Could anyone explain why D rather than C is correct?
P: (1) most of the new shows produced last year by WW were canceled;
(2) this year's new shows are all police dramas, and few police dramas have been popular in recent years
C: most of this year's new shows will be canceled
To strengthen, we want to make last year and this year more similar. So it is better to find sth like last year's police dramas were cancelled.
C: police drama --> cancelled
cancelled --> police drama
I feel both C and D could fulfill the gap.
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P1 Last season W&W produced a number of new tv programs. Of those new programs most (let’s say 51%) of them were canceled. P2 Those that were canceled were canceled because of insufficient viewership. P3 This season W&W are producing new shows as well. All of this season’s new shows are police dramas. P4 In recent years, most police dramas are not popular (i.e experience low/insufficient viewership). CONCLUSION: Of the new programs produced this season most will be canceled.
This argument seems not that bad to begin with but a way to strengthen it would be to introduce information that would add to the similarity of circumstance between last season and this season.
(D) says that all the shows that were canceled last season were police dramas (hey just like they are trying to do again this year). This would strengthen a notion that the same thing is “likely” to happen – especially knowing about the poor viewership of police dramas.
(C) Has a problem in that all it says is : If a show was not canceled then it was not a police drama. It does not say that police dramas WERE canceled. Using the info in the stim we are trying to connect police dramas and cancellation. Whatever is not cancelled is irrelevant.
This is how I see this question. Hopefully it helped.
Just a FYI to future people looking through this thread.