GMAT 邏輯考題
In 1992 outlaw fishing boats began illegally harvesting lobsters from the
territorial waters of the country of Belukia. Soon after, the annual tonnage
of lobster legally harvested in Belukian waters began declining; in 1996,
despite there being no reduction in the level of legal lobster fishing
activity, the local catch was 9,000 tons below pre-1992 levels. It is
therefore highly likely that the outlaw fishing boats harvested about 9,000
tons of lobster illegally that year.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
其中一選項:
The illegal lobster harvesting was not so extensive that the population of
catchable lobsters in Belukia's territorial waters had sharply declined by
1996.
未免涉及背景理解,我把題目也貼上來,
不過我的問題單純在於上面選項這句話我看不懂,想要針對這個句子,請教前輩們該怎麼
理解才對,謝謝。
我自己看這個句子是覺得時態很怪:一件事提及程度、但卻是造成另一件「過去事情」的
發生?另一問題是覺得句子的因果也兜不太攏。
粗糙的直譯的意思是:非法漁船之前的龍蝦捕獲量不是那麼大,以至於1996年在B海域的龍
蝦產量大減。(?)
既然非法漁船漁獲量不大、為何會造成可捕到的數量大減呢?
想請教前輩不知道這句話是怎麼想岔了、是否句意上理解有誤,或有甚麼邏輯沒有釐清。
PS 此選項正好為正解。