GWD 3-32

yuying8124

Newspaper editorial:>>

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In an attempt to reduce the crime rate, the governor is getting tough on criminals and making prison conditions harsher. Part of this effort has been to deny inmates the access they formerly had to college-level courses. However, this action is clearly counter to the governor’s ultimate goal, since after being released form prison, inmates who had taken such courses committed far fewer crimes overall than other inmates.>>

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Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?>>

1. Not being able to take college-level courses while in prison is unlikely to deter anyone from a crime that he or she might otherwise have committed.
2. Former inmates are no more likely to commit crimes than are members of the general population.
3. The group of inmates who chose to take college-level courses were not already less likely than other inmates to commit crimes after being released.
4. Taking high school level courses in prison has less effect on an inmate’s subsequent behavior than taking college-level courses does.
5. The governor’s ultimate goal actually is to gain popularity by convincing people that something effective is being done about crime.[C]

这题的意思没看懂，“this action is clearly counter to the governor’s ultimate goal” “ inmates who had taken such courses committed far fewer crimes overall than other inmates.”怎么是counter？

lily_chou09

回复 2# waterpoo


  看过的最清楚的解释.谢谢~

lily_chou09

回复 4# yoyozjm1228

政府觉得inmantes的大学教育课是没有用的.
但是这个报纸编辑却反驳,说恰恰相反,因为这些课程才使得那些(受过教育的)出狱后再犯罪的比率比那些(没有受教育)的低.

但是这个反驳是建立在: C 的前提下的. 因为要排除一种可能, 那些在监狱中受教育的人本来就不想再犯了, 即他们再犯罪率低和他们受不受教育没有关系.

有点绕, 但是我已经尽力把自己的意思表述出来了.希望对后面的人有帮助.

yoyozjm1228

还有高手可以解释一下这题题目，我也不是很明白阿

政府目的是降低犯罪率，但argument说因为after being released from prison,inmates who had taken such courses committed far fewer crimes overall than other inmates.既然是committed far fewer crimes overall than other inmates，又怎么会是counter the goal?

yuying8124

i.e. without getting access to college-level courses, the immates might commit more crimes after being release...

" inmates who had taken such courses committed far fewer crimes overall than other inmates."这句话是无法推出上面这句话吧?

waterpoo

Because the original goal of the governaor to get tough on criminals is to reduce the crime rate, however, argument argues that the real result of this action might rusult in the opposite, i.e. without getting access to college-level courses, the immates might commit more crimes after being release... but this conclusion is based on the assumptiont that those immates were not originally less likely than other inmates to commit crimes after being released. so the answer is C.