aimkp wrote:
31. Pedro: Unlike cloth diapers, disposable diapers are a threat to the environment. Sixteen billion disposable diapers are discarded annually, filling up landfills at an alarming rate. So people must stop buying disposable diapers and use cloth diapers.
Maria: But you forget that cloth diapers must be washed in hot water, which requires energy. Moreover, the resulting wastewater pollutes our rivers. When families use diaper services, diaper must be delivered by fuel-burning trucks that pollute the air and add to traffic congestion.
Pedro - Disposable diaper threat to environment , since it is filling up landfills at an alarming rate.
Maria : Clot diaper produces more energy wastage as well as environmental pollution along with other problems.
Maria objects to Pedro's argument by Finding the point which Maria objects / bases her argument .
(A) claiming that Pedro overstates the negative evidence about disposable diapers in the course of his argument in favour of cloth diapers. Pedro fails to provide any negative evidence , he simply mentions that since Disposable diaper are filling up landfills at an alarming rate people must stop using it.
(B) indicating that Pedro draws a hasty conclusion, based on inadequate evidence about cloth diapers. Pedro's conclusion is indeed hasty , he fails to justify / explain the effects which might result in , lets keep this option.
(C) pointing out that there is an ambiguous use of the word "disposable" in Pedro's argument No Maria accepts disposable diapers and presents her point of view opposing use of cloth diapers as suggested by Pedro.
Maria mentions - "....must be washed in hot water.... " which suggests there isn't any ambiguity and she could comprehend unambiguously what Pedro wanted to convey.
(D) demonstrating that cloth diapers are a far more serious threat to the environment than disposable diapers are Maria highlights the environmental threat related to use of cloth diapers but she never drew any comparison with Cloth Diapers , hence out..
Had it not been the highlighted part , I would have genuinely chosen (D) as the answer.
(E) suggesting that the economic advantages of cloth diapers outweigh whatever environmental damage they may causeMaria neither compared nor did she convey something like this...
Hence IMO (B) is better than (D) , the most close option and I will go with (B)