A drug that is highly effective in treating many types of infection can, at present, be obtained only from the bark of the ibora, a tree that is quite rare in the wild. It takes the bark of 5,000 trees to make one kilogram of the drug. It follows, therefore, that continued production of the drug must inevitably lead to the ibora’s extinction.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?
(A) The drug made from ibora bark is dispensed to doctors from a central authority.
(B) The drug made from ibora bark is expensive to produce.
(C) The leaves of the ibora are used in a number of medical products.
(D) The ibora can be propagated from cuttings and grown under cultivation.
(E) The ibora generally grows in largely inaccessible places.
原文:一种包治百病的药只能从i树的树皮中提取,这种树在野外(in the wild,注意仅限于野外)很少,而且做一公斤这种药需要5000棵i树的树皮,题目要求你削弱的结论:持续的这种药物的生产将不可避免地导致i树的灭绝
a,b,c属弱智干扰项,排掉。
我选的D: i树可以通过插枝插条人工培育来繁衍,那么虽然野外很少,你用的在多都可以人工繁殖,就不会绝种呀 标准答案E说的是:i树Generally长在Largely无法进入的区域,而largely这个词还是留有余地的阿:For the most part; mainly,既然那种药这么神奇,那我真要砍那几棵破树还砍不到吗?? |