GWD 13-5

[Belly30]

Q5:
Vorland’s government is planning a nationwide ban on smoking in restaurants. The objection that the ban would reduce restaurants’ revenues is ill founded. Several towns in Vorland enacted restaurant smoking restrictions five years ago. Since then, the amount the government collects in restaurant meal taxes in those towns has increased 34 percent, on average, but only 26 percent elsewhere in Vorland. The amount collected in restaurant meal taxes closely reflects restaurants’ revenues.

Which of the following, if true, most undermines the defense of the government’s plan?

A. When the state first imposed a restaurant meal tax, opponents predicted that restaurants’ revenues would decline as a result, a prediction that proved to be correct in the short term.
B. The tax on meals in restaurants is higher than the tax on many other goods and services.
C. Over the last five years, smoking has steadily declined throughout Vorland.
D. In many of the towns that restrict smoking in restaurants, restaurants can maintain separate dining areas where smoking is permitted.
E. Over the last five years, government revenues from sales taxes have grown no faster in the towns with restaurant smoking restrictions than in the towns that have no such restrictions.

Answer: D

我選E. 有沒有人能幫我解釋一下為什麼要選D. 而不是E
謝謝 :)

[魚]

Q5:
Vorland’s government is planning a nationwide ban on smoking in restaurants. The objection that the ban would reduce restaurants’ revenues is ill founded. Several towns in Vorland enacted restaurant smoking restrictions five years ago. Since then, the amount the government collects in restaurant meal taxes in those towns has increased 34 percent, on average, but only 26 percent elsewhere in Vorland. The amount collected in restaurant meal taxes closely reflects restaurants’ revenues.

Which of the following, if true, most undermines the defense of the government’s plan?

A. When the state first imposed a restaurant meal tax, opponents predicted that restaurants’ revenues would decline as a result, a prediction that proved to be correct in the short term.
B. The tax on meals in restaurants is higher than the tax on many other goods and services.
C. Over the last five years, smoking has steadily declined throughout Vorland.
D. In many of the towns that restrict smoking in restaurants, restaurants can maintain separate dining areas where smoking is permitted.
E. Over the last five years, government revenues from sales taxes have grown no faster in the towns with restaurant smoking restrictions than in the towns that have no such restrictions.

Answer: D

我選E. 有沒有人能幫我解釋一下為什麼要選D. 而不是E
謝謝 :)

hi belly :

1.文章描述Vorland’s government 的new ban and waken 那些 objector提出的理由
2. 題目問weaken ----->對象是new ban

(D)In many of the towns that restrict smoking in restaurants, restaurants can maintain separate dining areas where smoking is permitted.
說明了,那些restaurants 不是全面禁煙

如果D 成立,這樣那些餐廳營收增加的因素就可能是其他原因,如此一來,文章中為了weakens那些反對者所提出的後續闡述(Several towns in Vorland enacted restaurant smoking restrictions five years ago. Since then, the amount the government collects in restaurant meal taxes in those towns has increased 34 percent, ....)就不能成立了 ^^

[Belly30]

:o 喔喔~原來是降子呀!
謝謝你的解釋囉 :)
我懂了!!

[asicschu]

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[魚]

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大家互相幫忙嚕

[訪客]

Good job!!!
Fish

[asicschu]

哪裡哪裡 :-$

屑屑豬豬妹稱讚哩 ^^

大家互相幫忙嚕

今天知道我的性別了...
應該不會再搞錯了吧!!

[魚]

哪裡哪裡 :-$

屑屑豬豬妹稱讚哩 ^^

大家互相幫忙嚕

今天知道我的性別了...
應該不會再搞錯了吧!!

nosee 請豬豬弟原諒偶吧

[micht]

哈~~~原來"asicschu"不是妹妹呀 (d12) 了改

[bugubugu]

我想知道題目最後一句:

The amount collected in restaurant meal taxes closely reflects restaurants’ revenues.

是推論還是事實?
若是推論...
那麼E剛好有反駁耶....
因為它的意思是說...
雖然政府講說他們收的meal taxes有比較高....
但其實sales tax這邊反應的revenue是沒有成長的...
表示不能由meal taxes來反應revenue這件事...
而原題就是要講政府defend禁煙不會影響revenue這件事不是嗎?

[Behemoth]

我認為是事實~

[Jessy]

E. Over the last five years, government revenues from sales taxes have grown no faster in the towns with restaurant smoking restrictions than in the towns that have no such restrictions.

no faster than 不等於 slower than
也有 equal 的可能, 所以E不選

[bugubugu]

E. Over the last five years, government revenues from sales taxes have grown no faster in the towns with restaurant smoking restrictions than in the towns that have no such restrictions.

no faster than 不等於 slower than
也有 equal 的可能, 所以E不選

ㄟ...
我覺得最後一句若是推論的話...
即使equal也是有反駁政府的計劃...
因為那正表士其它衡良revenue的東東(sales tax)並沒有變...
政府不應該看meal tax的增加就說ban不會影響revenue....

所以重點應該是最後一句的判斷...
是事實還是推論....

[best555tw]

我也一直覺的E是weaken
但後來發現兩個字
ban跟restriction
因為現在政府要ban
但之前的收入會好是因為他們只有restriciotn，所以可以分兩區來營業
因此收入較高
如ban的話，就不行了
因此跟政府的前提並不相同
所以D最好

[wangdaven]

不過我覺得(E)的問題主要還是在二個
1.meal tax和sale taxes的關連性, 題目沒定義, 不能自己猜測
(結果我還是選到E, 為了趕速度, 看到taxes就開槍, 檢討才發現根本是不一樣的東西)
2.no faster than相當有問題,
大家都知道ETS的邏輯:成長速度不等於成長數量的多少
就好像,長的快不一定長的高
成長速度快慢又如何? 最後的結果還是34%和26%
不會影響推論的結果