Tourists have long complained that hotel accommodations in Midville are too expensive. Starting last year, the city council, hoping to attract more tourists, lowered the hotel tax rate to 5 percent of room charges. By the end of last year, Midville had taken in no less money from hotel taxes than it did the year before, so an examination of the hotel records will show that more tourists stayed in city hotels last year than the year before. Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends? A. The tourists who stayed in Midville hotels last year were aware that the hotel tax rate had been lowered. B. The average price of hotel accommodations in Midville was not significantly higher than in hotels in other cities either last year or the year before. C. The average length of a tourist’s stay in Midville hotels was not longer last year than it had been the year before. D. There were significantly more efforts to publicize Midville as a tourist destination last year than there had been the year before. E. On average, tourists in Midville did not spend significantly more on meals last year than they did on hotels accommodations.

MINE E

ANS C

请指教

税率下降了但政府收到的税收金额并没有减少，说明宾馆营业收入增加了，但营业收入增加即可能是入住人员增加，也可能是入住人员的居住时间增加了，C排除了后者，所以前者就是题目的结论自然成立。

E我觉得只能说明宾馆营业收入的增加主要是来源于房费收入，而不是餐饮服务收入。而没有进一步分析房费收入增加原因即C中提到的原因。