提问贴“费允杰17.50 lesson3 10"

10. Which of the following best completes the passage
below?

"Government" does not exist as an independent entity defining policy.
Instead there exists a group of democratically elected pragmatists sensitive to
the electorate, who establish policies that will result in their own
reelection. Therefore, if public policy is hostile to, say, environmental
concerns, it is not because of government perversity but because elected
officials believe that_____

(A) environmentalists would be extremely difficult to satisfy with any policy
however environmentally sound

(B) environmental concerns are being accommodated as well as public funds
permit

(C) the public is overly anxious about environmental deterioration

(D) the majority of voters vote for certain politicians because of those
politicians' idiosyncratic positions on policy issues

(E) the majority of voters do not strongly wish for a different policy

这道题的答案是E

我大概读懂了题目的意思，但是未掌握到题目的逻辑意义。有点摸不清楚题目要传达的意义。也不明白为什么要选E

我觉得题目的意思是："政府”并非作为制定政策的独立实体而存在。相反，被民主选举的一群实用主义者对选民很敏感。他们制定的政策会导致他们被重新选举。因此，如果公共的政策不关心环境，并非因为政府的堕落，而是因为被选举的官员相信________