问题请教 涛涛GWD 3-2

soloenti

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?

 

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.

E.A lack of profitable crops is driving an increasing number of small farmers in Kernland off their land and into the cities.                  答案 E   想请教C选项为何不行    谢谢          是因为要否定掉关税的实行与否吗  还是否定掉失业率的问题            谢谢

caterpillarcn

what the government cares is the urban unemployment rate, not rural. so how many people are engaged in rural farming is not related to this issue.