JUPEBUse of EnglishLogical Reasoning

Read the passage and answer the question. 'The council chairman argued that the market should be relocated because traders block the highway every morning. However, the traders pointed out that the blockage began only after the council stopped clearing the drainage beside the road.' The traders' response is best described as

Aan agreement that the market should be relocated.
Ban attempt to shift attention to a different cause of the problem.CORRECT
Ca refusal to discuss the relocation at all.
Dan admission that they are responsible for the blockage.
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Why the answer is B, and why the others tempt you.
The traders do not deny that the road is blocked; instead they attribute the blockage to the council's failure to clear the drainage, which redirects responsibility away from themselves. They neither accept the blame nor agree to relocation, and they clearly engage with the issue rather than refusing to discuss it.
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