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58.

Neither a rising standard of living nor balanced trade, by itself, establishes a country’s ability to compete in the international marketplace. Both are required simultaneously since standards of living can rise because of growing trade deficits and trade can be balanced by means of a decline in a country’s standard of living.

If the facts stated in the passage above are true, a proper test of a country’s ability to be competitive is its ability to

(A) balance its trade while its standard of living rises

(B) balance its trade while its standard of living falls

(C) increase trade deficits while its standard of living rises

(D) decrease trade deficits while its standard of living falls

(E) keep its standard of living constant while trade deficits rise.

58.

The passage states that a country capable of competing in the international marketplace must balance trade while its standard country’s ability to compete in the international marketplace will establish that both of these conditions are met simultaneously. Since neither choice B, nor choice C, nor choice D, nor choice E describes tests that incorporate both of these criteria, these answers are inappropriate.

Choice A, which describes a test that does, is the best answer.

哪位nn能给解释一下提干什么意思啊？难道是我专业课学的太差，还是钻牛角尖了？

up 一下～  

大牛解答一下吧，真是烦闷啊

首先声明我不是nn.

不是上升的生活标准也不是平衡贸易，它们各自确定了一个国家在国际市场的竞争力，而是两者同时要满足，因为由于上升的贸易赤字能提高生活标准和因为能通过降低一个国家的生活标准来平衡贸易。

也就是说生活标准和平衡贸易一个都不能少。因为贸易赤字会造成生活标准提高的假象（由于贸易不平衡了），降低一个国家的生活标准也会造成平衡贸易的假象。因此国际市场的竞争力如何，比如A选项就可看出，因为在贸易平衡的情况下，生活标准的提高就能看出一个国家的竞争力高。（因为这里的生活标准的提高不是牺牲平衡贸易得来的）

不知说清楚了没，请大家讨论。

哦～是这样啊

我笨了～只是standards of living can rise because of growing trade deficits

让我觉得生活标准得上升是由于贸易赤字，但是按理说应该是贸易赤字会引起国民收入下降从而降低生活标准啊～

题干上也没有指出 standard of living 是一个假象啊，怎么判断啊？

做逻辑题切忌想当然，题目说什么就是什么，不要用常识解题！

只能在承认题目信息正确的情况下解题。

贸易赤字增大可以导致生活水平提高；保持贸易平衡可以以降低生活水平为代价。

所以衡量一个国家的竞争力，要看能不能这两个指标同时兼顾。

这就是题目的意思。

至于为什么贸易赤字增大会导致生活水平上升我们也无须知道；国民收入由四部分组成，贸易赤字会影响NetExport，至于他们几个怎么反应，我也头大，呵呵

明白啦～

不过有时固定思维真是很害人！