The growing popularity of computer-based activities was widely expected to result in a decline in television viewing, since it had been assumed that people lack sufficient free time to maintain current television-viewing levels while spending increasing amounts of free time on the computer. That assumption, however, is evidently false: in a recent mail survey concerning media use, a very large majority of respondents who report increasing time spent per week using computers report no charge in time spent watching television.
Which of the following would it be most useful to determine in order to evaluate the argument?
A. Whether a large majority of the survey respondents reported watching television regularly
B. Whether the amount of time spent watching television is declining among people who report that they rarely or never use computers
C. Whether the type of television programs a person watches tends to change as the amount of time spent per week using computers increases
D. Whether a large majority of the computer owners in the survey reported spending increasing amounts of time per week using computers
E. Whether the survey respondents’ reports of time spent using computers included time spent using computers at work
问题分析:A说大量调查者是否经常看电视,很扯,干掉。
B是围绕那些几乎从来就不看电视的人谈的,范围不对(当我看到people后面加了个who的时候,我会非常关注这个who的修饰,因为这个修饰就是范围类限定)
C说当一个人使用电脑时间增加的时候看电视的节目类型会随之改变,没提,干掉。
D说这帮人使用电脑的时间增加了,这个选项似乎就是把文章最后一句话重复了一次·,问题问的是评价,一个把原文重复一遍的选项不可能评价原文,干掉。
E强调的就是看电脑的时间是否包括了工作中用电脑的时间,整体意思就是围绕看电脑时间来谈的,和原文信息有联系,留着!