GWD23-9

debralee

这道题的答案是E,可是E不相关啊，使农民放弃农场进城不是加重了城市的失业吗? 这削弱反而加强了。我觉得D更合适，如低价能购买未加工的果仁并使得加工过的能够在市场上提供有竞争性的价格，不是能够说明这样能促进贸易增加城市的就业机会，从而削弱了结论吗？

想听听大家的想法。

Q9:

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.

月下无泪

我也觉得E是加强啊

因为这样unemployment就提高了耶，farmer都到城市了啊

有牛人指教指教吗