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72.

Large national budget deficits do not cause large trade deficits. If they did, countries with the largest budget deficits would also have the largest trade deficits. In fact, when deficit figures are adjusted so that different countries are reliably comparable to each other, there is no such correlation.

If the statements above are all true, which of the following can properly be inferred on the basis of them?

(A) Countries with large national budget deficits tend to restrict foreign trade.

(B) Reliable comparisons of the deficit figures of one country with those of another are impossible.

(C) Reducing a country’s national budget deficit will not necessarily result in a lowering of any trade deficit that country may have.

(D) When countries are ordered from largest to smallest in terms of population, the smallest countries generally have the smallest budget and trade deficits.

(E) Countries with the largest trade deficits never have similarly large national budget deficits.

72.

The passage asserts that large budgets deficits do not cause large trade deficits. If this is so, it is possible that a country with large budget and trade deficits could reduce its budget deficit and yet retain a large trade deficit. Thus, choice C is the best answer.

None of the other choices can be inferred. The passage says nothing about how countries respond to large budget deficits (choice A). The passage states that comparing deficit figures for different countries can be reliable (contrary to choice B). Correlation between deficit size and population size (choice D) is not at issue in the passage. Finally, it is consistent with the passage that countries with the largest trade deficits sometimes have similarly large budget deficits (choice E).

请教各位牛牛，为什么e项有问题，是不是因为他太绝对了，出现了never这样的词，关于解释，原文中哪里表现出it is consistent with the passage that countries with the largest trade deficits sometimes have similarly large budget deficits ？

it is consistent with the passage that countries with the largest trade deficits sometimes have similarly large budget deficits ？

这个不是原文表现出来的吧，原文说了一个命题，Large national budget deficits do not cause large trade deficits，那么除了这个命题的否定，其他的衍生都是有可能的，其一就是countries with the largest trade deficits sometimes have similarly large budget deficits

there is no such correlation.

结合context,这句话可否表达出这样一个意思：

countries with the largest budget deficits would not have the largest trade deficits.