. Jack: Are cashews ever sold in the shell?
Molly: No. The cashew doesn’t have a shell.
Jack: Don’t all nuts have shells?
Molly: Well, by a strictly botanical definition, all nuts do.
If the statements Molly gives in answer to Jack are accurate, which
of the following must be true on the basis of those statements?
A Botanically speaking, cashews are not nuts.
B Some fruits that botanists consider nuts do not have shells.
C Cashews have been specifically bred by botanists not to have
shells.
D If cashews had shells, all cashews would be sold in the shell.
E At some time in the past, either Molly or Jack has bought
cashews.
答案D
