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feiya

Which of the following most logically completes the argument below?

Twenty percent of the stores in Morganville's downtown shopping district will fail within five years because they will be competing directly with the SaveMart discount department store newly opened in East Morganville.The downtown shopping district has lost business at this rate before and has always completely rebounded.Confidence that it will rebound again from the losses it is now about to suffer is ill founded, however, because __________.

A. the stores likely to be put out of business by direct competition from SaveMart are the downtown shopping district's anchor stores, on whose ability to draw shoppers many of the other downtown stores depend
B. the bus line that has long connected the downtown area of Morganville with East Morganville has a tradition of carrying shoppers who reside in East Morganville into downtown Morganville to shop
C. when the downtown shopping district has rebounded before, the business premises of a failed business were typically taken over by a business of the same kind as had been there before
D. SaveMart's business plan for the East Morganville store is based on earning low profits, if any, during the first five years of the store's existence
E. it is conceivable that the downtown shopping district could shrink substantially without collapsing altogether


选A。我想选择C。

文章意思：20%的商店在M的市区在五年内会失败，因为它们要和东边的SM廉价商店直接竞争。市区店在这之前……

A的意思是会失败的商店就是市区的最有竞争力的商店。

C的意思是之所以能反弹是因为类型一样。——>这里不是换成了discount的店了么~类型问题？

NicoleYu

我觉得有一个重要的地方正好被楼主放在省略号中了。。。：）

原文给出的条件包括：
1、由于有直接竞争，会有20%的商家倒闭
2、以前倒闭率也有这么高，而且都恢复回来了（这一部分是被用来做类比的）
3、类比下来，认为这次也能恢复是不对的，求解释

要解释这个现象，就要找出直接竞争导致的倒闭和之前的倒闭有什么不同的地方

A 给出的解释是：直接竞争导致倒闭的商家都是主力商家，其他商家要以他们为基础。也就是说，如果这部分商家倒闭了，影响的范围不只是他们自己，其他商家也会受影响，无法恢复到之前的情况了

而C说的是之前恢复的情况（重建的类型和之前倒闭的类型一样），没有反映出倒闭间的不同，所以是不对的