问gwd的一道逻辑题

qinyitian

这题里面的lifted是指把关税撤销还是升高呢？从意思上看貌似是撤销：对农民有好处，对城市失业率不利，可答案选的E，农民涌入城市，这个是怎么起的削弱作用呢？

 

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

dldennis

an increasing number of small farmers, 这个small 是什么意思? 是"少量"的意思吗?

qinyitian

同问，这个我也不清楚

dldennis

E选项的意思是不是说 低收益也不会导致农民涌入城市？

foxzhang08

ls为正解，lift是指关税下降，E就是说，农民在乡下不挣钱，都进城了,

dldennis

以下是引用foxzhang08在2008-9-21 19:36:00的发言：

ls为正解，lift是指关税下降，E就是说，农民在乡下不挣钱，都进城了,

如果农民都进城了，将会导致失业率升高啊，怎么削弱呢？

qinyitian

以下是引用dldennis在2008-9-21 22:34:00的发言：

如果农民都进城了，将会导致失业率升高啊，怎么削弱呢？

是啊是啊，为什么啊？