LSAT-5-4-20

20.   olitician: Homelessness is a serious social problem, but further government spending to provide low-income housing is not the cure for homelessness. The most cursory glance at the real-estate section of any major newspaper is enough to show that there is no lack of housing units available to rent. So the frequent claim that people are homeless because of a lack of available housing is wrong.

That homelessness is a serious social problem figures in the argument in which one of the following ways?

(A) It suggests an alternative prospective to the one adopted in the argument.

(B) It sets out a problem the argument is designed to resolve.

(C) It is compatible either with accepting the conclusion or with denying it.

(D) It summarizes a position the argument as a whole is directed toward discrediting.（C）

(E) It is required in order to establish the conclusion.

C的选项是说它既没有肯定结论也没有否定结论吗? A是什么意思?一看到这种题就觉得很难理解选项里的抽象词.

“homelessness is a serious social problem ”是题中承认的，而题中焦点是说“government spending to provide low-income housing is not the cure for homelessness" 并且证明之。

因此选C

“That homelessness is a serious social problem”， 不管无家可归的人多不多，后果严重不严重，都不会对结论“So the frequent claim that people are homeless because of a lack of available housing is wrong.”造成影响。

所以选C。