OG12-閱讀第六篇

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Although this approach was preferable to victimizing other geographical areas by taking their jobs, it also had its shortcomings

尤其是preferable to的用法?
第30題解不出來阿!

整段內容是:
On the 1980s the strategy shifted from this zero-sum game to one called “high-technology development,” in which local governments competed to attract newly formed high-technology manufacturing firms. Although this approach was preferable to victimizing other geographical areas by taking their jobs, it also had its shortcomings: high-tech manufacturing firms employ only a specially trained fraction of the manufacturing workforce, and there simply are not enough high-tech firms to satisfy all geographic areas.

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