[問題] Fei-Fei #79

[JensenWT]

Despite improvements in treatment for asthma氣喘, the death rate from this disease has doubled during the past decade from its previous rate. Two possible explanations for this increase have been offered. First, the recording of deaths due to asthma has become more widespread and accurate in the past decade than it had been previously. Second, there has been an increase in urban pollution. However, since the rate of deaths due to asthma has increased dramatically even in cities with long-standing, comprehensive medical records and with little or no urban pollution, one must instead conclude that the cause of increased deaths is the use of bronchial inhalers by asthma sufferers to relieve their symptoms.

79. Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

A. Urban pollution has not doubled in the past decade.
B. Doctors and patients generally ignore the role of allergies in asthma.
C. Bronchial inhalers are unsafe, even when used according to the recommended instructions.
D. The use of bronchial inhalers aggravates other diseases that frequently occur among asthma sufferers and that often lead to fatal outcomes even when the asthma itself does not.
E. Increased urban pollution, improved recording of asthma deaths, and the used of asthma deaths, and the use of bronchial inhalers are the only possible explanations of the increased death rate due to asthma.

參考答案：E
思路：不是解釋1和2，就是解釋3。隱含了1，2，3外沒用其他解釋的理由。
A. 支持。
B. 無關。中心是role的問題。
C. 可以算無關，也可以算削弱。
D. 加強
E. 取非，除了1，2，3解釋還有其他解釋。典型的他因削弱，符合ETS 假設定義。

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雖然它有解釋了
不過我越看越不明白答案位什麼是E
我以為是D耶.....

[JensenWT]

發完文章之後再看兩遍突然好像了解了
不好意思~
耽誤大家的時間了

[dianechiu]

其實我對選項(E)有點疑問
E. Increased urban pollution, improved recording of asthma deaths, and the used of asthma deaths, and the use of bronchial inhalers are the only possible explanations of the increased death rate due to asthma.
覺得, and the used of asthma deaths,是多餘的
一來沒出現在文章中,二來也不太符合文法(,and...,and...)
是不是答案怪怪的
如果把這句話去掉,(E)會更完美吧...