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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.

答案是E，想不通。是不是错了？

gonghao

限制出口是为了保护现存工人的饭碗，降低失业率

但是这样的话，profit就低，如果profit低的话，N多农民涌入城市，失业率变高