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 written 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 secretary’s argument depends?

A.      Canceling highway projects was not the only way for 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 than 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.

而且觉得B不就重复了一下原题中的那句话么？ 意思是 大部分cancel的projects在的区都在反对党控制下。

这说了不说有啥用么？不解不解啊。。。。。。。。。。

The cancellation is unbiased based on the audit report of the independent (nonpartisan) auditor. From the report, these projects are identified as wasteful.

The passage say about two things:

1) 90% of canceled projects are concentrated in such districts, claimed by president’s political opponents

2)critics claim that the President’s recent highway project cancellations demonstrate a vindictive desire to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties

What is missing between these two points is that such districts from statement 1) are the same districts as legislative districts mentioned in statement 2) controlled by opposition party.

“The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts controlled by the President’s party”

This assumption connect statement 1) and 2) and offer the reason why opposition part critic about the president’s cancellation of high way project and cited the “90% of project…in such district” as evidence in purporting their critic.