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 members
of 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 support
of that denial
E. assumes that changes that benefit the most able members of a group
necessarily benefit all members of that group.
这题我选C，对答案A很不解。
问题问的是Pat’s response to Mel is inadequate in that it
C说的是P为了论证此种政策改变的积极作用，仅仅指出这种政策变化没有消极影响。
换言之
的推导模式是：change没有消极影响——即change有积极影响,这里就有个推理的陷阱！
所以选项C正好指出了P’s response inadequate
关于A看了很多讨论，觉得A的推导并不能指出inadequate，如果根据A的推理，从对现有人员的影响推出对将来人员的影响，是合理的推理过程，没有不充足的地方。
