Q27:

Newspaper editorial:

In an attempt to reduce the crime rate, the governor is getting tough on criminals and making prison conditions harsher.  Part of this effort has been to deny inmates the access they formerly had to college-level courses.  However, this action is clearly counter to the governor’s ultimate goal, since after being released form prison, inmates who had taken such courses committed far fewer crimes overall than other inmates.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

1. Not being able to take college-level courses while in prison is unlikely to deter anyone from a crime that he or she might otherwise have committed.

2. Former inmates are no more likely to commit crimes than are members of the general population.

3. The group of inmates who chose to take college-level courses were not already less likely than other inmates to commit crimes after being released.

4. Taking high school level courses in prison has less effect on an inmate’s subsequent behavior than taking college-level courses does.

5. The governor’s ultimate goal actually is to gain popularity by convincing people that something effective is being done about crime.

   Answer: C.

我选的是B。The assumption is that the action won't reduce the crime rate because the governor denies the inmates' access to college courses, since after being released form prison, inmates who had taken such courses committed far fewer crimes overall than other inmates. 所以就是说college course is very important to reduce the inmates crime rate after they are released.但是C是说，take college course or not结果都是一样的，那不正好和这个assumption相反吗？我首先就排除了这个。

所以，请问，为什么选C呢？

同时，还有一个40题：

Q40.

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?

1. Canceling highway projects was not the only way for the President to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.

2. The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts controlled by the President’s party.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Reports by nonpartisan auditors are not generally regarded by the opposition parties as a source of objective assessments of government projects.

   Answer: B，我选的是A

如果C取非，也就是说这些人在选读这些Courses之前已经比另外的人少了犯罪的念头了~那么这样就对题目里面说是因为上了那些course而导致他们更少犯罪起了削弱作用，所以不存在这样的情况是这个argument的assumption.

第一道题不是选A吗？我记得费是说选A的

C明显不对，取非加强了，怎么会是假设呢