标题: 求教GWD12 Q38 [打印本页] 作者: beijin111 时间: 2010-8-23 23:39 标题: 求教GWD12 Q38 Outbreaks of Rift Valley fever occur irregularly in East Africa, several years apart. When outbreaks do occur, they kill thousands of cattle. A livestock vaccine against the disease exists but is rarely used. It is too expensive for farmers to use routinely, and since it is not effective until a month after vaccination, administering it after an outbreak begins helps very little. Nevertheless, experts predict that use of the vaccine will increase significantly within the next few years. Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest justification for the experts’ prediction? A. Rift Valley fever is spread by mosquitoes, but each outbreak is so widespread that it is impractical to control it by using insecticides. B. When an outbreak of Rift Valley fever occurs, unaffected countries often refuse to import livestock from the countries affected by the outbreak. C. It would take less than a month for producers of the vaccine to adjust their production operations to cope with a large increase in demand. D. Many cattle farmers in East Africa are nomadic or live in remote villages, and such farmers, who have little access to modern veterinary medicine, are particularly hard hit by outbreaks of Rift Valley fever. E. Recently published research has shown that certain identifiable climatic conditions are almost invariably followed, within two to five months, by an outbreak of Rift Valley fever.
答案E，请问B为什么不对？当那些未受影响的国家拒绝购买感染的牲口时，农民没有收入，这与较贵的疫苗价格相比，更不划算，所以会迫使农民们给牲口打针。相反的，E选项反而与题干中的in the next few years 时间范围有所不对称,因为recently 的研究很有可能在几个月后就被推翻了，无法保证未来几年的情况。