104.Although the discount stores in Goreville’s centralshopping district are expected to close within fiveyears as a result of competition from a SpendLessdiscount department store that just opened, thoselocations will not stay vacant for long. In the five yearssince the opening of Colson’s, a non-discountdepartment store, a new store has opened at the location of every store in the shopping district thatclosed because it could not compete with Colson’s.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakensthe argument?
(A) Many customers of Colson’s are expected to doless shopping there than they did before theSpendLess store opened.
(B) Increasingly, the stores that have opened in thecentral shopping district since Colson’s openedhave been discount stores.
(C) At present, the central shopping district has asmany stores operating in it as it everhad.
(D) Over the course of the next five years, it isexpected that Goreville’s population will grow ata faster rate than it has for the past severaldecades.
(E) Many stores in the central shopping district selltypes of merchandise that are not available ateither SpendLess or Colson’s.作者: flyfairy019 时间: 2011-11-7 21:15
我今天认真分析了一下这个题，想和大家讨论一下。因为我想通它花了点时间
首先，一看是weaken类型的题目，我就想先找出结论，因为没有结论指示词，我花了半天才找出结论是“those locations will not stay vacant for long”，而后面那句话“In the ? ve years since the opening of Colson’s, a nondiscount department store, a new store has opened at the location of every store in the shopping district that closed because it could not compete with Colson’s. ”实际上是对结论的推理，也就是解释为什么会得出结论。至此可以发现其实它是用了一个类比的方法，用五年前C的情况，类比现在G和S的情况。
