弱弱地问一个boldface的题

liuqiangde

205. Consumer advocate:

it is generally true, at least in this state, that lawyers who advertise a specific service charge less for that service than lawyers who do not advertise.

 

It is also true that each time restrictions on the advertising of legal services have been eliminated, the number of lawyers advertising their services has increased and legal costs to consumers have declined in consequence.
                

 

However, eliminating the state requirement that legal advertisements must specify fees for specific services would almost certainly increase rather than further reduce consumer’s legal costs.

 

Lawyers would no longer have an incentive to lower their fees when they begin advertising and if no longer required to specify fee arrangements, many lawyers who now advertise would increase their fees.

 

In the consumer advocate’s argument, the two portions in
        boldface
            play which of the following
        roles?

 

(A) The first is a generalization that the consumer advocate accepts as true; the second is presented as a consequence that follows from the truth of that generalization.

(B) The first is a pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate argues will be repeated in the case at issue; the second acknowledges a circumstance in which that pattern would not hold.

(C) The first is pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate predicts will not hold in the case at issue; the second offers a consideration in support of that prediction.

(D) The first is evidence that the consumer advocate offers in support of a certain prediction; the second is that prediction.
        

(E) The first acknowledges a consideration that weighs against the main position that the consumer advocate defends; the second is that position.

 

205.

In the passage, the conclusion advocate argues for a certain position:

….eliminating the state requirement that legal advertisements must specify fees for specific

services would almost certainly increase rather than further reduce consumers’ legal costs.

 

What follows the statement is preceded by two concessions that, the advocate admits, tend to point in the opposite direction; what follows the statement of the position are the reasons the advocate has for holding that position. To answer the question, you must find the choice that correctly describes the roles played by both of the portions that are in boldface.

 

Choice C is the correct answer. The first boldface portion does present a pattern of cause and effect, and the advocate’s prediction is that his time the pattern will be different. In addition, the second boldface portion is one of the considerations that the advocate uses in support of that prediction.

题还能明白，但解释看不明白，那位nn帮忙翻译以下这个解释。谢谢。

Mayanist

注意第一个黑体后面的However，且看清其引出了一个预测

shelia006

sure, choice A is the  best. according to the analysis offered by OG creator,  the first is a generalization,the last is a consequence.