GWD8-Q22
When storing Renaissance oil paintings, museums conform to standards that call for careful control of the surrounding temperature and humidity, with variations confined within narrow margins. Maintaingin this environment is very costly, and recent research shows that even old oil paint is unaffected by wide flucurations in temperature and humidity. therefore, museums could relax their standards and save money without endangering their Renassance oil paintings.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
A. Renaissance paintings were created in conditions involving far greater fluctuations in temperature and humidity than those permitted by current standards.
B. Under the current standards that museums use when storing Renassiance oil paintings, those paintings do not deteriorate at all.
C. Museum collections typically do not contain tiems that are more likely to be vulnerable to fluctuations in temperature and humidity than Renaissance oil paintings.
D. None of the materials in Renaissance oil paintings other than the paint are vulnerable enough to relatively wide fluctuations in temperature and humidity to cause damage to the paintings.
E. Most Renaissance oil paintings are stored in museums located in regions near the regions where the paintings were created.
Correct answer: D
我可以很快的剔除A, B, E, 但覺得C勉強可以.
因為可能有其他東西需要保護, 所以光是paintings可以不用保護還不能確保museums可以不用維護temperature and humidity.
(The argument: 因為paint可以忍受溫度等變化, 所以museums可以不用保護paitings, 因此可以cost down.)
但D看不懂, 意思是這樣嗎?
在Renaissance oil paintings中只有paint可以忍受temperature and humidity的變化 ==> 所以不應該移除保護??
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阿.... 原來是我看不懂vulnerable的意思.......
vulnerable: someone whos is vulnerable is easily harmed or hurt emotionally, physically, or morally.