请教lsat21/S2/Q17

mzyzhu

T21/s2/Q17. After the Second World War, the charter of the newly formed United Nations established an eleven-member Security Council and charged it with taking collective action in response to threats to world peace. The charter further provided that the five nations that were then the major powers would permanently have sole authority to cast vetoes. The reason given for this arrangement was that the burden of maintaining world peace would rest on the world's major powers and should be required to assume the burden of enforcing a decision it found repugnant.

The reasoning given for the structure of the Security Council assumes that

(A) it does not make sense to provide for democracy among nations when nations themselves are not all democracies

(B) no nation that was not among the major powers at the end of the Second World War would become a major power

(C) nations would not eventually gravitate into large geographical blocs, each containing minor powers as well as at least one major power

(D) minor powers would not ally themselves with major powers to gain the protection of the veto exercised by major powers

(E) decisions reached by a majority of nations in response to threats to world peace would be biased in favor of one or more major powers

the answer is B. but I am completely lost.

albert

the line of reasoning is that because the world's major powers should assume the burden of ....., the charter give 5 nations which  are then the major power sole permanent authorities of veto. From such reasoning , we can surely know that there is an underlying assumption that no more nations will become major powers of the world. That is exactly the meaning of choice B

mzyzhu

it's very revealing, thanks, albert

renprince

en ,是个阅读理解的问题