这道题最后AC中选择了A就是没有读懂这句话想表达的意思。并不认为A是错在proposal不可以say，而是错在intended meaning illogical
EPA的提案对柴油发动机和柴油进行限制，受到了oil industry 的反对，因为他们认为这样的move（即place restrictions）会恶化国内的supply
A than never before, 排除。
B more是作为closely的比较级的构成方式，应该是more closely，more的位置不对。
C 有closely的比较级more closely，要用than，不用as；还有never before不对。
E closely的比较级错误，more的位置不对，排除。
A than后面省略的主语部分是a percentage of the gross national product，句子的意思就变成了”荷兰在保护海岸线上的花费要比他们花在美国军事防御上的花费要多“。
B they没有指代对象。
C their没有指代对象
D 比较对象错误，前面是Holland，than后面是the military defense
PREP上的解释，可以参考一下：
To be parallel, the comparison should be: Holland spends more x on y than the United States spends on z.
The grammatical structure is the same in each clause: the country is the subject; spends and does (spend understood) are the verbs; (x) the percentage of gross national product is the point of comparison; and (y) on defending ... and (z) on military defense are parallel phrases completing the sentence.
People in 20s - 10% read newspaper
People in 30s - 50% read newspaper
You might expect that since the younger generation is not reading the paper much, after some years, the % of people reading the paper will decrease. But the publishers claim that after some years, the % of people reading the paper will stay the same. How can you strengthen it?
What I think will strengthen it: People start reading the paper as they get older or something similar
Option (C) tells you that proportion of people reading the paper in their 20s has always been low. Hence, people who are right now in their 30s were also not reading the paper much when they were in their 20s. Which means that they start reading the paper at a later age. This strengthens the publishers' claim.
B, D and E are out of scope and needn't be considered at all.
As for (A), what we are interested in is the % of paper readers within each age bracket. Whether people in 20s are more or people in 30s are more doesn't matter. We need to keep the % of people reading the paper the same.
B) The one-time costs of changing the automatic toll-collectors would not be significant given the five years of revenue from the increased tolls.
D) Correct. This statement properly identifies a factor that weakens the authority’s financing plan.
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