Q40:

Community activist: If Morganville wants to keep its central shopping district healthy, it should prevent the opening of a huge SaveAll discount department store on the outskirts of Morganville. Records from other small towns show that whenever SaveAll has opened a store outside the central shopping district of a small town, within five years the town has experienced the bankruptcies of more than a quarter of the stores in the shopping district.

The answer to which of the following would be most useful for evaluating the community activist’s reasoning?

Have community activists in other towns successfully campaigned against the opening of a SaveAll store on the outskirts of their towns? Do a large percentage of the residents of Morganville currently do almost all of their shopping at stores in Morganville? In towns with healthy central shopping districts, what proportion of the stores in those districts suffer bankruptcy during a typical five-year period? What proportion of the employees at the SaveAll store on the outskirts of Morganville will be drawn form Morganville? Do newly opened SaveAll stores ever lose money during their first five years of operation?

答案为C。

对于EVALUATION题，判断答案标准是：对答案的不同回答可以SUPPORT和WEAKEN原文结论

对于C的不同回答：

WEAKEN结论：如果通常破产率高于A QUARTER，则原文说的这个破产率是正常的，并非是建 SaveAll discount department store 的原因。

SUPPORT结论：如果通常破产率低于A QUARTER，则原文说的这个破产率是不正常的，可能是建 SaveAll discount department store 的原因。