A group of children of various ages was read stories in which people caused harm, some of those people doing so intentionally, and some accidentally. When asked about appropriate punishments for those who had caused harm, the younger children, unlike the older ones, assigned punishments that did not vary according to whether the harm was done intentionally or accidentally. Younger children, then, do not regard people’s intentions as relevant to punishment.

Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion above?

(A) In interpreting these stories, the listeners had to draw on a relatively mature sense of human psychology in order to tell whether harm was produced intentionally or accidentally.

(B) In these stories, the severity of the harm produced was clearly stated.

(C) Younger children are as likely to produce harm unintentionally as are older children.

(D) The older children assigned punishment in a way that closely resembled the way adults had assigned punishment in a similar experiment.

(E) The younger children assigned punishments that varied according to the severity of the harm done by the agents in the stories.

1、请NN帮忙分析一下题干各句话之间的内在逻辑关系，我读完题之后通常很模糊，急死了

2、答案为A，我想问E为何不对，他说年幼的孩子能根据形成危害的严重程度分配惩罚，这不是与原文结论相反吗，为什么解释却说次选项是在支持结论呢？

个人意见，可以将B/E结合起来看，它们都属于它因加强，如下：

(B) In these stories, the severity of the harm produced was clearly stated.

—>伤害的严重性已经清楚地表现出来，有可能使得孩子们对他们的判罚加以区别，但孩子们都没有区别其判罚，它因加强

(E) The younger children assigned punishments that varied according to the

severity of the harm done by the agents in the stories. —>说明孩子们会根据

伤害度的不同而区别其判罚，因此对于目的性的不同而区别判罚的可能性也存在，属它因加强

而A

(A) In interpreting these stories, the listeners had to draw on a relatively

mature sense of human psychology in order to tell whether harm was produced

intentionally or accidentally. —>说明小孩子是因为太小不能判断，而不是不这么

认为，它因解释前提，反对结论

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