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题库 / Prep2012-CR-59
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.
这题出得非常好，关键要明白题目所有被取消的都是被认定为浪费的项目。但不是所有被认为是浪费的项目都被取消了。而且被认为是浪费的项目的数量在总统和反对党区域的分部情况是未知的，trick就在这里。是否公平要看canceled project/wasteful project，这个值越大就越不公平。例如，总共被认为浪费的是20个项目，其中只有10个在反对党，但取消了9个。另外10个在总统区，但只取消了1个。这就很不公平。
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