Q32:

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.

我选择了e..  但答案是b... 请求高手指点。。。

E貌似很对,但细看正好相反,E取非后变成审计报告被反对方认为是客观的,支持了

原文,所以不是假设

B若取非:变成那些被认为没有必要的浪费的项目大都发生在总统党的区域内---这不

是Press Secretary自己打自己,说总统不公正,搞腐败吗?

还是不能理解！我因为原文的逻辑如下：

对方的逻辑：90 percent of the projects canceled were in such districts.----------推导出------President’s recent highway project cancellations demonstrate a vindictive desire to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.

Press Secretary:的观点是： all of the canceled projects had been identified as wasteful in a report written by respected nonpartisan auditors. －－－－－－－－－推导出－－－－－－President’s choice was clearly motivated by sound budgetary policy, not partisan politics

因此，要使得Press Secretary:的观点正确的话，则其论据必须与opposition parties.有联系才行！

因此，这样分析的话　b还是不正确。

B说：取消的工程项目的的确确基本都在另外一个党的地盘里。

Press Secretary：

1.90 percent of the projects canceled were in such districts controlled by

opposition parties

2.But canceled projects had been identified as wasteful

由1和2得出 President’s choice was clearly motivated by sound budgetary

policy, not partisan politics。

原文说： 新闻官说： 批评家们说 90% 的被取消的项目都是在野党的地盘。

所以总统同学是党派挤压。 但是另外一帮无党派人士的统计发现所有的被取消的项

目都在浪费项目列表里。 所以说挤压是错误的。

问新闻官的assumption：

B说浪费列表里占多数的项目不是执政党地盘的。 取非就是说浪费列表里大部分项目

都在执政党地盘。 那么就是否定了被取消项目和浪费列表项目的相关性。 也就否定

了新闻官的argument。

E无关。

谢谢大侠指点。。。我终于明白了！！

还想问一下的是，该道题属于assuption的那个类型呢？

谢谢