[求助]T-9-Q2 请教大家

pipi_wj

T-9-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 cashew 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 plants 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

没找到这题的帖子，请求大家讨论下

KEY 是E。

但是我选择了D，有因无果。

原文认为：traiff decline--> less processing work in urban area-->high unemployment

D为 trafii decline --> low price of unprocessed cashew-->competitve processed nuts-->high performance & low unemployment.

原文认为：traiff decline--> less processing work in urban area-->high unemployment

D为 trafii decline --> low price of unprocessed cashew-->competitve processed nuts-->high performance & low unemployment.

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-3-13 13:41:40编辑过]

Jenny916

我觉得文中的意思是：Kernland imposes a high tariff 为了保证本国的 processing plants有nuts加工。而removing the tariff 会使nuts流向国外。

然后城市的工人就会失业。我觉得D是无关选项。

请NN指正

maomao521

那为什么E对呢？

maomao521

以下是引用Jenny916在2008-3-14 11:37:00的发言：

我觉得文中的意思是：Kernland imposes a high tariff 为了保证本国的 processing plants有nuts加工。而removing the tariff 会使nuts流向国外。

然后城市的工人就会失业。我觉得D是无关选项。

请NN指正

我觉得这个对原题的解释是对的

可是看了5个选项，还是选不出来=.=

      A.      Some of the by-products of processing cashews are used for manufacturing plants and plastics  无关  
      B.       Other countries in which cashews are processed subsidize their processing plants  无关

C.      More people in kernland are engaged in farming cashews than in processing them 如果farmers也是在urban的，那C倒是可以weaken的，可是通常来说，farmer都在countryside的呀

D.      Buying unprocessed cashews at lower than world market prices enables cashew processors in kernland to sell processed nuts at competitive prices   无关

E.       A lack of profitable crops is driving an increasing number of small farmers in kernland off their land and into the cities 难道E是在说，因为越来越多的farmers都到urban去找工作了，所以urban的unemployment rate计算的基数就变大了，所以同样的processing活儿的减少，unemployment rate并不一定增加的？

请教NN

pipi_wj

请大牛进来看看，我开始觉得D好像是无关。为什么E对阿。

Jenny916对原文的理解没有错，我也是这样理解的。

zyca

这道题目如果把lifted改为removed，就非常好理解E选项了，题目的结论说，如果tariff removed会导致本国processing plants无法以便宜的价格购买nuts，于是无法继续运作下去，就必须裁员，导致城市unemployment上升；但同时，tariff removed使得farmer可以以world market price出口，这样就有钱赚，而如果城市无业人口很大一部分是farmer的话，这些farmer回到农村去种地会使得unemployment人口减少，一加一减，达到weaken的目的。

pharmacystar

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 cashew 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.

首先更正题干,lifted改称removed,因为however前后至少应该说一件事,都说remove the tariff

然后区分两个词,domestic和urban,前者是国内,包括城市和农村,后者只说城市

同意楼上说的

就是两种力量的对抗,一种是种nut的farmer,一种是process nut的工人

对farmer有利对工人不利

但是工人失业农民就业

但是E这里还缺了一个假设就是  来到城里的农民是失业的

所以我觉得这个题目没有太大讨论价值,知道就行了,不好的题目会误导大家

maxwangy

我的理解上

假设提高关税―――》processing plant有钱赚了但是famer的利润太低―――》跑到城市就业，失业率增加所以weaken提供关税

jianglan_7

此题考到LIFT的另一个意思：撤销

自己的理解：
        

因为tariff were lifted--àfarmer could profit  那么，farmer由于lack profit跑到城市--à说明不撤销tariff 会增加城市失业率(E)

             这就weaken了结论：removing tariff---à增加失业率

xiaoda

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