The number of aircraft collisions on the ground is increasing because of the substantial increase in the number of flights operated by the airlines. Many of the fatalities that occur in such collisions are caused not by the collision itself, but by an inherent flaw in the cabin design of most aircraft, in which seats, by restricting access to emergency exits, impede escape. Therefore, to reduce the total number of fatalities that result annually from such collisions, the airlines should be required to remove all seats that restrict access to emergency exits.
10. Which one of the following proposals, if implemented together with the proposal made in the passage, would improve the prospects for achieving the stated objective of reducing fatalities?
(A) The airlines should be required, when buying new planes, to buy only planes with unrestricted access to emergency exits.
(B) The airlines should not be permitted to increase further the number of lights in order to offset the decrease in the number of seats on each aircraft.
(C) Airport authorities should be required to streamline their passenger check-in procedures to accommodate the increased number of passengers served by the airlines.
(D) Airport authorities should be required to refine security precautions by making them less conspicuous without making them less effective.
(E) The airlines should not be allowed to increase the ticket price for each passenger to offset the decrease in the number of seats on each aircraft.
答案:B,我选A,答案是不是错了?B是无关的.
10）我只是排除A.
作者是说这些seat阻止了逃生，所以这些seat (that restrict access to emergency exits)应该被去掉。
A.只是说买回这些飞机，这些飞机是可以不限制访问emergency exits。是否有seat阻止了不限制访问emergency exits? 不知道。可以排除。
B 说明了不用允许用lights(这是个啥东东，不知道)来弥补seats的减少。对B取反。如果通过减少seats而减少对逃生的阻止，同时又假如因为增加 lights(是否真的能？不知道) 而阻止了逃生的话，那就......
这是perfection的解答。
关键词很重要。
原文结构是：
1 number of flights increase -> number of collision increase
2 restrict access -> many fatalities
proposal 1: remove restrict -> decrease fatalities
这是SmileFM的解答。
Q: what proposal + proposal 1 -> further decrease fatalities
B: no increase in number of flights -> 针对条件1，如果增加，撞机增加，由此导致基数增大
A: 我个人感觉仅是对proposal 1 的重复。
我还是有点糊涂，能不能再讲讲，谢谢。作者: himba 时间: 2005-3-9 13:25
如果B应该是这样的话：就好明白多了,对吗？
The airlines should not be permitted to increase further the number of lights（ flights flights 因为直到现在我也不明白这个lights 指的是什么 ） in order to offset the decrease in the number of seats on each aircraft.
