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确定这道题不是选e么?
Reasoning
What would undermine the case made for the argument's conclusion? The argument's conclusion is that the high
success rate is evidence that the fund-raisers did not try hard enough to contact new potential donors. The argument
is that since normally such a high donation rate could have been achieved even if only previous donors had been
contacted, the fund-raisers must not have tried hard enough to contact people outside this group. But this reasoning
neglects the possibility that the fund-raisers did contact lots of people who previously hadn't donated. If they had
done that, one would expect the overall donation percentage to be lower than 80 percent. The 80 percent rate they
actually achieved might mean, then, that they were unusually successful in getting donations from previous nondonors.
Therefore, look for an answer option that suggests that that might have happened.
A. This answer option is compatible with the case the argument makes and does not weaken it. Given the
argument's suggestion that the fund-raisers contacted almost nobody other than previous donors, then it is to be
expected that most of the contacted people who to make donations would be previous donors.
B. If the fund-raisers did not raise much money this year, that would be further evidence that they did not try hard
enough--which would strengthen rather than weaken the case the argument makes.
C. This is compatible with the case the argument makes. To the extent that it is some evidence of effort on the part
of S0uthington's fundraisers, at best it weakens the argument only very slightly. This is because we are not given
information that would contextualize this new information and make clearer its significance. For example, have
Southington University's fund-raisers always raised much larger average individual donations than other
universities’ fundraisers? Were there special circumstances this year (e.g., a centenary), resulting in higher
average donations from Southington's typical donors than from most other universities’ donors? Thus the
information in this answer option does not significantly weaken the case the argument makes that Southington's
fund-raisers might not have tried hard enough.
D. This does not weaken the argument. It is a highly general claim about fund-raisers, not specifically about
Southington's fund-raisers. We are not given information about the extent to which this was true of
Southington's fund-raisers this year. Moreover, even if S0uthington's fund-raisers got the names of potential new
donors to contact, this would not indicate that the fund-raisers actually contacted these potential donors.
E. Correct. If most of the donations were from people who hadn't donated before, then the fund-raisers must
have contacted lots of those unlikely prospects and been quite successful in persuading them to donate.
The correct answer is E. |
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