2 CRs

pgclt

20. One of the problems faced by goverment planners is the so-called NIMBY, or "Not in My Back Yard", Syndrome. For example, although poll after poll shows that the majority of citizens in this state favor the construction of new prisons, whenever plans are announced to construct a new prison somewhere in the state, residents of nearby communities protest and often succeed in blocking the project.

Which of the following also illustrages the NIMBY Syndrome described above?
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C) A minister who preaches that religious groups have an obligation to do charitable work but refuses to donate money to the Salvation Army.
D) An auto dealer who favors free trade with other countries as a means to a healthy United States economy but urges the goverment to restrict imports of foreign-made cars.

23. An inventor protects his rights by obtainning a patent; and to do this, he must exhibit a working model of the invention and demonstrate that the invention is original by showing that it represents a significant departure from other similar devices.  The law also protects industrial trade secrets such as the chemical formula for a soft drink, but businesses are not requried to register these secrets.  As a result, one business could find that it has inadvertently used the trade secret of another business and wind up on the lsoing end of a law suit.  It would be better for all if trade secrets were registered with a Trade Secrets Office, so that a business could regularly check to determine that it was not infringing upon another business's trade secrets.

The main weakness of the above argument is that it
a) relies upon a questionable analogy
b) reverses a cause-effect connection
c) generalizes on the basis of a single example
d) contains a logical contradiction
e) relies upon circular reasoning

tongxun

20、I choose D。
23、a

pgclt

Tongxun, your answers are right. but what's wrong with C in 20.  and can you explain your approach to 23?  the analogy "an inventor ..." and "a business ..." doesn't seem clear to me, and how to rule out other choices since they all look attractive. thanks!

tongxun

pgclt：为更清晰的表达，我就用中文了。
20、在题干中描述的那群人是这么个德性： 支持建监狱，又不想伤害自己的利益，伤害别人的利益他就支持。也就是 一群损人利己之徒。D中的制造商就是这德性。
  C：只能说此人是个吝啬鬼，他没有想损害别人的利益来保护自己的利益。
23、作者用a patent做例子，说明保护business's trade secrets.
其中要想使论述成立，必须两者要有可比性。