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  3. Curator: If our museum lends Venus to the Hart Institute for their show this spr

Curator: If our museum lends Venus to the Hart Institute for their show this spr

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问题 Curator: If our museum lends Venus to the Hart Institute for their show this spring, they will lend us their Rembrandt etchings for our print exhibition next fall. Having those etchings will increase attendance to the exhibition and hence increase revenue from our general admission fee.
Museum Administrator: But Venus is our biggest attraction. Moreover the Hart’s show will run for twice as long as our exhibition. So on balance the number of patrons may decrease.
The point of the administrator’s response to the curator is to question
选项 A、whether getting the Rembrandt etchings from the Hart Institute is likely to increase attendance at the print exhibition
B、whether the Hart Institute’s Rembrandt etchings will be appreciated by those patrons of the curator’s museum for whom the museum’s biggest attraction is Venus
C、whether the number of patrons attracted by the Hart Institute’s Rembrandt etchings will be larger than the number of patrons who do not come in the spring because Venus is on loan
D、whether, if Venus is lent, the museum’s revenue from general admission fees during the print exhibition will exceed its revenue from general admission fees during the Hart Institute’s exhibition
E、whether the Hart Institute or the curator’s museum will have the greater financial gain from the proposed exchange of artworks
答案 C
解析 Argument Construction
Situation A curator and a museum administrator debate whether lending a particular artwork to the Hart Institute in exchange for a loan of some of the Hart Institute’s artworks would increase or decrease attendance and revenue at the museum.
Reasoning Which of the curator’s explicit or implicit claims is the museum administrator questioning? The administrator’s statements that Venus is the museum’s biggest attraction and that the Hart Institute’s show will run twice as long as the museum’s exhibition do not directly conflict with my statement or assumption made by the curator. However, the administrator’s conclusion is that on balance the number of patrons at the museum may decrease if the curator’s proposal is followed. This conclusion calls into question the curator’s claim that the proposal will increase revenue from the general admission fee, since that claim presupposes that on balance the proposal will increase the number of visitors to the museum. (The context suggests that the administrator is using the term patrons to mean visitors rather than donors.)
A The administrator does not dispute that the Rembrandt etchings would probably increase attendance at the print exhibition but rather suggests that this increase would be exceeded by the loss of visitors to the museum while the Hart Institute borrows Venus.
B Neither the curator nor the administrator comments on whether the patrons attracted to the Rembrandt etchings would be the same people attracted to Venus.
C Correct. The curator implicitly infers that the former number will be larger than the latter, whereas the administrator questions this by asserting that the latter number may be larger than the former.
D The administrator does not question whether the revenue during the print exhibition will exceed the revenue during the Hart Institute’s exhibition, but rather whether it will exceed the loss of revenue during the Hart Institute’s exhibition.
E Neither the curator nor the administrator comments on whether the museum would gain more or less from the exchange than the Hart Institute would.
The correct answer is C.
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