GWD25-Q22

Springfield Fire Commissioner: the vast majority of false fire alarms

are prank calls made anonymously from fire alarm boxes on street

corners. Since virtually everyone has access to a private telephone,

these alarm boxes have outlived their usefulness. Therefore, we

propose to remove the boxes. Removing the boxes will reduce the

number of prank calls without hampering people’s ability to report a fire.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the claim that the

proposal, if carried out, will have the announced effect?

A.     The fire department traces all alarm calls made from private tele-

phones and records where they came from.

B.     Maintaining the fire alarm boxes costs Springfield approximately

five million dollars annually.

C.    A telephone call can provide the fire department with more informa-

tion about the nature and size of a fire than can an alarm placed

from an alarm box.

D.    Responding to false alarms significantly reduces the fire depart-

ment’s capacity for responding to fires.

E.     On any given day, a significant percentage of the public telephones

in Springfield are out of service.

                           Answer:C

我怎么觉得是A呀？C好像并不能使假警报减少啊 A的话因为可以追查到private telephones的来源，所以假报警的人就不敢打了呀 减少了假警报而且without hampering people’s ability to report a fire  谁能解释一下？谢谢~

few month ago, I vote for C ; however, this time I stand with

you.

C is talking about something that will happen after the call is

made. But conclusion is talking about the ablilty of report that

private calling has, the content or following is not the point of

the conclusion.

conclusion has two requirements:1.reduce prank calls 2.private

calls can be made by people to report fire alarm.

As we know, the argument has saied that virtually,everyone has a

private call so everybody could use it to report a fire. Just

thinking, alarm box at the corner of street has no function of

saying everything to firehouse so private call is better

relatively.

Reduce prank calls: most of them came from alarm box, if we cut

the amount of them and use private calls to replace these boxes,

it will make sense when private calls have access to almost

everyone.

A could meet the needs of these 2 requirements. I vote for A this

time.

open to discussion...