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In casual conversation, people experience little psychological discomfort in admitting that they have some particular character flaw, but only if they consider trivial the flaw to which they admit. Therefore, if in a casual conversation an individual readily admits that he or she has some particular character flaw, the individual must not consider that flaw to be serious.
Which one of the following is an assumption necessary to the argument?
(A) Most character flaws are considered trivial by those who have them.
(B) People admit to having only those character flaws that most other people consider trivial.
(C) In casual conversation, people admit to having character flaws only when they must.
(D) In casual conversation, people admit to having a character flaw only when that admission causes them little psychological discomfort.
(E) In casual conversation, people do not speak of things that would give others an unfavorable impression of their character.
这道题作对了，但看真题祥解（官方解释）时却看不懂了，请高人帮我理理思路。
D. Correct. Suppose people sometimes readily admit to having a character flaw even when doing so causes them psychological discomfort (i.e., that [D] is false).
In that case, from the first sentence of the passage it follows that people sometimes readily admit even to character flaws they do not consider trivial.
That is, if (D) is false, then a person's admitting to a certain character flaw would not show that the person considered that flaw to be trivial; in short, the argument's conclusion would not follow. Thus (D) is the best answer.
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