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?
- Canceling highway projects was
not the only way for the President to punish legislative districts controlled by
opposition parties.
- The scheduled highway projects
identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts
controlled by the President’s party.
- 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.
- 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.
- Reports by nonpartisan auditors
are not generally regarded by the opposition parties as a source of objective
assessments of government projects.
为什么是B呢？ | 
