GWD-8-Q22 When storing Renaissance oil paintings, museums conformto standards that call for careful control of the surrounding temperature andhumidity, with variations confined within narrow margins. Maintaining thisenvironment is very costly, and recent research shows that even old oil paintis unaffected by wide fluctuations in temperature and humidity. Therefore,museums could relax their standards and save money without endangering theirRenaissance oil paintings.
Which of the following is an assumption on which theargument depends?
A. Renaissance paintings were created in conditions involving far greaterfluctuations in temperature and humidity than those permitted by currentstandards.
B. Under the current standards that museums use when storing Renaissance oilpaintings, those paintings do not deteriorate at all.
C. Museum collections typically do not contain items that are more likely tobe vulnerable to fluctuations in temperature and humidity than Renaissance oilpaintings.
D. None of the materials in Renaissance oil paintings other than the paintare vulnerable enough to relatively wide fluctuations in temperature andhumidity to cause damage to the paintings.
E. Most Renaissance oil paintings are stored in museums located in regionsnear the regions where the paintings were created.
答案d，求指教
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