R说S太老了，所以。。。。。
如果S是直接回答的话就应该是我不是很老，所以你的结论是错误的
原文中S的回答是把年龄和经验联系起来作为一个回应，所以他的回答是fails to

respond directly

 In my view, sims' refutation is not as subtle as you may think. On one

side he says that he doesn't want to talk about issues such as age in the

campaign, on the other side, however, he added immediately that he won't

comment on his competitor's youth and inexperience. Indeed his reply is

more contradictory than subtle.

The easiest way to crack down this kind of question is try to exclude one

by one the listed choices. For example, Sims doesn't make any judgement

about whether R's claim is correct, so A can be removed. He does mention

the issue of age, so the answer cannot be B; HE mentionned nothing about

which issues are important (C)nor did he say anything about the

contradictioriness of R's statement (D).

In fact, it is true that sims didn't respond directly. In his reply, he

indicated clearly that he didn't want to talk about the issue. That's why

choice E is the right answer.

hope it helps...

这道题我是这样想的：

R: too old --> can not address effectively...

如果 S 是 respond directly to R's claim 的话，

S 应该这样削弱R：too old --> neg(can not address effectively...) 即：too

old --> can address effectively...

而S没有这样，所以他没有respond directly to R's claim