3. GWD25-Q3.

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.

答案选A 我选了C 题目应该是削弱吧? 在百度上也没能搜到解答,请NN指教~~~~

 Mel:attract the best candidates to the job由两方面决定，工资和演讲费，虽然工资增加了，可不能获得演讲费了，所以吸引力没有提高。

Pat:因为只有少数人获得演讲费，涨工资还是可以改善条件的。

作为一个candidate，会把获得的最大报酬的可能性都考虑到，即工资和演讲费之和才是吸引力之和；而pat只是说现状如何如何，这是inadequate的，如果candidate更愿意演讲呢？又比如，过去和现在的股票走势能充分证明未来的趋势么？

C本身就是一个错误。两个因素A（工资）和B（演讲费），如果A是正向的，B不存在负向，当然从总体来说就是正向的了。

总的来说pat在横向比较上来说是没有什么错的，错在了纵向没有考虑到未来的不确定性。已经发生的都是必然，没有发生的都是偶然。

 potential members 指希望被吸引来的candidate， current members指目前不在意赚外快的judges

所以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