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Q2:

Kernland imposes a high tariff on the export of unprocessed cashew nuts in order to

ensure that the nuts are sold to domestic processing plants. If the tariff were lifted and

unprocessed cashews were sold at world market prices, more farmers could profit by

growing cashews. However, since all the processing plants are in urban areas, removing

the tariff would seriously hamper the government’s effort to reduce urban unemployment

over the next five years.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

A. Some of the by-products of processing cashews are used for manufacturing paints

and plastics.

B. Other countries in which cashews are processed subsidize their processing plants.

C. More people in Kernland are engaged in farming cashews than in processing them.

D. Buying unprocessed cashews at lower than world market prices enables cashew

processors in Kernland to sell processed nuts at competitive prices.

E. A lack of profitable crops is driving an increasing number of small farmers in

Kernland off their land and into the cities.

E, too

答案为E

第一点, farmers不算在城市失业人群中;

第二点, 很多农民不种这种dd, 导致价格升高,利润增加, 从而使得位于城市中的plants不会倒闭, 从而增加就业率; 削弱不需要充分性,虽然可以举出很多个因素进行反对;

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