[求助]大全－1－10

Questions 10-11 are based on the following.

Partly because of bad weather, but also partly because some major pepper growers have switched to high-priced cocoa, world production of pepper has been running well below worldwide sales for three years. Pepper is consequently in relatively short supply. The price of pepper has soared in response: it now equals that of cocoa.

10.   Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

(A) Pepper is a profitable crop only if it is grown on a large scale.

(B) World consumption of pepper has been unusually high for three years.

(C) World production of pepper will return to previous levels once normal weather returns.

(D) Surplus stocks of pepper have been reduced in the past three years.（D）

(E) The profits that the growers of pepper have made in the past three years have been unprecedented.

用搜索功能翻了一下过往这题的帖子，发现提问的人只有两个，其中一个还是看错答案，无疾而终。

这道题我有疑问的地方是C，D当时选的时候，就吃不准选哪个，其他答案都很无关。

我做题时的基本思路如下：1,bad weather ; 2,major pepper growers have switched to high-priced cocoa cause world production of pepper below worldwide sales for 3 years-->供小于求（相对短缺）----〉pepper价格上涨并趋于cocca的价格

C:天气转好，产量回升。有人认为这不对，因为天气只是其中一个原因，但是别忘，现在pepper价格已经和cocca一样了，有利可图，会有很到grower，这样看相当于原来两个不利原因都不存在了。所以C没错

E：供大于求，那库存的pepper就会拿出来救急，所以会减少。E也对。

这道题是infer题，所以要必要的作出推理，不能完全用无关词排除法。

希望各位大虾指教我的思维有什么flaw存在，怎样才能排掉C？在此感谢万分。

文章中并没有说pepper的高价就可以吸引人们来种pepper,而且即使人们来种，也许还要经过一段成长期才行，并不能说World production of pepper will return to previous levels once normal weather returns，太绝对了

顶顶!

偶觉得这题有缺陷，D中的surplus stock比较奇怪，怎么能确定一点有surplus stock呢？题目根本没说啊。。。只能假设人们转去种cocoa就是因为pepper卖不出去吧。。。好像也只能选D，因为其他错得更离谱。

A－无关;

B－文中没说需求unusually high，只是因为种的人少了，所以供不应求而已;

C－那个once太绝对，没有任何信息说明“一旦”天气好了，就能return to以前的level，而且还有一部分人转去种cocoa了，这个说法就更加错了;

E－没有任何信息说明这几年的利润是空前的。

Partly because of bad weather, but also partly because some major pepper growers have switched to high-priced cocoa, world production of pepper has been running well below worldwide sales for three years. Pepper is consequently in relatively short supply. The price of pepper has soared in response: it now equals that of cocoa.

偶来interpret下。
这里说的world production of pepper has been running well below worldwide sales for three years说得并不是供小于求。
注意这里说的是产量与销售量。为什么产量与销售量会有这样的差异呢？
答案是存货。
所以就D咯。