GWD 3套 VerbalQ2 答案是E，为什么呢？？各位大侠帮下忙！

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 was 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?

1. Some of the by-products of processing cashews are used for manufacturing paints and plastics.
2. Other countries in which cashews are processed subsidize their processing plants.
3. More people in Kernland are engaged in farming cashews than in processing them.
4. Buying unprocessed cashews at lower than world market prices enables cashew processors in Kernland to sell processed nuts at competitive prices.
5. A lack of profitable crops is driving an increasing number of small farmers in Kernland off their land and into the cities.

谢谢 您对文章的翻译， 不过我不很赞同您的看法，首先我对这句话的翻译If the tariff was lifted and unprocessed cashews were sold at world market prices, more farmers could profit by growing cashews. 是：如果取消这种高关税并且把未加工的腰果以国际市场价卖出去的话，更多的农民可以获利。

还有最后一句removing the tariff would seriously hamper the government’s effort to reduce urban unemployment over the next five years. 我认为作者说 去除关税能够使失业率在未来5年来上升。

是对这个结论的weaken，E 怎么样都是使失业率上升 起support的作用啊！ 天哪 好搞人啊！ 请再帮我分析分析！ 谢谢您！

结论：去掉tariff，会危及降低城市失业率的努力，就是会使得失业率增加

E：缺乏有经济价值的作物，会有更多的人涌入城市

关税过高，不能在国际市场上卖，则钱赚不到，没有经济利益。农民没钱赚涌入城市。

E在说，不去掉tariff，也会造成城市的大量失业。削弱结论

还是不明白， when the tariff is lifted 到底指去除关税还是实施关税啊 我感觉是祛除 不过这样的话 E是怎么样削弱了结论了呢？

个人觉得gonghao说的有道理，但是我错选的答案C：

更多的人会去种植腰果而不去加工它。

这可不可以解释成城市的失业人口转向农村了呢？so城市的失业率就降低了……

被这道题搞晕了……

跟俺娘讨论了一下，俺娘的观点：

C选项：不要税，城里人跑到农村去

E选项：要税，农村人跑到城里来

则：不要税的话城里人还是有活干，没失业，要税的话农村跑到城里来，种的腰果少了，不一定有的加工，so失业率上升……

说得罗唆了，基本观点和gonghao一样。

不知道高手们都怎么看捏？

我在collins cobuild字典上查到lift的英文解释是：“If people in authority lift a law or rule that prevents people from doing something,they end it."所以我觉得这里lift的意思应该是取消。

我对这道题的理解是:第一句：政府对未加工的腰果出口实行了高关税，因为这样就可以让国内的腰果加工厂有生意做了．第二句：如果取消了这个关税，未加工的腰果就可以以国际市场价格的价格卖出去，这样其实对农民是有利的．第三句：然而，因为所有的腰果加工厂都设在城市，要真的取消了这个关税，城市未来五年的失业率就会上升了．

我感觉后两句话是政府对自己为什么最终要实行这个关税的解释（虽然不实行对农民是有利的，但是就会对城市的就业率不利，而降低城市失业率正是未来五年政府努力的方向，所以只好牺牲农民的利益了）

E的意思是说牺牲了农民的利益（A lack of profitable crops ），农民就都跑到城市来了．这样，政府想降低失业率的设想还是不能实现．

不知道对不对，还请高手指点一二．．．