怎么翻译这题目，很绕感觉~

frankzhiwei

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?



A. Some of the by-products of processing cashews are used for manufacturing paints and plastics.

B. Other countries in which cashews are processed subsidize their processing plants.

C. More people in Kernland are engaged in farming cashews than in processing them.

D. Buying unprocessed cashews at lower than world market prices enables cashew processors in Kernland to sell processed nuts at competitive prices.

E. A lack of profitable crops is driving an increasing number of small farmers in Kernland off their land and into the cities.

错了几次了，请各位指教，题目说啥，以及怎么解释呀，答案是E~

bdsjb116

文章的结论是removing the tariff would seriously hamper the government’s effort to reduce urban unemployment over the next five years.=取消关税会严重的削弱政府五年内对减少城市失业率的努力=取消关税导致失业率增加

因此要削弱就看几个选项是否能达到失业率增加的目的。ABCD都没有提到就业的问题，无关选项。可以直接排出选E.

E 更多的农民会离开他们的农田去到城市。言下之意是作者suppose去到城里的人都有工作，进而减少失业率。

虽然用排除法可以很快得出来，但感觉还是很牵强。农民去到城市要是找不到工作，不就证明了原文的结论么...

babyro

我的理解是
题目意思：tariff使的nut加工在国内，若tariff降低，农民种这种nut 就会有profit。但是呢，加工nut目前都是在城市的， tariff降低，这种加工就不一定在国内了，所以城里的人会失业
ABCD是无关选项，可以排除
E的话，我觉得应该这样理解  

农民是因为 crop没profit才去城市的，如果说种nut有profit了，农民就不会进城了，就业率也不一定会降低啊

aomeisoft7

K强制对未加工的腰果出口进行高税收，为确保腰果能提供给本国的加工厂。如果关税上涨，未加工的腰果以世界市场的价格卖出，更多的农民可从中获利。然而，所有的加工工厂都在城市里，移除关税会严重损害政府为减少城市失业所作出的努力

其实我也不是很明白，前面要高税收，最后一句话又remove税收，要表达什么意思？

bdsjb116

我也觉得很奇怪。任何导致失业率增加的选项不都是在support不是在weaken么。我理解的weaken都是针对论点，所以选项不管是直接还是间接要证明关税取消失业率不会增加才是weaken。搜索了之前的讨论贴，也没见有人能说到点子上。

我理解的题目意思是: 出口关税高，农民把nuts卖给plants；如果关税提高并且农民把nuts卖给国外，农民就可以获利。言下之意是有关税要是lifted了的时候就不关国内plants什么事情了，plants的人都会失业。如果关税取消，会严重的削弱政府五年内对减少城市失业率的努力。

还是没懂E的意思，如果真要从答案推原因只能说是: 导致失业率增加的原因是 A lack of profitable crops,而不是the removal of tariff. E把失业率的前提换了，所以就削弱了...

aomeisoft7

我发现了一个关键点，不过不知道对不对
If the tariff were lifted = 如果取消关税
lift的意思是 "移除“
controls/laws [transitive]     to remove a rule or a law that says that something is not allowed
lift a restriction/an embargo/sanctions etc

aomeisoft7

我终于明白了！！这里的lift确实是"终止"的意思。和后面的remove照应，lift=remove，不过不明白它的意思也可以解出答案
结论：移除关税，失业率增加
要削弱此结论，应该是：不移除关税，失业率也会增加

E选项意思是，不移除关税，nut的价格很低，农民赚不到钱，所以很多农民就不种了，到城里务工。城里劳动力供给大量增多，失业率增加