OG12 104 又来这道题了 辛苦大家了关于E选项

mia113

Although the discount stores in Goreville’s central
shopping district are expected to close within fi ve
years as a result of competition from a SpendLess
discount department store that just opened, those
locations will not stay vacant for long. In the fi ve years
since the opening of Colson’s, a nondiscount
department store, a new store has opened at the
location of every store in the shopping district that
closed because it could not compete with Colson’s.

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

(A) Many customers of Colson’s are expected to do
less shopping there than they did before the
SpendLess store opened.
(B) Increasingly, the stores that have opened in the
central shopping district since Colson’s opened
have been discount stores.
(C) At present, the central shopping district has as
many stores operating in it as it ever had.
(D) Over the course of the next fi ve years, it is
expected that Goreville’s population will grow at
a faster rate than it has for the past several
decades.
(E) Many stores in the central shopping district sell
types of merchandise that are not available at
either SpendLess or Colson’s.
OG说：Because this statement does not indicate whether any of these stores that off er goods not sold at
SpendLess or Colson’s will be among those that are closing, it is not possible to determine what
eff ect it has on the strength of the argument.
可是我觉得就算说这些店子就是要被Spendless逼迫得要关门的店，仍然是无关选项， 因为并没有使类比不具可比性·大家觉得呢？

crysta1991

首先用排除D,E选项是支持argument的，我觉得C选项无关，然后A,B选项中，B相当于题干得改写,既然题干已经说 the discount stores in Goreville’s central shopping district are expected to close because the competition from a SpendLess
discount department store,如果按B选项所说还开同样地store,不是跟题干给的信息矛盾了吗？所以选B
个人见解，希望对你有帮助哦。

zgzgzg000

我对原文的理解：SpendLess 一开，Goreville的discount store都关门了，但是这些Locations不会空着，因为a new store又开在了原来关门的location了，B选项说the new store也是discount store,暗示也会倒闭， 所以location还是会空着的~不知对不对

lsrseason

因为不打折店C开业，压倒性优势，只有其他打折店不断开业。倒闭。。打折店S开业，站稳脚跟，打折店G竞争不敌，所以关门。至此C,S分别占据正价和折扣市场，不会再有新店开业

mia113

谢谢大家的解释··我明白这道题是选B
只是在纠结OG对E的解释而已··
自己觉得E中 说的那些店不管是不是 among those that are closing
都是无关···