Environmentalist: The use of snowmobiles in the vast park north of Milville creates
unacceptable levels of air pollution and should be banned.
Milville business spokesperson: Snowmobiling brings many out-of-towners to
Milville in winter months, to the great financial benefit of many local residents. So,
economics dictate that we put up with the pollution.
Environmentalist: I disagree: A great many cross-country skiers are now kept
from visiting Milville by the noise and pollution that snowmobiles generate.
Environmentalist responds to the business spokesperson by doing which of the following?
A. Challenging an assumption that certain desirable outcome can derive from only
one set of circumstances
B. Challenging an assumption that certain desirable outcome is outweighed by negative
aspects associated with producing that outcome
C. Maintaining that the benefit that the spokesperson desires could be achieved
in greater degree by a different means
D. Claiming that the spokesperson is deliberately misrepresenting the environmentalist’s
position in order to be better able to attack it
E. Denying that an effect that the spokesperson presents as having benefited a certain
group of people actually benefited those people
网上答案选E,但据我看应该选B:
Challenging an assumption thatcertain desirable outcome is outweighed by negative
aspects associated with producing that outcome
环境学家们并没有否认雪上汽车会吸引来很多-many-游客从而给当地居民带来经济利益,
但他们指出“a great many"-非常多,比前面的many多--的滑雪爱好者因为雪上汽车带来的问题现在不来了。
因此,他们指出前面的收入很可能会被随之而产生的负效应---后者而抵消甚至盖过。
E的错误在于环境学家们并未直接反对雪上汽车会actually吸引客人过来。 |