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.

参考答案是A，本人觉得C也并无不妥。

以前有过很多讨论，但还是没有定论，请教到底是A还是C？谢谢

SUPPORT A

I think C is point to a good aspect but the inadequate ones.It is a right

way to stand positive effect merely by pointing to the absence of negative

effect .There is nothing to blame.

In A,the mothod Pat used has it's flaw.In choice A ,it has been pointed out

very clear and at a right way.

哦，偶好像明白鸟。。。斑竹的意思是不是那个"inadequate"才是题目真正的用意？C并没有道出Pat讲的话有什么不足够的地方，只有A清楚道明了P用现在的性质来推断未来的潜在性质这个point，偶的理解对吗？