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Fish currently costs about the same at seafood stores throughout Eastville and its surrounding suburbs. Seafood stores buy fish from the same wholesalers and at the same prices, and other business expenses have also been about the same. But new tax breaks will substantially lower the cost of doing business within the city. Therefore, in the future, profit margins will be higher at seafood stores within the city than at suburban seafood stores.

For the purposes of evaluating the argument, it would be most useful to know whether.

(A)
                    more fish wholesalers are located within the city than in the surrounding suburbs.

(B)  Any people who currently own seafood stores in the suburbs surrounding Eastville will relocate their businesses nearer to the city

(C)  The wholesale price of fish is likely to fall in the future

(D)
                    Fish has always cost about the same at seafood stores throughout Eastville and its surrounding suburbs.

(E)  Seafood stores within the city will in the future set prices that are lower than those at suburban seafood stores.

答案是Ｅ，我选Ｄ。

我的推理：

鱼在Ｅ市和郊区差不多价格，并且在两地的经营成本差不多。但是Ｅ市的经营成本将会显著减少，所以Ｅ市的卖鱼利润空间将会比郊区高。

For the purposes of evaluating the argument, it would be most useful to know whether：

Therefore, in the future, profit margins will be higher at seafood stores within the city than at suburban seafood stores.

我觉得重点在黄色这句

D是个tricky的选项它仅表示成本会相同但文章结论是这家seafood store未来是否有利可图….与成本相同无意义…

所以ans: (E)  Seafood stores within the city will in the future set prices that are lower than those at suburban seafood stores是或否才能做评估

有道理,多谢。原题也已经给出Fish currently costs about the same at seafood stores throughout Eastville and its surrounding suburbs。