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to reconcile the safety experts’ belief with the apparently contrary evidence described above?
(A) Annual safety inspections ensure that car tires are replaced before they grow old.
(B) Drivers often become overconfident after their cars have passed a thorough safety inspection.
(C) The roads in provinces and states with stringent car safety programs are far more congested and therefore dangerous than in other provinces and states.
(D) Psychological studies show that drivers who regularly wear seat belts often come to think of themselves as serious drivers, which for a few people discourages reckless driving.
(E) Provinces and states with stringent car safety requirements have, on average, many more kilometers of roads then do other provinces and states.

2. Police statistics have shown that automobile antitheft devices reduce the risk of car theft, but a statistical study of automobile theft by the automobile insurance industry claims that cars equipped with antitheft devices are, paradoxically, more likely to be stolen than cars that are not so equipped.
Which one of the following, if true, does the most to resolve the apparent paradox?
(A) Owners of stolen cars almost invariably report the theft immediately to the police but tend to delay notifying their insurance company, in the hope that the vehicle will be recovered.
(B) Most cars that are stolen are not equipped with antitheft devices, and most cars that are equipped with antitheft devices are not stolen.
(C) The most common automobile antitheft devices are audible alarms, which typically produce ten false alarms for every actual attempted theft.
(D) Automobile owners who have particularly theft-prone cars and live in areas of greatest incidence of car theft are those who are most likely to have antitheft devices installed.
(E) Most automobile thefts are the work of professional thieves against whose efforts antitheft devices offer scant protection

3. Statistical studies show that last year there was the greatest drop in the voilent crime rate over the course of a year since such statistics were first gathered. But they also reveal that at the same time public anxiety about violent crime substantially increased.
Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy described above?
(A) Longer prison sentences were the primary cause of the decrease in the violent crime rate over the course of the last year.
(B) As in the past, last year's increase in public anxiety about violent crime has been consistently underreported in the news media.
(C) Most people can realistically assess the likelihood that they will become victims of violent crime.
(D) People who feel the most anxiety about violent crime usually live in areas with relatively high violent crime rates.
(E) The proportion of violent crimes covered in the news media nearly doubled over the course of last year.
是不是看上去很相似呢？

sdcar2010

C

D

The 3rd question needs some assumptions to choose E) as the correct answer. Watching or reading news on violent crime would increase viewer's anxiety. These people responded to the anxiety poll.

擎天中华民兵

第一题不应该是C吧，more congested is irrelated to the danger. 司机过于自信才有可能出车祸。

sdcar2010

(C) The roads in provinces and states with stringent car safety programs are far more congested and therefore dangerous than in other provinces and states.

cathycathyhan

第一、二道题目其实本质是一致的，所以答案很很雷同。不过第三套题目看上去相似，其实还是有些不同的， 它问你But they also reveal that at the same time public anxiety about violent crime substantially increased的原因，和前面第一道、第二道题目都是因为环境因素而导致犯罪上升，一看D可能是正确答案，但是仔细看，D说他们这些人住在犯罪率较高的地方，并不代表他们对于犯罪焦虑情绪增加，而E里面动词说doubled over the course of last year，就是增加了，double可以反映increase的含义，所以选项E是正确的。从这三道题目看出LSAT题目的难度，就算过去做到过相似的题目，但是答案也有不同之处。