(9) Nature's Way, a chain of stores selling health food and other health-related products, is opening its next franchise in the town of Plainsville. The store should prove to be very successful: Nature's Way franchises tend to be most profitable in areas where residents lead healthy lives, and clearly Plainsville is such an area. Plainsville merchants report that sales of running shoes and exercise clothing are at all-time highs. The local health club has more members than ever, and the weight training and aerobics classes are always full. Finally, Plainsville's schoolchildren represent a new generation of potential customers: these schoolchildren are required to participate in a fitness-for-life program, which emphasizes the benefits of regular exercise at an early age.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
根据前面ETS官方陈述的解读,我们先做第一步:区分证据结论。
很明显,本题的最终结论是:“The store should prove to be very successful.”。
搞明白结论的位置之后,接下来我们一句一句分析:
第一句话:“Nature's Way, a chain of stores selling health food and other health-related products, is opening its next franchise in the town of Plainsville.”很明显,是对全文内容的一个背景介绍。
第二句话,冒号前面的前半句作为最终结论,自然后半句是用来支持最终结论的。作者指出“clearly Plainsville is such an area”意思就是说,作者之所以认为Nature's Way会在Plainsville成功,是因为这个地方的人生活很健康。由此可以得出如下推导: