大全 B-8, B-15

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8. Current farm policy is institutionalized penalization of consumers. It increases food prices for middle- and low-income families and costs the taxpayer billions of dollars a year.
Which of the following statements, if true, would provide support for the author’s claims above?
I.  Farm subsidies amount to roughly $20 billion a year in federal payouts and $12 billion more in higher food prices.
II.  According to a study by the Department of Agriculture, each $1 of benefits provided to farmers for ethanol production costs consumers and taxpayers $4.
III. The average full-time farmers have an average net worth of over $300,000.
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) III only
(D) I and II only
(E) I, II, and III

II是study的结果，只有在current farm policy provide benefit to farmers for ethanol production的情况下才成立，而题干中并无相关描述，如何support argument呢

15. In the effort to fire a Civil Service employee, his or her manager may have to spend up to $100,000 of tax money. Since Civil Service employees know how hard it is to fire them, they tend to loaf. This explains in large part why the government is so inefficient.
It can be properly inferred on the basis of the statements above that the author believes which of the following?
I.  Too much job security can have a negative influence on workers.
II.  More government workers should be fired.
III. Most government workers are Civil Service employees.
(A) I only
(B) I and III only
(C) II only
(D) I, II, and III
(E) III only

II和III有什么问题呢？

多谢各位大牛指点。