16. In a political system with only two major parties, the entrance of a third-party candidate into an election race damages the chances of only one of the two major candidates. The third-party candidate always attracts some of the voters who might otherwise have voted for one of the two major candidates, but not voters who support the other candidate. Since a third-party candidacy affects the two major candidates unequally, for reasons neither of them has any control over, the practice is unfair and should not be allowed.

If the factual information in the passage above is true, which of the following can be most reliably inferred from it?

(A) If the political platform of the third party is a compromise position between that of the two major parties, the third party will draw its voters equally from the two major parties.

(B) If, before the emergence of a third party, voters were divided equally between the two major parties, neither of the major parties is likely to capture much more than one-half of the vote.

(C) A third-party candidate will not capture the votes of new voters who have never voted for candidates of either of the two major parties.

(D) The political stance of a third party will be more radical than that of either of the two major parties.（B）

(E) The founders of a third party are likely to be a coalition consisting of former leaders of the two major parties.

完全不明白这道题是这么推出B的。

第三党候选人吸引到的投票是那些不投两大党候选人的那些人。不是那些支持两大党之外候选人的投票者。就是说没有这第三党，还是有一些投票者不支持这两党的候选人。

我认为是这样解释的：

原来A、B两党，后来来了C党；投C党的通常是这样的人，他们在没有C党的时候，要不投A

不投B，要不投B不投A，不会同时投两党的票。因此，C党对两党的作用是不同的，因此就

不公平了。

很显然，B说的是，如果没有C情况下，平分选民，那么A和B都不会得到多于半数的票；意

思就是说大家都是只选一票。照应了原文。

个人意见。