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One proposal for preserving

rain forests is to

promote the adoption of new agricultural technolo-

(5) gies, such as improved

plant varieties and use of

chemical herbicides, which

would increase productivity

and slow deforestation by

(10) reducing demand for new

cropland. Studies have

shown that farmers in

developing countries who

have achieved certain levels

(15) of education, wealth, and

security of land tenure are

more likely to adopt such

technologies. But these

studies have focused on

(20) villages with limited land

that are tied to a market

economy rather than on

the relatively isolated, selfsufficient

communities with

(25) ample land characteristic of

rain-forest regions. A recent

study of the Tawahka people

of the Honduran rain forest

found that farmers with some

(30) formal education were more

likely to adopt improved plant

varieties but less likely to

use chemical herbicides

and that those who spoke

(35) Spanish (the language of

the market economy) were

more likely to adopt both

technologies. Nonland

wealth was also associated

(40) with more adoption of both

technologies, but availability

of uncultivated land reduced

the incentive to employ the

productivity-enhancing tech-

(45) nologies. Researchers

also measured land-tenure

security: in Tawahka

society, kinship ties are a

more important indicator of

(50) this than are legal property

rights, so researchers

measured it by a household’s

duration of residence

in its village. They found

(55) that longer residence correlated

with more adoption

of improved plant varieties

but less adoption of

chemical herbicides.

Q12:

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The passage suggests that in the study mentioned in line 27 the method for gathering information about security of land tenure reflects which of the following pairs of assumptions about Tawahka society?

A. The security of a household’s land tenure depends on the strength of that

household’s kinship ties, and the duration of a household’s residence in its village

is an indication of the strength of that household’s kinship ties.

B. The ample availability of land makes security of land tenure unimportant, and the

lack of a need for secure land tenure has made the concept of legal property rights

unnecessary.

C. The strength of a household’s kinship ties is a more reliable indicator of that

household’s receptivity to new agricultural technologies than is its quantity of

nonland wealth, and the duration of a household’s residence in its village is a

more reliable indicator of that household’s security of land tenure than is the

strength of its kinship ties.

D. Security of land tenure based on kinship ties tends to make farmers more

receptive to the use of improved plant varieties, and security of land tenure based

on long duration of residence in a village tends to make farmers more receptive to

the use of chemical herbicides.

E. A household is more likely to be receptive to the concept of land tenure based on

legal property rights if it has easy access to uncultivated land, and a household is

more likely to uphold the tradition of land tenure based on kinship ties if it

possesses a significant degree of nonland wealth.

Answer:

答案是Ｅ，但是我选Ｂ

从最后第二句（蓝色部分）看出：kinship ties －－＞ indicator of land-tenure

我不敢相信自己的眼睛, MM的答案是不是错了 ,

12题, GWD的答案是A呀, 没错亚.

B 是无关信息, E是无关比较级

A. The security of a household’s land tenure depends on the strength of that

household’s kinship ties, and the duration of a household’s residence in its village

is an indication of the strength of that household’s kinship ties.

[12]Researchers  

also measured land-tenure

security: in Tawahka

society, kinship ties are a

more important indicator of

(50) this than are legal property

rights, so researchers

measured it by a household’s

duration of residence         

in its village.

society, kinship ties are a
        
    

more important indicator of
        
    

(50) this than are
                    legal property
        
    

rights,
            so researchers
        
    

measured it by a household’s
        
    

duration of residence
        
    

in its village

题目是which of the following is an obstacle most likely to be faced by those wishing to promote rain-forest preservation by implementing the proposal mentioned in line 1?暗含有最佳答案

原文中 kinship ties are a more important indicator of this than are legal property rights。可见作者想强调的是kidship ties,而不是legal property rights.（A）

原文中availability of uncultivated land reduced the incentive to employ the productivity-enhancing technologies。作者正面强调的就是availability of uncultivated land（D）

所以A、D比较，D更好。