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.
E.A lack of profitable crops is driving an increasing number of small farmers in kernland off their land and into the cities
觉得这个题干的逻辑链非常奇怪，先说下我自己的理解吧，请各位指教~
题目说K收取很高的出口关税，目的是想让未被加工的腰果买到国内的加工市场里。然后说如果关税提高了，未被加工的腰果就可以以国际市场价格售卖，农民就会获利。然后它居然however了，而且however后面居然是removing关税不行，因为这会提高城市的失业率。
按照正常逻辑，怎么可能关税提高农民获利呢？而后面又关税降低农民获利，导致加工厂受损失。自相矛盾这是神马逻辑……
废话一大堆，也就是说我觉得lift那个词错了，应该是一个表示减低的词……
欢迎拍砖，谢谢大家啦！！！！！
The arugment hinges on the assumption that once the tariff is lifted --> farmer will sell MORE of their products to international processing plants instead of domestic processing plants --> lay-offs in domestic processing plants --> higher unemployment rate in urban areas.
E) says if the government do not lift the tariff, more unemployed farmer will go to urban areas and pop up urban unemployement rate.
Therefore, E) points out one cause of the high unemployment rate in the urban area. Lifting tariff could remove that cause. With some luck, the new positions created for homecoming farmers might outnumber the pink slips sent for workers in processing plants! So the net result of such tariff change might reduce the urban unemployment rate!
Overall, E) makes the orginal argument less likely.
Lifted is not INCREASED. It is REMOVED. When you lift a tariff, you effectively removed the tariff.
-- by 会员 sdcar2010 (2011/6/7 11:18:56)