求解 36套excercise 6 11题

AnnieZhuo

The historian Frederick J. Turner wrote in the 1890‘s
that the agrarian discontent that had been developing
steadily in the United States since about 1870 had been
Line precipitated by the closing of the internal frontier--that is,
the depletion of available new land needed for further
expansion of the American farming system. Actually,
however, new lands were taken up for farming in the
United States throughout and beyond the nineteenth
century. The emphasis of the presumed disappearance of
the American frontier obscured the great importance of
changes in the conditions and consequences of
international trade that occurred during the second half of
the nineteenth century. Huge tracts of land were being
settled and farmed in Argentina, Australia, Canada, and in
the American West, and these areas were joined with one
another and with the countries of Europe into an
interdependent market system. Consequently, agrarian
depressions no longer were local or national in scope, and
they struck several nations whose internal frontiers had
not vanished or were not about to vanish. Between the
early 1870‘s and the 1890‘s, the mounting agrarian
discontent in America paralleled the almost uninterrupted
decline in the prices of American agricultural products on


11. The author‘s argument implies that, compared
to the yearly price changes that actually
occurred on foreign agricultural markets during
the 1880‘s, American farmers would have most
preferred yearly price changes that were
(A) much smaller and in the same direction
(B) much smaller but in the opposite direction
(C) slightly smaller and in the same direction
(D) similar in size but in the opposite direction
(E) slightly greater and in the same direction



   为什么是D啊////

竹林中人

作者暗含，和实际的国际农产品市场价格变化相比，19世纪80年代美国农民最喜欢什么样的价格变化？
文中说Between the early 1870‘s and the 1890‘s, the mounting agrarian discontent in America paralleled the almost uninterrupted decline in the prices of American agricultural products on foreign markets.也就是说价格一直在下降，那么价格上升是最受农民欢迎的了。