请教prepII-60,我选的E

sires_0

60.Large national dget deficits do not cause
                large trade deficits.  If they did, countries with the Large national dget deficits ould also have the large trade deficits.  In fact, when deficit figures are adjusted so that different countries are reliably comparable to each other, there is no such correlation.

If the statements above are all true, which of the following can properly be inferred on the basis of them? 

(A) Countries with large national budget deficits tend to restrict foreign trade.

(B) Reliable comparisons of the deficit figures of one country with those of another are impossible.

(C) Reducing a country's national budget deficit will not necessarily result in a lowering of any trade deficit that country may have.

(D) When countries are ordered from largest to smallest in terms of population, the smallest countries generally have the smallest budget and trade deficits.

(E) Countries with the largest trade deficits never have similarly large national budget deficits.

正确答案选C，我选的是E。

我觉得E更直接的说明了largest trade deficits 与large national budget deficits之间 no such correlation。

不明白C为什么对，C只是说明了national budget deficit与 trade deficit之间no such correlation。而原文通篇说的不都是Large national dget deficits
                        和large trade deficits吗？

正确答案选C，我选的是E。

我觉得E更直接的说明了largest trade deficits 与large national budget deficits之间 no such correlation。

不明白C为什么对，C只是说明了national budget deficit与 trade deficit之间no such correlation。而原文通篇说的不都是Large national dget deficits
                和large trade deficits吗？

ruirui_hsu

我跟你错的是一样的，我看了答案以后感觉明白些了。

when deficit figures are adjusted so that different countries are reliably comparable to each other, there is no such correlation. 前半句，我到现在也没怎么看懂！希望有人可以帮我翻译一下，最好翻译整个题干，呵呵

我的思路：

题中一直在说national budget deficit 和 trade deficit 的关系，最后原文结论是在XX时，他们没有correlation. 那么我们可以推断出，这两者无关就可以了。

这是一个横向的比较，旨在比较两个deficit.

而E 则是纵向比较，比较的是国家而不是deficit之间的关系，更不是说largest trade deficits 与large national budget deficits的关系。

sires_0

以下是引用ruirui_hsu在2009/8/4 16:38:00的发言：

我跟你错的是一样的，我看了答案以后感觉明白些了。

when deficit figures are adjusted so that different countries are reliably comparable to each other, there is no such correlation. 前半句，我到现在也没怎么看懂！希望有人可以帮我翻译一下，最好翻译整个题干，呵呵

我的思路：

题中一直在说national budget deficit 和 trade deficit 的关系，最后原文结论是在XX时，他们没有correlation. 那么我们可以推断出，这两者无关就可以了。

这是一个横向的比较，旨在比较两个deficit.

而E 则是纵向比较，比较的是国家而不是deficit之间的关系，更不是说largest trade deficits 与large national budget deficits的关系。

原文其实否定的是largest trade deficits 与large national budget deficits的因果关系，从原文第一句Large national dget deficits do not cause large trade deficits即可推出。

C正是此意思..... deficit will not necessarily result in ......trade deficit 。

而E表达的意思是trade deficits 和budget deficits之间没有数量关系。

是不是这样理解的呢?