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leemike0928

Q18:

The growing popularity of computer-based activities was widely expected to result in a

decline in television viewing, since it had been assumed that people lack sufficient free

time to maintain current television-viewing levels while spending increasing amounts of

free time on the computer. That assumption, however, is evidently false: in a recent mail

survey concerning media use, a very large majority of respondents who report increasing

time spent per week using computers report no charge in time spent watching television.

Which of the following would it be most useful to determine in order to evaluate the

argument?

A. Whether a large majority of the survey respondents reported watching television

regularly

B. Whether the amount of time spent watching television is declining among people

who report that they rarely or never use computers

C. Whether the type of television programs a person watches tends to change as the

amount of time spent per week using computers increases

D. Whether a large majority of the computer owners in the survey reported spending

increasing amounts of time per week using computers

E. Whether the survey respondents’ reports of time spent using computers included

time spent using computers at work

JasonJi

I choose E for sure.

aiaidi

not me. I prefer A.

bluevironika

E.用排除法。

Springfield

答案为E,

注意事实和结论中范围的差异, 前面的调查中有free time的限制,而结论中没有, 所以,只有衡量是否占用free time才可以对原文进行加强或者削弱;

agk99

樓上的真是一語敲醒夢中人呀

wanze

啥意思啊，理解不了

Springfield

本题牵涉到数学加减(只考虑趋势,不考虑具体数量);

第一: 原文survey给出的内容是: free time中看电视和使用计算机的变化趋势: 那就是自由时间(注意这个限制)看电视和使用计算机的两者时间之合为固定值;

第二: 给出的结论是: 使用计算机的时间(注意没有freetime)和看电视的时间都增加了;

所以只有判断是否在上班期间(与freetime对应)使用计算机才能达到加强或者削弱的目的;

wanze

多谢指点