GWD-17-9

acrophobia

Press Secretary:  Our critics claim that the President’s recent highway project cancellations demonstrate a vindictive desire to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.  They offer as evidence the fact that 90 percent of the projects canceled were in such districts.  But all of the canceled projects had been identified as wasteful in a report written by respected nonpartisan auditors.  So the President’s choice was clearly motivated by sound budgetary policy, not partisan politics.



Which of the following is an assumption on which the press secretary’s argument depends?



Canceling highway projects was not the only way for the President to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.
The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts controlled by the President’s party.
The number of projects canceled was a significant proportion of all the highway projects that were to be undertaken by the government in the near future.
The highway projects canceled in districts controlled by the President’s party were not generally more expensive than the projects canceled in districts controlled by opposition parties.
Reports by nonpartisan auditors are not generally regarded by the opposition parties as a source of objective assessments of government projects.

怎么解？感觉GWD17难度不小。。

zm_patrickS

我是选A，是啊，我也觉得17难度不低。

不知道为什么是C。

zhaoyiqing

谈谈我的拙见吧!

结论落到说由于一个无党派的专家同志说所有取消了的projects都是浪费的,所以总统取消highway的选择是出于对预算的控制而不是党派之争. 问assumption.

看A,取消highway不是唯一总统可以采取的手段来惩罚反对党,就是说总统有很多手段可以惩罚反对党,那也不能代表总统就不用取消project的手段啊,说不定总统用这个也用别的.

看C,被取消的projects的数量占将来政府要做的所有highway的projects的很大比例.取消了多少和总统是不是因为对预算的控制而不是由于党派之争来取消的无关.题中说到是取消了的都被证明是浪费的,不能说取消的数量多就是考虑了预算.

看D,说总统的党管的地方取消的projects并不比反对党管的地方取消的projects贵. D取非,总统那边取消的比反对党取消的总的来说要贵.题中并没有说过贵就一定要取消,只是说取消的都是wasteful的.贵不贵和是否浪费不是一个概念.并没有削弱结论说总统是考虑了预算,而不是党派的问题.

E说无党派的同志的报告并不被反对党认为是客观的.不取非就weaken了.

最后还是要说说B,被报告认为是浪费的highway projects并不是大部分是总统那边的,取非说被认为是浪费的projects大部分都是总统这边的,那么说明总统没有考虑预算，弄了一大堆浪费的projects.

大家一起讨论吧.头有点晕.

nymphl

再看一下the scheduled highway projects和the canceled （highway) projects是有区别的，

It seemed the President only cancelled part of the wasterful highway projects but not all of the wasterful projects. As a result the conclusion here is more like a plausible one.

mingzhu99

原文有个GAP,就是所有被取消的项目都被审计人员认为是浪费的,可是并不代表所有审计人员认为浪费的都已经被取消了,而B正好填了这个GAP!

小娟子NUNU

哦，想了10多分钟，终于明白了——

B句子的主干是这样的：被认定为wasteful而仍然要上马的项目，不是总统这边的大部分项目。当然是个assumption，因为如果取非，即总统这边的项目，多数都是被认定为wasteful而仍然要上马，证明总统又党派斗争的嫌疑；因为反对党那边，很多项目被认定为wasteful的项目都被取消了。

对否？