cr prep12 59求指教

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Prep12 CR 59

Press Secretary: our critics claim that the president's recent highway  project cancellations demonstrate a vindictive desire to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties. They offer as evidence the fact that 90 percent of the projects canceled were in such districts. But all of the canceled projects had been identified as wasteful in a report wrtten by respected nonpartisan auditors. So the president's choice was clearly motivated by sound budgetary policy, not partisan politics.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the press secretar's argument depends?

A. Calceling highway projects was not the only way fo the president to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.
B. The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts controlled by the president's party.
C. The number of projects canceled was a significant proportion of all the highway projects that were to be undertaken by the government in the near future.
D. The highway projects canceled in districts controlled by the president's party were not generally more expensive then the projects canceled in districts controlled by opposition parties.
E. Reports by nonpartisan auditors are not generally regarded by the opposition parties as a source of objective assessments of government projects.

答案是B。我选了E，不懂为什么是B 不是E~~求指教

老李同志

区分两个关键词： 1. canceled were in such districts.已经被cancel的项目 2.scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful被认定为wastful的项目。 B的意思为，为认定为wastful的项目大部分并不是执政党的。取非：被认定为wasteful的项目大多是都是执政党的，但真正cancel的项目大多数却是方对党的，这就削弱了结论。

老李同志

如果多数被认为是浪费资源的项目是在反对党所控制的地区而非总统所辖区，那么取消更多反对党所控区的项目就是很正常的，并非处于政治报复。