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T-9-Q2

Kernland imposes a high tariff on the export of unprocessed cashew nuts in order to ensure that the nuts are sold to domestic processing plants. If the tariff were lifted and unprocessed cashew were sold at world market prices, more farmers could profit by growing cashews. However, since all the processing plants are in urban areas, removing the tariff would seriously hamper the government‘s effort to reduce urban unemployment over the next five years.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

A. Some of the by-products of processing cashews are used for manufacturing plants and plastics

B. Other countries in which cashews are processed subsidize their processing plants

C. More people in kernland are engaged in farming cashews than in processing them

D. Buying unprocessed cashews at lower than world market prices enables cashew processors in kernland to sell processed nuts at competitive prices

E. A lack of profitable crops is driving an increasing number of small farmers in kernland off their land and into the cities

没找到这题的帖子，请求大家讨论下

KEY 是E。

但是我选择了D，有因无果。

原文认为：traiff decline--> less processing work in urban area-->high unemployment

D为 trafii decline --> low price of unprocessed cashew-->competitve processed nuts-->high performance & low unemployment.

原文认为：traiff decline--> less processing work in urban area-->high unemployment

D为 trafii decline --> low price of unprocessed cashew-->competitve processed nuts-->high performance & low unemployment.

我觉得文中的意思是：Kernland imposes a high tariff 为了保证本国的 processing plants有nuts加工。而removing the tariff 会使nuts流向国外。

A. Some of the by-products of processing cashews are used for manufacturing plants and plastics 无关
B. Other countries in which cashews are processed subsidize their processing plants 无关

C. More people in kernland are engaged in farming cashews than in processing them 如果farmers也是在urban的，那C倒是可以weaken的，可是通常来说，farmer都在countryside的呀

D. Buying unprocessed cashews at lower than world market prices enables cashew processors in kernland to sell processed nuts at competitive prices 无关

E. A lack of profitable crops is driving an increasing number of small farmers in kernland off their land and into the cities 难道E是在说，因为越来越多的farmers都到urban去找工作了，所以urban的unemployment rate计算的基数就变大了，所以同样的processing活儿的减少，unemployment rate并不一定增加的？

首先更正题干,lifted改称removed,因为however前后至少应该说一件事,都说remove the tariff

然后区分两个词,domestic和urban,前者是国内,包括城市和农村,后者只说城市

就是两种力量的对抗,一种是种nut的farmer,一种是process nut的工人

所以我觉得这个题目没有太大讨论价值,知道就行了,不好的题目会误导大家

假设提高关税―――》processing plant有钱赚了但是famer的利润太低―――》跑到城市就业，失业率增加所以weaken提供关税

因为tariff were lifted--àfarmer could profit 那么，farmer由于lack profit跑到城市--à说明不撤销tariff 会增加城市失业率(E)