T-9-Q18.

The growing popularity of computer-based activities was widely expected to result in a decline in television viewing, since it had been assumed that people lack sufficient free time to maintain current television-viewing levels while spending increasing amounts of free time on the computer. That assumption, however, is evidently false: in a recent mail survey concerning media use, a very large majority of respondents who report increasing time spent per week using computer report no change in time spent watching television.

Which of the following would be most useful to determine in order to evaluate the argument?

1. Whether a large majority of the survey respondents reported watching television regularly
2. Whether the amount of time spent watching television is declining among people who report that they rarely or never use computers
3. Whether the type of television programs a person watches tends to changes as the amount of time spent per week using computer increases
4. Whether a large majority of the computer owners in the survey reported spending increasing amounts of time per week using computers
5. Whether the survey respondents’ reports of time spent using computers included time spent using computers at work.

提干:电脑的流行导致看电视时间减少,因为时间都花在电脑上,就没时间看电视了.

但是调查显示,大部分回答用电脑时间增加的respondents花在看电视上的时间并没变化

问如何评价此argument

把B E翻译成中文,楼主再思考下

b 是否在那些很少或不使用电脑的respondents中,看电视的时间减少了

e.是否respondents报告的使用电脑时间包括工作中使用的时间