[讨论]大全B-8

Current farm policy is institutionalized penalization of consumers. It increases food prices for middle- and low-income families and costs the taxpayer billions of dollars a year.

Which of the following statements, if true, would provide support for the author’s claims above?

I.     Farm subsidies amount to roughly $20 billion a year in federal payouts and $12 billion more in higher food prices.

II.    According to a study by the Department of Agriculture, each $1 of benefits provided to farmers for ethanol production costs consumers and taxpayers $4.

III.   The average full-time farmers have an average net worth of over $300,000.

(A) I only

(B) II only

(C) III only

(D) I and II only

(E) I, II, and III

答案是D.我不知道如何选择,因为根本就看不懂题目与选项.请NN帮忙翻译一下.谢谢.

8.Current farm policy is institutionalized penalization of consumers. It increases food prices for middle- and low-income families and costs the taxpayer billions of dollars a year.

消費者(consumers)既是家計單位(families)也是納稅人(tax payers)

I.     Farm subsidies amount to roughly $20 billion a year in federal payouts(政府支出來源就是納稅人的錢) and $12 billion more in higher food prices(物價提高使得家計單位支出提高).

II. According to a study by the Department of Agriculture, each $1 of benefits provided to farmers for ethanol production costs consumers and taxpayers $4.

補助農夫1元會造成消費者和納稅人4元的支出

题目原文说:当前的农业政策惩罚消费者,因为该政策对中低收入家庭来说增加了食品价格,同时它耗费了纳税人billions of dollars a year.

I 指出 how much federal payout was used to subsidise farm, and especially $12 billions more was used for the "higher food prices" - 支持

II 用具体数字指出每$1对农民的补贴耗费纳税人$4 -  rephase原文, 支持

III - 无关.