机考真提的CR的11,看不明白,谁帮忙啊?

jannewencn

11. 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?
A. Some of the by-products of processing cashews are used for manufacturing paints and plastics.
B. Other countries in which cashews are processed subsidize their processing plants.
C. More people in Kernland are engaged in farming cashews than in processing them.
D. 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.

那是个题目,答案是E,我选的是D,虽然D觉得也不是很对,可是好象觉得E也不太对啊

NN帮忙看下八~谢谢先

mindfree

D is to support the argument. E simply states that more people need to be employed (aggrevate unemployment problem) in the city when the tariif in imposed.

joice

Premise; if the tariff were lifted, more farmers make profits
Conclusion: removing the tariff would seriously hamper the government’s effort to reduce urban unemployment--.

E states that unprofitable crops add a burden to urban unemployment problem, because farmers moving into city is one of the factors that  cause urban unemployment.

E thus weakens the argument. Tariff will not hamper the urban unemployment.

joice

haha, i am slow

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-11-7 13:43:19编辑过]

mindfree

It is not that you were slow. You simply explained more in detail.

天山

这个题目我虽说选对了，但是对题目要表达的意思还不是很明白。
第一句：. 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   
第二句： If the tariff were lifted and unprocessed cashews were sold at world market prices, more farmers could profit by growing cashews

第一句与第二句之间好象没有什么关系，而且第一句话看起来就是多余的。类似这样的情况在GMAT中还不少，是我理解有误，还是ETS用来干扰我们的思路，请帮我理顺理顺！

cranberry

没有第一句，你能明白第二句的意思吗？

julia_722

以下是引用joice在2003-11-7 13:40:00的发言：.

E thus weakens the argument. Tariff will not hamper the urban unemployment.

为什么我理解原文是说，removing the tariff would seriously hamper the government’s effort ，并不是tariff本身会hamper政府改善失业

所以我怎么看都觉得E是加强，是不是哪里理解错了，请高手指点啊！！
礼拜五考啊，着急啊~~谢谢啊~~~

rosemsem

what government wanted was to impose the tarriff and reduce unemployment in urban areas.  
but what the tarriff caused was that increase of unemployment be'cos of people moving from farmers to urban areas.