题目选项分析

Passengers must exit airplanes swiftly after accidents, since gases released following accidents are toxic to humans and often explode soon after being released. In order to prevent passenger deaths from gas inhalation, safety officials recommend that passengers be provided with smoke hoods that prevent inhalation of the gases.

Which of the following, if true, constitutes the strongest reason to require implementation of the safety officials' recommendation?

【选项】Test evacuations showed that putting on the smoke hoods added considerably to the overall time it took passengers to leave the cabin