A drug that is highly effective in treating many types of infection can, at present, be obtained only from the bark of the ibora, a tree that is quite rare in the wild. It takes the bark of 5,000 trees to make one kilogram of the drug. It follows, therefore, that continued production of the drug must inevitably lead to the ibora's extinction.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?
A drug that is highly effective in treating many types of infection can, at present, be obtained only from the bark of the ibora, a tree that is quite rare in the wild. It takes the bark of 5,000 trees to make one kilogram of the drug. It follows, therefore, that continued production of the drug must inevitably lead to the ibora’s extinction. Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?
(A) The drug made from ibora bark is dispensed to doctors from a central authority.
(B) The drug made from ibora bark is expensive to produce.
(C) The leaves of the ibora are used in a number of medical products.
(D) The ibora can be propagated from cuttings and grown under cultivation.
(E) The ibora generally grows in largely inaccessible places.
premise1: A drug that is highly effective in treating many types of infection can, at present, be obtained only from the bark of the ibora, a tree that is quite rare in the wild
premise2: It takes the bark of 5,000 trees to make one kilogram of the drug.
conclusion: continued production of the drug must inevitably lead to the ibora’s extinction.
不确定我想的对不对,我的理解是 continued production of the drug must inevitably 导致了----> the ibora’s extinction.
题目让我们去weaken,那么c选项中说道:这树叶能用于多种药物,那么对于这种叶子就会有需求,所以对这些medicine的production同样会导致这个ibora‘s extinction
这个和原文中的continued production of the drug好像没有什么本质的区别,这个并没有起到weaken的作用
个人理解