TEST-04-LR-02-

The journalistic practice of fabricating remarks after an interview and printing them within quotation marks, as if they were the interviewee's own words, has been decried as a form of unfair.

Misrepresentation. However, people's actual spoken remarks rarely convey their ideas as clearly as does a distillation of those ideas crafted, after an interview, by a skilled writer. Therefore, since this practice avoids the more serious misrepresentation that would occur if people's exact words were quoted but their defensible.

Which one of the following is a questionable technique used in the argument?

(A) answering an exaggerated charge by undermining the personal authority of those who made that charge .

(B) claiming that the prestige of a profession provides ample grounds for dismissing criticisms of that profession.

(C) Offering as an adequate defense of a practice an observation that discredits only one of several possible alternatives to that practice.

(D) concluding that a practice is right on the grounds that it is necessary.

(E) using the opponent's admission that a practice is sometimes appropriate as conclusive proof that that practice is never inappropriate.

The key is C. I don't get it. I chose D, I think the second paragraph tries to say that practice of fabricate remarks is necessary, if it is not being used, things would even get worse, therefore, I chose D.

之于D，文中不是necessary的问题；即便往D选项这个方向想，题目陈述的是which practice is more clearly的问题，见

However, people's actual spoken remarks rarely convey their ideas as clearly as does a distillation of those ideas crafted, after an interview, by a skilled writer.

这个不是questionable的地方，所以D是不对的。