PREP旧 CR2-18 请热心人帮忙解答，感激...

kornmiao

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The Calex Telecommunications Company is planning to introduce cellular telephone service into isolated coastal areas of Caladia, a move which will require considerable investment.However, the only significant economic activity in these areas is small-scale coffee farming, and none of the coffee farmers make enough money to afford the monthly service fees that Calex would have to charge to make a profit.Nevertheless, Calex contends that making the service available to these farmers will be profitable.

Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest support for Calex's contention?

(A) Currently, Caladian coffee farmers are forced to sell their coffee to local buyers at whatever price those buyers choose to pay because the farmers are unable to remain in contact with outside buyers who generally offer higher prices.

(B) In the coastal areas of Caladia where Calex proposes to introduce cellular telephone service, there is currently no fixed-line telephone service because fixed-line companies do not believe that they could recoup their investment.

(C) A cellular telephone company can break even with a considerably smaller number of subscribers than a fixed-line company can, even in areas such as the Caladian coast, where there is no difficult terrain to drive up the costs of installing fixed lines.

(D) Calex bases its monthly fees for cellular telephone service in a given region partly on the cost of installing the necessary equipment to provide the service there.

(E) Calex has for years made a profit on cellular telephone service in Caladia's capital city, which is not far from the coastal region.

为什么C选项不行.Calex公司可以在 a considerably smaller number of subscribers 条件下接近目标.

buffonjuventus

鄙人之见，C没有在根本上解决问题，A比较一目了然，赚了更多的钱的farmer就可以afford那个service fee。

kornmiao

A是比较直接. 不过绕了个小圈子. 这样算不算自己臆想推断呢

kornmiao

我明白了.A还有做成的可能性. C的可能性更小. 因为farmer的原因就在于money. 没有money,就不会有人用这个公司的手机. 这个公司的运作条件再简单也没用.....

buffonjuventus

对啊，或者可以这样理解。看原文从however开始，后面应该是作者比较强调的地方，就是咖啡农民们没钱来afford，然后到Nevertheless，得处电信公司的结论，当中缺失的部分希望你能选出选项来补全，那么顺着however后面的钱来说，也应该是农民缺钱的问题的倒了解决，所以nevertheless，电信公司确信他们回profitable。

qingqian

请教C选项是什么意思啊~~

buffonjuventus

C选项是说Calex可以用比fixedline更少的签约客户就可以达到收支平衡，可是这不能解决农民没钱的问题。比如fixed line的成本需要10个客户的service fee才能收支平衡，而Calex可以用5个客户的service fee就达到收支平衡了。本质上，1个能付得起的都没有，所以它需要的subscriber少，也没用。不好意思啊，刚刚看到你的短消息。

justin330

不知这样说会不会更简洁些：农民买了手机后，就可以和外界联系了，就不用再被当地人压榨价格了。