例1. Scientists now believe that artificial-hip implants, previously thought
to be safe, may actually increase the risk of cancer in recipients
after about 45 years of use. Though these implants do improve the quality
of recipient’s lives, the increased risk of cancer is an unacceptable price
to pay for these improvements. Therefore, they should be banned.
Which of the following, if true, is the strongest counterargument to the
argument above?
(A) Artificial-hip implant surgery can cause severe complications, such as
infection, chronic fever, and bone degeneration, and these complications
can themselves be crippling or even fatal.
(B) Almost all artificial-hip implant recipients receive their implants at
an age when they are unlikely to live more than an additional 30 years.
(C) Although artificial-hip implants increase the risk of cancer after about
45 year of use, a few of the cancers they induce are not fatal.
(D) Since artificial-hip implants are not very common, banning them would
cause little hardship.
(E) Although the benefits of artificial-hip implant surgery have remained
substantially the same over the past decade, the price of the surgery
has risen considerably.
ans : C
我覺得是 B耶 ...
題意: 科學家之前認為人工屁屁是安全的，但現在發現會增加接受者得到癌症的風險
當它們使用超過45年，雖然人工屁改善了接受者的quality of life，得癌症的代價
卻是不能接受的，所以移植人工屁要被banned。
問 counterargument
B. 移植人工屁的人很難再活大於30yrs==> weaken argument。
C. a few of the cancers they induce are not fatal = many of the carers they
induce are fatal ==> support.
Therefore, I think the answer is B 。
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