LSAT-12-4-10

10. Lydia: Each year, thousands of seabirds are injured when they become entangled in equipment owned by fishing companies. Therefore, the fishing companies should assume responsibility for funding veterinary treatment for the injured birds.

Jonathan: Your feelings for the birds are admirable. Your proposal, however, should not be adopted because treatment of the most seriously injured birds would inhumanely prolong the lives of animals no longer able to live in the wild, as all wildlife should.

Jonathan uses which one of the following techniques in his response to Lydia?

(A) He directs a personal attack against her rather than addressing the argument she advances.

(B) He suggests that her proposal is based on self-interest rather than on real sympathy for the injured birds.

(C) He questions the appropriateness of interfering with wildlife in any way, even if the goal of the interference is to help.

(D) He attempts to discredit her proposal by discussing its implications for only those birds that it serves least well.

(E) He evades discussion of her proposal by raising the issue of whether her feelings about the birds are justified.

答案：D，我选了C

以下是Mindfree对C不对的解释：

You need to understand the passage, instead of using your own reasoning. J never question the interference with wildlife. From his argument you can see that his point is that treated bird will not live in the wild any more and thus the treatment is inhumane. In another word, if the treatment can make the birds live in the wild, it might be humane and adopted. So interference is not the problem here.

哪位可以把D的意思翻译一下？D到底在说什么呢？

C错在J只是怀疑L的建议对那些即使是治疗后仍无法在野外生存的动物是否合适，并没怀疑整个作法。

D的意思为：他通过讨论该建议对那些无法治得很好的鸟类的后果来否定该建议。正好是J所用的方法