【快考了】HELP！GWD10 12

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One proposal for preserving

rain forests is to

promote the adoption of

Line
new agricultural technolo-


(5)
gies, such as improved


plant varieties and use of

chemical herbicides, which

would increase productivity

and slow deforestation by

(10)
reducing demand for new


cropland. Studies have

shown that farmers in

developing countries who

have achieved certain levels

(15)
of education, wealth, and


security of land tenure are

more likely to adopt such

technologies. But these

studies have focused on

(20)
villages with limited land


that are tied to a market

economy rather than on

the relatively isolated, self-sufficient

communities with

(25)
ample land characteristic of


rain-forest regions. A recent

study of the Tawahka people

of the Honduran rain forest

found that farmers with some

(30)
formal education were more


likely to adopt improved plant

varieties but less likely to

use chemical herbicides

and that those who spoke

(35)
Spanish (the language of


the market economy) were

more likely to adopt both

technologies. Nonland

wealth was also associated

(40)
with more adoption of both


technologies, but availability

of uncultivated land reduced

the incentive to employ the

productivity-enhancing tech-

(45)
nologies. Researchers


also measured land-tenure

security: in Tawahka

society, kinship ties are a

more important indicator of

(50)
this than are legal property


rights, so researchers

measured it by a household’s

duration of residence

in its village. They found

(55)
that longer residence correlated


with more adoption

of improved plant varieties

but less adoption of

chemical herbicides.



GWD-10-Q12:

The passage suggests that in the study mentioned in line 27 the method for gathering information about security of land tenure reflects which of the following pairs of assumptions about Tawahka society?

A. The security of a household’s land tenure depends on the strength of that household’s kinship ties, and the duration of a household’s residence in its village is an indication of the strength of that household’s kinship ties.

B. The ample availability of land makes security of land tenure unimportant, and the lack of a need for secure land tenure has made the concept of legal property rights unnecessary.

C. The strength of a household’s kinship ties is a more reliable indicator of that household’s receptivity to new agricultural technologies than is its quantity of nonland wealth, and the duration of a household’s residence in its village is a  more reliable indicator of that household’s security of land tenure than is the strength of its kinship ties.

D. Security of land tenure based on kinship ties tends to make farmers more receptive to the use of improved plant varieties, and security of land tenure basedon long duration of residence in a village tends to make farmers more receptive tothe use of chemical herbicides.  

E. A household is more likely to be receptive to the concept of land tenure based on legal property rights if it has easy access to uncultivated land, and a household ismore likely to uphold the tradition of land tenure based on kinship ties if itpossesses a significant degree of nonland wealth.

答案：A

问：怎么看出应定位在粉色部分？拜求NN解答

edwardelric

我第一遍读完文章是看到最后一句，用高科技但是少用了杀虫剂，
在27也是高科技少用化肥，
中间必然是原因的阐述，顺着读出来的
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