LSAT-13-1-26【evaluation of critics】

26. Science Academy study: It has been demonstrated that with natural methods, some well-managed farms are able to reduce the amounts of synthetic fertilizer and pesticide and also of antibiotics they use without necessarily decreasing yields; in some cases yields can be increased.

Critics: Not so. The farms the academy selected to study were the ones that seemed most likely to be successful in using natural methods. What about the farmers who have tried such methods and failed?

Which one of the following is the most adequate evaluation of the logical force of the critics’

response?

(A) Success and failure in farming are rarely due only to luck, because farming is the management of chance occurrences.

(B) The critics show the result of the study would have been different if twice as many farms had been studied.

(C) The critics assume without justification that the failures were not due to soil quality.

(D) The critics demonstrate that natural methods are not suitable for the majority of framers.

(E) The issue is only to show that something is possible, so it is not relevant whether the instances studied were representative.

the key's e. but why not Aor C?我觉得a就加强了critics，c就削弱了critics。

A introduces "luck", C introduces "soil quality", both are out-of-scope.

The question asks for "evaluation of the logical force of the critics’ response?".  In other words, it ask you to analyze the critics' line of reasoning.  It's neither a strengthening nor a weakening question.  E correctly describes the critics' line ofreasoning, therefore is the best answer.

哎，为什么我用Netscape post总会有空格丢失？什么时候我们的ＣＤ可以支持Netscape?

O.K.  I'm fed up with the Netscape space problem.  Now I'm experimenting something else.  I downloaded MyIE2, which also supports tabbed browsing -- something I can't live without.  I'm trying to type a long message to see whether I still have the space problem or not.  O.K.  Here we go.    "Long long ago, there was a king.  He belived that he was the smartest person in the world..."  Well, this should be long enough.  Let's post it to see ...

Well, it seems to have worked.  O.K.  Will try to use MyIE2 for a while to see.

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