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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.
5. A lack of profitable crops is driving an increasing number of small farmers in Kernland off their land and into the cities.

作题的时候才发现,提干中的argument产生模糊了.答案是E,可是我看E应该是support, not weaken呀

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float up!

adpang

典型农民工进城的故事，中国人答不出来不应该。

本来农民种c,但政府不让出口，要的人少，养活不了家里的７，８个女娃，只好进城去c的加工工厂了。现在形式转好，工厂倒闭后就回家种地了，老婆孩子热炕头，又能通过出口ｃ赚取外汇，谁会在城里晃悠呢。所以工厂倒闭了也不会增加失业人口，因为都回家了。

liubin1987

还没留意过这么经典的帖子~