[求助]GWD-3-2

sandy07627

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 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.

Answer: E

答案我是猜对了，但是我对这里面的一个单词的意思有疑问.

If the tariff were lifted , 这里的lift 是提升的意思吗？

如果是提升的意思好像有对文章的意思有点不通呢。

好像这里的life 应该做取消解释啊。

dingshuaijun

lifted是提高的意思。关税提高，那么就只是很少的出口，而大部分却在国内以国际价格销售，这样就降低了成本（不用交关税）。利润也就很高了。

sandy07627

刚刚问过一个老外啦，这里的意思是remove 的意思。

world market prices 是等于 国内价格加上关税的。

其实这段话的意思是： 国家加上很重的关税是为了让unprocessed cashew nuts 在国内销售，好增加就业率。但是如果免除关税，对farmer 来说就可以在国际市场销售，以获得更多的利润。

下面是我的老外朋友对lift 的解释。

lift only means 'go up' in the physical sense -- like if I lifted Dave above my head and threw him across the room 。

but if it's like a tariff on goods, or a ban on smoking, 'lift' means to remove always

the only way you'd see a tariff going up, would be to 'increase' the tariff
我觉得这道题的关键就是lift 的意思了，我是凭着上下文猜出来的。

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sandy07627 发表于 2008-8-19 22:21
刚刚问过一个老外啦，这里的意思是remove 的意思。world market prices 是等于 国内价格加上关税的。其实这 ...

同意！