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18.   There are far fewer children available for adoption than there are people who want to adopt. Two million couples are currently waiting to adopt, but in 1982, the last year for which figures exist, there were only some 50,000 adoptions.

Which of the following statements, if true, most strengthens the author’s claim that there are far fewer children available for adoption than there are people who want to adopt?

(A) The number of couples waiting to adopt has increased significantly in the last decade.

(B) The number of adoptions in the current year is greater than the number of adoptions in any preceding year.

(C) The number of adoptions in a year is approximately equal to the number of children available for adoption in that period.

(D) People who seek to adopt children often go through a long process of interviews and investigation by adoption agencies.（C）

(E) People who seek to adopt children generally make very good parents.

这道题怎么是c呢？ a怎么不对呢？

c不能说明什么吧？也不能支持呀？

原文结论：等候ADOPTION的儿童比等候要ADOPT的成人多。

结论的根据是：有200万成人等候ADOPT儿童，1982年的数据显示有50万ADOPTION发生。

所以原文有个GAP，50万ADOPTION是否说明只有50万儿童等着被收养呢？如果，虽然只有50万ADOPTION发生，但是实际的等待收养的儿童远远大于50万的话，原文的推理会有问题的。

答案C就搭了个桥。

A说等待ADOPT的承认增长，在我看来有点削弱功能，说明1982年的等待ADOPT的承认远远少于现在的200万。

dashasha是不是看错了？

应该是：能够被收养的儿童比人们需要的量少。（话有点糙，不过应该是这个意思）

C是说：所有能被收养的儿童都被收养了——即：不会出现 children for adoption不被收养的情况，支持了原文的结论。

as for c, that adoption equals the children available leads to that in 1982, 50,000 children were available for adoption, which is too less than 2 million.

a merely mentions the couples that want to adopt increased, but does not mention about the amount of the available children.

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