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 younger children assigned punishments that varied according to the severity of the harm done by the agents in the stories.
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选项B和E是对该结论的支持，起码不会反对该结论，所以容易被排除。选项C和D最容易干扰解题思路，因为他们都带有关键词，但是由于其论述对结论没有什么影响，相对于A而言也不是理想的答案。