题目

Installing scrubbers in smokestacks and switching to cleaner-burning fuel are the two methods available to Northern Power for reducing harmful emissions from its plants. Scrubbers will reduce harmful emissions more than cleaner-burning fuels will. Therefore, by installing scrubbers, Northern Power will be doing the most that can be done to reduce harmful emissions from its plants.


Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

选项

A.

Switching to cleaner-burning fuel will not be more expensive than installing scrubbers.

B.

Northern Power can choose from among various kinds of scrubbers, some of which are more effective than others.

C.

Northern Power is not necessarily committed to reducing harmful emissions from its plants.

D.

Harmful emissions from Northern Power’s plants cannot be reduced more by using both methods together than by the installation of scrubbers alone.

E.

Aside from harmful emissions from the smokestacks of its plants, the activities of Northern Power do not cause significant air pollution.


解析

在烟囱中安装洗涤器和改用更清洁的燃料是北方电力公司用于减少其工厂有害排放的两种方法。洗涤器将比更清洁的燃料更能减少有害排放。因此,通过安装洗涤器,北方电力公司将为减少其工厂的有害排放尽最大努力。 - **论点**:安装洗涤器能让北方电力公司为减少其工厂有害排放做到极致。 - **论据**:安装洗涤器比使用更清洁的燃料能更多地减少有害排放。 - **正确答案方向**:正确答案应是一个假设,即填补论据和论点之间的逻辑漏洞,确保仅通过安装洗涤器就能达到最大程度减少有害排放的效果,而不存在其他可能使排放减少更多的情况。 - **A选项**:改用更清洁的燃料不会比安装洗涤器更昂贵。成本问题与能否最大程度减少有害排放这一论点无关,不能作为假设,排除。 - **B选项**:北方电力公司可以从各种洗涤器中进行选择,其中一些比其他的更有效。即便存在不同效果的洗涤器,也不能说明安装洗涤器就能做到最大程度减少排放,重点不是洗涤器内部的比较,而是安装洗涤器与其他减排方式结合等的比较,排除。 - **C选项**:北方电力公司不一定致力于减少其工厂的有害排放。公司的态度与安装洗涤器是否能最大程度减少排放没有直接关联,排除。 - **D选项**:通过同时使用这两种方法不会比仅安装洗涤器更能减少北方电力公司工厂的有害排放。该选项排除了同时使用两种方法会比单独安装洗涤器减少更多排放的可能性,使得安装洗涤器确实能做到最大程度减排这一论点得以成立,是必要的假设,当选。 - **E选项**:除了其工厂烟囱的有害排放外,北方电力公司的活动不会造成严重的空气污染。公司其他活动造成的污染与通过安装洗涤器减少工厂有害排放这一话题无关,排除。 综上所述,正确答案是D选项。
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