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peachflee

(The following is based on material written in 1996.)

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, signed in 1987 by more than

150 nations, has attained its short-term goals: it has decreased the rate of increase in amounts of

most ozone-depleting chemicals reaching the atmosphere and has even reduced the atmospheric

levels of some of them. The projection that the ozone layer will substantially recover from ozone

depletion by 2050 is based on the assumption that the protocol’s regulations will be strictly

followed. Yet there is considerable evidence of violations, particularly in the form of the release of

ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s), which are commonly used in the refrigeration,

heating, and air conditioning industries. These violation reflect industry attitudes; for example, in

the United States, 48 percents of respondents in a recent survey of subscribers to Air Conditioning,

Heating, and Refrigeration News, and industry trade journal, said that they did not believe that

CFC’s damage the ozone layer. Moreover, some in the industry apparently do not want to pay for

CFC substitutes, which can run five times the cost of CFC’s. Consequently, a black market in

imported illicit CFC’s has grown. Estimates of the contraband CFC trade range from 10,000 to

22,000 tons a year, with most of the CFC’s originating in India and China, whose agreements

under the Protocol still allow them to produce CFC’s. In fact, the United States Customs Service

reports that CFC-12 is a contraband problem second only to illicit drugs

285. The passage suggests which of the following about the illicit trade in CFC’s?

(A) It would cease if manufacturers in India and China stopped producing CFC’s.

(B) Most people who participate in such trade do not believe that CFC’s deplete the ozone

layer.

(C) It will probably surpass illicit drugs as the largest contraband problem faced by the United

States Custom Services.

(D) It is fostered by people who do not want to pay the price of CFC substitutes.

(E) It has grown primarily because of the expansion of the refrigenration, heating, and

air-conditioning industries in foreign countries.

看了解释后我也觉得D对

我选的是C，我觉得黄色部分可以推出C选项，请牛人帮忙看一下

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wangyu73cn

285.

The question asks what the passage implies about the illicit trade in CFC’s. The best answer is D. The passage states that some industry members appear not to want to pay the price of CFC substitutes, and that consequently a black market in cheaper CFC’s has emerged. This implies that the black market is fostered at least in part by those industry members who are unwilling to pay the higher price of CFC substitutes. Choice A can be eliminated because the passage states only that most contraband CFC’s originate in India and China. This does not imply that the illicit trade in CFC’s could not continue without manufacturers in those countries.

Choice B is not correct because the passage does not provide information about the beliefs of participants in the illicit CFC trade.

Choice C is incorrect because the passage states only that the United States Customs Service considers the illicit CFC trade to be a problem second only to the illicit drug trade: there is no suggestion in the passage that the illicit CFC trade is expected to develop into a larger problem than the illicit drug trade.

Choice E is incorrect because the passage attributes the growth of the illicit trade in CFC’s to the high cost of CFC substitutes, not to an expansion of refrigeration, heating, and air-conditioning industries in foreign countries.

我觉得C选项所描述的是一种可能，但并不能从文章中直接推断出来。比起D选项来，C不是最优选项。

madben

以下是引用peachflee在2005-5-31 23:11:00的发言：

Consequently, a black market in

imported illicit CFC’s has grown. In fact, the United States Customs Service

reports that CFC-12 is a contraband problem second only to illicit drugs

285. The passage suggests which of the following about the illicit trade in CFC’s?

(A) It would cease if manufacturers in India and China stopped producing CFC’s.

(B) Most people who participate in such trade do not believe that CFC’s deplete the ozone

layer.

(C) It will probably surpass illicit drugs as the largest contraband problem faced by the United

States Custom Services.

(D) It is fostered by people who do not want to pay the price of CFC substitutes.

(E) It has grown primarily because of the expansion of the refrigenration, heating, and

air-conditioning industries in foreign countries.

看了解释后我也觉得D对

我选的是C，我觉得黄色部分可以推出C选项，请牛人帮忙看一下

There is no way that you can tell how fast the illicit drugs trade will increase. It could grow even faster than CFC trade. Thus answer C is incorrect.