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 security; researcher Assume以上两种关系,所以才通过measured it by a household’s duration of residence来确定land-tenure security;
household’s duration of residence-->kinship ties
E和最后一句话矛盾,文中说他们不愿用less adoption of chemical herbicides,选向说用得多.
大家认为呢?
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。
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