22. The trustees of the Avonbridge summer drama workshop have decided to offer scholarships to the top 10 percent of local applicants and the top 10 percent of nonlocal applicants as judged on the basis of a qualifying audition. They are doing this to ensure that only the applicants with the most highly evaluated auditions are offered scholarships to the program.
Which one of the following points out why the trustees' plan might not be effective in achieving its goal?
(A) The best actors can also apply for admission to another program and then not enroll in the Avonbridge program
(B) Audition materials that produce good results for one actor may disadvantage another, resulting in inaccurate assessment
(C) The top 10 percent of local and nonlocal applicants might not need scholarships to the Avonbridge program
(D) Some of the applicants who are offered scholarships could have less highly evaluated auditions than some of the applicants who are not offered scholarships
(E) Dividing applicants into local and nonlocal groups is unfair because it favors nonlocal applicants
参考答案:D
疑惑:
选B, 我觉得D不一定削若,因为 local applicants 和 non-local applicants 的人数/drama水平可能相差很大;极端假设有1000个local applicants, 100个non-local applicants, 这100个non-local appliants的individual drama level, 都可以进入top 50 of 1000 local applicants.... 这样D 就不足为奇了
B确实是个ATTRACTIVE的答案,但错了,如果你明白计划的目标是什麽的话。计划的目标是只有 the applicants with the most highly evaluated auditions 能得奖学金。这些人是most highly evaluated auditions ,即面试时评价最高的,不是实际水平最高的。D对的原因是该计划将面试者分两类,LOCAL/NONLOCAL。每类的前10%得奖学金,这样就存在其中一类有人面试时表现好于另一类的10%内,但在本类中排名是10%之外而得不到奖学金。而实际他比另一类的10%内的人表现好。所以存在D所说的有奖学金的比没奖学金的面试差的情况。