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ztlbox

Question 10:

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

这道题，网上倾向性的意见是e是答案，但我有不同意见：

环境学家并没有否认雪上汽车给居民带来了好处,他只是说I disagree:  A great many cross-country skiers are now kept from visiting Milville by the noise and pollution that snowmobiles generate.

也就是说 the spokesperson presents as haveing benefited a certain group of people actually benefited those people 是可能的，至少在文中没有否认它的证据。

我选a，

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.

spokesperson辩解的理由是血上汽车给居民带来效益，所以他们必须忍受污染。

言下之意就是假设要想经济上得利，没别的办法，只有忍受污染。

而环境学家恰恰反驳了这一点，指出有很多滑雪者因为污染不来了，那么没了污染，滑雪者同样会给居民带来效益。a正是指出了这一点。

kkgmat

A is wrong because no such assumption is mentioned in the arguement.

ztlbox

assumption 是暗含在文章中的，文中不会明确提到，而a中的假设是speakman 成立的假设，而环境学家正是指出了这个假设是不存在的

lawyer_1

1。A的错误在于ONLY太STRONG。“所以他们必须忍受污染”。spokesperson的话中看不出“必须”的意思。DICTATE是指HAVE CONTROLLING INFLUENCE ON。DETERMINE。并没有MUST的意思。何况one set of circumstances在原文难以找到对应。

2。spokesperson说Snowmobiling带来很多人。环境学家说污染让很多人不敢来。环境学家的目的很显然是否定Snowmobiling带来很多人。从而否定给当地居民带来经济利益。即否定这个效果。所以E是合适的

tempture

B.        Challenging an assumption that certain desirable outcome is outweighed by negative aspects associated with producing that outcome

这个选项我读不懂，哪位NN帮忙翻译一下

tempture

我明白了。我给搞反了

古镯

C为什么不对呢？

请nn指教！

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-1-25 12:13:14编辑过]

dougj

应该选B !!!

         Challenging an assumption thatcertain desirable outcome is outweighed by negative

aspectsassociated 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。

babypace

I choose E. I think B is saying the oposite.
Let's look at what the "assumption" is.
assumption: the negative outcome associated with producing the dedirable outcome can be overweighted.
What B says that the "assumption" is that "the negative outcome overweight the desirable outcome".
Compare the above, B distorts the "assumption" by fliping it around.

jones79

以下是引用lawyer_1在2004-10-10 10:48:00的发言：

1。A的错误在于ONLY太STRONG。“所以他们必须忍受污染”。spokesperson的话中看不出“必须”的意思。DICTATE是指HAVE CONTROLLING INFLUENCE ON。DETERMINE。并没有MUST的意思。何况one set of circumstances在原文难以找到对应。

2。spokesperson说Snowmobiling带来很多人。环境学家说污染让很多人不敢来。环境学家的目的很显然是否定Snowmobiling带来很多人。从而否定给当地居民带来经济利益。即否定这个效果。所以E是合适的

请问"only one set of circumstance"是什么意思??