[LR][PT23-S2-Q18] Strength Pattern

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Columnist: The advent of televisionhelps to explain why the growth in homicide rates in urban areas begansignificantly earlier than the growth in homicide rates in rural areas.Television sets became popular in urban households about four years earlier thanin rural households. Urban homicide rates began increasing in 1955, about fouryears earlier than a similar increase in rural homicide rates began.


Which one of the following, if true,most support the columnist’s argument?


(A) In places where the number ofviolent television programs is low, the homicide rates are also low.
(B) The portrayal of violence ontelevision is a cause not an effect of the violence in society. (OA)


第一次做题直接看到(A)就选了, 感觉有支持, 但可能没有(B)来得好吧
请教是否确立因果关系也是一种strength pattern?
谢谢

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Columnist: The advent of televisionhelps to explain why the growth in homicide rates in urban areas begansignificantly earlier than the growth in homicide rates in rural areas.Television sets became p ...
umcwayne 发表于 2010-8-25 19:05

是的。
Strength Question，就是要 support 因果关系。

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bible上說"In Strengthen questions, supporting a cause and effect relationship almost
always consists of performing one of the following tasks:"
這應該是屬於
D. Eliminate the possibility that the stated relationship is reversed
Because the author believes that the cause and effect relationship is
correctly stated, eliminating the possibility that the relationship is
backwards (the claimed effect is actually the cause of the claimed cause)
strengthens the conclusion.