16. George Bernard Shaw wrote: “That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg is enough to make one despair of political humanity.”

Shaw’s statement would best serve as an illustration in an argument criticizing which of the following?

(A) Dentists who perform unnecessary dental work in order to earn a profit

(B) Doctors who increase their profits by specializing only in diseases that affect a large percentage of the population

(C) Grocers who raise the price of food in order to increase their profit margins

(D) Oil companies that decrease the price of their oil in order to increase their market share

(E) Bakers and surgeons who earn a profit by supplying other peoples’ basic needs

答案是A

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The whole passage confirms in our life if we want someone do something for us, we must pay them first. This is a normal logic.

A is on the opposite side. So A will be criticized if we use the illustration in this argument.

牙科医生为了赚钱，对牙做不必要的操作（A）。这是不好的，应该受批评。因为，一个国家，如果可以给面包师以利益让他为你做面包，就可以给医生以利益来切掉人的腿。这样的国家足以使人对政治道义失去信心。（原文对A起说明，证明的作用，即问题所要求的）