lsat-2-2-15

15. A well-known sports figure found that combining publicity tours with playing tours led to problems, so she stopped combining the two. She no longer allows bookstore appearances and playing in competition to occur in the same city within the same trip. This week she is traveling to London to play in a major competition, so during her stay in London she will not be making any publicity appearances at any bookstore in London.

Which one of the following most closely parallels the reasoning used in the passage?

(A) Wherever there is an Acme Bugkiller, many wasps are killed. The Z family garden has an Acme Bugkiller, so any wasps remaining in the garden will soon be killed.

(B) The only times that the hospital’s emergency room staff attends to relatively less serious emergencies are times when there is no critical emergency to attend to. On Monday night the emergency room staff attended to a series of fairly minor emergencies, so there must not have been any critical emergencies to take care of at the time.

(C) Tomato plants require hot summers to thrive. Farms in the cool summers of country Y probably do not have thriving tomato plants.

(D) Higher grades lead to better job opportunities, and studying leads to higher grades. Therefore, studying will lead to better job opportunities.

(E) Butter knives are not sharp. Q was not murdered with a sharp blade, so suspect X’s butter knife may have been the murder weapon.

我选的是a，但正确的是b。请说明原文的推理，以及题干的相似点。

题干的推理方法是从一般到个别。即A为真，B属于A，则B为真。

选项A和B的推理方法看似都是从一般到个别。但在选项A中，只说KILL MANY，没说KILL ALL，所以，结论中ANY REMAINNING WASPS WILL BE KILLED，其实是无法从前提上推导出来的，即实际上它不属于从一般到个别的推导方法。

不知道说清了没。一回答问题就觉得自己很菜。还好，刚开始复习，还有时间。