Commissioner: Budget forecasters project a revenue shortfall of a billion dollars in the coming fiscal year. Since there is no feasible way to increase the available funds, our only choice is to decrease expenditures. The plan before you outlines feasible cuts that would yield savings of a billion dollars over the coming fiscal year. We will be able to solve the problem we face, therefore, only if we adopt this plan.
This reasoning in the commissioner’s argument is flawed because this argument
A. relies on information that is far from certain
B. confuses being an adequate solution with being a required solution
C. inappropriately relies on the opinions of experts
D. inappropriately employs language that is vague
E. takes for granted that there is no way to increase available funds
adequate solution means a feasible way, one of all feasible ways...
required solution means the only way ...
充分必要的问题
Commissioner: Budget forecasters project a revenue shortfall of a billion dollars in the coming fiscal year. Since there is no feasible way to increase the available funds, our only choice is to decrease expenditures.
our only feasible way is to
this promise told us to decrease expenditures is the only feasible way we have to do...but it is not the required way
there can be other choices ...
however
The plan before you outlines feasible cuts that would yield savings of a billion dollars over the coming fiscal year. We will be able to solve the problem we face, therefore, [only if ]we adopt this plan.
the key word is only if...
only if means there is no way other than decease expenditure, an assumption not mentioned in the previous promise
so B is correct作者: lshlccER 时间: 2012-8-29 06:24
