A study of high blood pressure treatments found that certain meditation techniques and the most commonly prescribed drugs are equally effective if the selected treatment is followed as directed over the long term. Half the patients given drugs soon stop taking them regularly, whereas eighty percent of the study's participants who were taught meditation techniques were still regularly using them five years later. Therefore, the meditation treatment is the one likely to produce the best results.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
A study of high blood pressure treatments found that certain meditation techniques and the most commonly prescribed drugs are equally effective if the selected treatment is followed as directed over the long term. Half the patients given drugs soon stop taking them regularly, whereas eighty percent of the study's participants who were taught meditation techniques were still regularly using them five years later. Therefore, the meditation treatment is the one likely to produce the best results. Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument? A.  eople who have high blood pressure are usually advised by their physicians to make changes in diet that have been found in many cases to reduce the severity of the condition. B. The participants in the study were selected in part on the basis of their willingness to use meditation techniques. C. Meditation techniques can reduce the blood pressure of people who do not suffer from high blood pressure. D. Some of the participants in the study whose high blood pressure was controlled through meditation techniques were physicians. E. Many people with dangerously high blood pressure are unaware of their condition.
题目很简单
A study of high blood pressure treatments found that certain meditation techniques and the most commonly prescribed drugs are equally effective if the selected treatment is followed as directed over the long term. Half the patients given drugs soon stop taking them regularly, whereas eighty percent of the study's participants who were taught meditation techniques were still regularly using them five years later. Therefore, the meditation treatment is the one likely to produce the best results.
读完题目两个隐含条件
第一. there is no other factor that would reduce the severity of high blood pressure for people who practice meditation (如果练习meditation 的人同时还吃素,那肯定会削弱meditation是最好的结论)
第二 哪一种方法用的时间越长,那么哪一种方法就更有效
Half the patients given drugs soon stop taking them regularly, whereas eighty percent of the study's participants who were taught meditation techniques were still regularly using them five years later. Therefore, the meditation treatment is the one likely to produce the best results. 可以看得出因为meditation 用的时间比吃药长,作者下结论说meditation 比吃药有效,从而变成最有效。
A不对的原因很简单就是out of scope 因为 People who have high blood pressure are usually advised by their physicians to make changes in diet that have been found in many cases to reduce the severity of the condition.
People who have high blood pressure 包括(只是吃药的,只是练习meditation,什么都没做的,两种都做得)在这种况下怎么削弱?除非说练习meditation的高血压病人的人还同时吃素,那么就可以削弱了,因为有他因