作者：英吉
Tourists have long complained that hotel accommodations in Midville are too expensive. Starting last year, the city council, hoping to attract more tourists, lowered the hotel tax rate to 5 percent of room charges. By the end of last year, Midville had taken in no less money from hotel taxes than it did the year before, so an examination of the hotel records will show that more tourists stayed in city hotels last year than the year before.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
A.The tourists who stayed in Midville hotels last year were aware that the hotel tax rate had been lowered.
B.The average price of hotel accommodations in Midville was not significantly higher than in hotels in other cities either last year or the year before.
C.The average length of a tourist’s stay in Midville hotels was not longer last year than it had been the year before.
D.There were significantly more efforts to publicize Midville as a tourist destination last year than there had been the year before.
E.On average, tourists in Midville did not spend significantly more on meals last year than they did on hotels accommodations.
题目分析：A说旅客已经意识到税开始降了，没说，杀（这个选项得were aware体现出主观意愿，逻辑原文为了保证逻辑严密一般不会带有主观色彩，选项中如果出现主观意愿这个选项一定是错的，例如：be willing to，be reluctant to， be forced to，be assigned to ，enjoy等）。B说了其他城市，明显范围不对，杀。（看到B的时候曾经一时犹豫，因为这个选项出现了average这个词，我们说过，正确答案中经常包含这个词汇，原文是这个词汇会使选项的范围和原文的范围相交的比较少，让我们选出来有难度，比如原文说工作时间，有一个选项说平均每小时工资，平均每小时工资就和原文的工作时间相交，只不过幅度没那么大，但后来发现后面的other才确认此选项不可能）C也说average了，其他地方无明显错误，先留着。D说去年比前年有更多宣传，没说，杀。E说游客话费多少吃饭，原文围绕的是住宿情况谈的，这个说吃饭花钱多少，驴唇不对马嘴，杀。
