想請教各位大大一題 Prep2012 的 CR:
When a city experiences a sharp decline in population, the city's tax
revenues, which pay for such city services as police protection and
maintenance of water lines, also decrease. The area to be policed and the
number and length of the water lines to be maintained, however, do not
decrease. Attempting to make up the tax revenue lost by raising tax rates is
not feasible, since higher tax rates would cause even more residents to leave.
The information given most strongly supports which of the following general
claims?
(A) If, in a city with sharply declining population, police protection and
water line maintenance do not deteriorate, some other service previously
provided by the city will deteriorate or be eliminated.
(B) If a city's tax rates are held stable over a period of time, neither
the population nor the levels of city services provided will tend to
decline over that period.
(C) If a city's population declines sharply, police protection and water
line maintenance are the services that deteriorate most immediately
and most markedly.
(D) A city that suffers revenue losses because of a sharp decline in
population can make up some of the lost tax revenue by raising tax rates,
provided the city's tax rates are low in relation to those of other cities.
(E) A city that is losing residents because tax rates are perceived as too
high by those residents can reverse this population trend by bringing
its tax rates down to a more moderate level.
答案是 (A)，但是我選了 (E)，
我覺得既然 argument 末端扣緊了 tax rate 跟 residents 的關係
應該是 (E) 更直接被上面的 argument 支持，
況且 (A) 選項 "some other service" 難道不屬於無關資訊嗎??
我看到這三個詞兒我就刪了它... 囧||
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