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astronautking

3. GWD25-Q3.

Mel: The official salary for judges has always been too low to attract the best candidates to the job. The legislature’s move to raise the salary has done nothing to improve the situation, because it was coupled with a ban on receiving money for lectures and teaching engagements.

Pat:No, the raise in salary really does improve the situation. Since very few judges teach or give lectures, the ban will have little or no negative effect.

Pat’s response to Mel is inadequate in that it

A.attempts to assess how a certain change will affect potential membersof a group by providing evidence about its effect on the current members.

B.mistakenly takes the cause of a certain change to be an effect of that change

C.attempts to argue that a certain change will have a positive effect merely by pointing to the absence of negative effects

D.simply denies Mel’s claim without putting forward any evidence in supportof that denial

E.assumes that changes that benefit the most able members of a groupnecessarily benefit all members of that group.

cdwayne

(D) ? 原來M說立委想要藉由teaching來提高薪水被限制，P誤以為參與teaching被限制。

sdcar2010

It's A.

Since the goal is "to attract the best candidates to the job," what if these best and brightest candidates want to teach and give lectures? P's response missed the above point by focusing on CURRENT judges, not POTENTIAL top candidates. Thus, P's response is flawed.

BTW, this is an LSAT question.

cdwayne

謝謝樓上，我還沒做到這題呢