Verbal Review 2nd ---23 怎么觉得没正确答案啊。。。

sunnylbs

No. 23 Near Chicago a newly built hydroponic spinach "factory", a completely controlled environment for growing spinach, produces on 1 acre of floor space what it takes 100 acres of fields to produce. Expenses, especially for electricity, are high, however, and the spinach produced costs about four times as much as washed California field spinach, the spinach commonly sold throughout the United States.
Which of the following, if true, best supports a projection that the spinach-growing facility near Chicago will be profitable?


A. Once the operators of the facility are experienced, they will be able to cut operating expenses by about 25 percent.



B. There is virtually no scope for any further reduction in the cost per pound for California field spinach.


C. Unlike washed field spinach, the hydroponically grown spinach is untainted by any pesticides or herbicides and thus will sell at exceptionally high prices to such customers as health food restaurants.


D. Since spinach is a crop that ships relatively well, the market for the hydroponically grown spinach is no more limited to the Chicago area than the market for California field spinach is to California.


E. A second hydroponic facility is being built in Canada, taking advantage of inexpensive electricity and high vegetable prices.


一开始就觉得没有正确选项，因为没有明确的成本与售价的对比，不能确定能否盈利。在A和C中勉为其难选了A，觉得成本多少也降了一些，但C中的high price谁知道能high到哪去啊。。。结果正确答案是C，解释说This statement properly identifies a value that allows the high-priced hydroponic spinach to compete successfully with the less expensive California spinach. 是因为C中的“exceptionally high"吗？还是它提出了一般spinach所不具备的可以compete的特点？不太明白出题人的意图，请求高人指点~~~

sdcar2010

Exceptionally high means sky high or charging whatever price you want! Could be 10-fold or 1000-fold!

sdcar2010

C is the right answer.