OG12 CR109

dancingrain

109．Springfield Fire Commissioner: The vast majority offalse fire alarms are prank calls made anonymouslyfrom fire alarm boxes on street corners. Since virtuallyeveryone has access to a private telephone, thesealarm boxes have outlived their usefulness. Therefore,we propose to remove the boxes. Removing the boxeswill reduce the number of prank calls withouthampering people's ability to report a fire.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports
the claim that the proposal, if carried out, will have the
announced effect?

(A)The fire department traces all alarm calls made
from private telephones and records where they
came from.

(B)Maintaining the fire alarm boxes costs
Springfield approximately $5 million annually.

(0A telephone call can provide the fire department
with more information about the nature and
size of a fire than can an alarm placed from an
alarm box.

(D)Responding to false alarms significantly reduces
the fire department's capacity for responding

to fires.


(E)On any given day, a significant percentage of
the public telephones in Springfield are out of
service.

答案选A没有问题。只是不太懂选项C的解释说there is still possibility that the only person aware that a fire has started near an alarm box but lacks access to a telephone. 题干中不是都说了virtually everyone has access to a private phone, 怎么还会有人lack access to a telephone呢

aprilsusu

顶起来！这道题我也觉得og解释不对，因为人人有手机就是拆掉box的前提条件，觉得不能反驳，个人认为应该是C没有A好，A支持了两方面，C只说了因为有手机所以不会妨碍人们报警但没说关于假警报的问题。求NN指导！

tiny106

我觉得virtually不能等同于全都有，还是可能有个别人没有的。 而且我觉得private telephone不是指手机，而是指私人电话。手机是cellphone或者mobile phone.

wangxiaokun

一家之言。我认为这道题之所以C不对A对是因为A能够缩小private phone和alarm boxes之间的差别。
private call和alarm boxes之间的差别就在于alarm boxes是固定的，而且应该是与相关部门的系统相连的，所以alarm boxes的好处就在于能够迅速定位火情。通过A选项，我们知道private telephone也能够起到相同的作用——因为就像alarm boxes一样，fire department 也可以对它定位追踪。这样一来fire alarm boxes的优势就不存在了，能够支持remove boxes的proposal。

C的话nature and size不是private call和alarm boxes的本质区别，所以还是A最好。

这种题目是实质上是比较alarm boxes和private telephone，想要support其中一方就要把两者之间的差别缩小。

Jez

顶，楼主我也不明白OG解释的那句话
there is still possibility that the only person aware that a fire has started near an alarm box but lacks access to a telephone. 究竟是什么意思，静候NN
还是会有人在目睹火灾时虽然靠近fire box但却没有电话，what？？（黑人问号）

lisiberry

Jez 发表于 2017-3-18 00:05
顶，楼主我也不明白OG解释的那句话
there is still possibility that the only person aware that a fire h ...

我觉得这个选项的解释不对。因为按照这个解释，A也没强调如何解决没有手机的问题。那这道题岂不是没有正确选项？不选C的解释你的楼上的前辈解释得挺清楚的。Ron说OG的出题人都是高手中的高高手，但写答案的人水平就一般了。

Jez

lisiberry 发表于 2017-3-18 00:58
我觉得这个选项的解释不对。因为按照这个解释，A也没强调如何解决没有手机的问题。那这道题岂不是没有正确 ...

哈哈哈 昨天我还在想要不要一字一句研究CR答案，但发现好多文不对题，原来出题人和写答案的人不是同一个啊，也怪不得，辛苦他们给每一个选项都编出个道理了?