这题不懂，能不能请论坛上的朋友帮忙解释分析下

lelouchn

Goronian lawmaker:  Goronia's Cheese Importation Board, the agency responsible for inspecting all wholesale shipments of cheese entering Goronia from abroad and rejecting shipments that fail to meet specified standards, rejects about one percent of the cheese that it inspects.  Since the health consequences and associated costs of not rejecting that one percent would be negligible, whereas the cost of maintaining the agency is not, the agency's cost clearly outweighs the benefits it provides.
Knowing the answer to which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the lawmaker's argument?
A. Are any of the types of cheeses that are imported into Goronia also produced in Goronia?
B. Has the Cheese Importation Board, over the last several years, reduced its operating costs by eliminating inefficiencies within the agency itself?
C. Does the possibility of having merchandise rejected by the Cheese Importation Board deter many cheese exporters from shipping substandard cheese to Goronia?
D. Are there any exporters of cheese to Goronia whose merchandise is never rejected by the Cheese Importation Board?
E. How is the cheese rejected by the Cheese Importation Board disposed of?

amyyueyue

看了一下，说一点我的想法，但我逻辑也不好，互相促进吧！
lawmaker的arguement主要就是the agency's cost outweighs the benefits,这个agency是干嘛的，开头就说了它是inspecting cheese and reject cheese的，它的主要cost就在于自身的比如是：工人工资啊等等（我觉得它好像进出口检验检疫局啊）
A）imported 的cheese 又produced in 这个国家，还需要走importation board进入本国吗？-----无关选项
B）这个才是在讲agency本身的，如果这个agency的效率高的话，每天的总量就大了，revenue就高了~~~~如果效率低得话~~~~~，maintaining 的cost应该是固定成本，所以~~~~
C）maybe。但是也没什么关系，这是讲的exporter可能会减少进出口的量
D) if there are some cheese nenver rejected, they are good cheese.
E) 一般就扔了吧，还能怎么做？关键是这个产生的cost对于agency来说才是negligible

选B ，i think

sdcar2010

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The logic behind the argument is that - although the board only rejects 1% of total shipment, it forces the manufactures to make sure the other 99% are above the standard. If you do not have the board, all the manufacture can cheat and produce below standard cheese, which would cost a much larger economic loss than maintaining the board.

In an analogy, we need the presence of police to make sure the citizens behave nicely.  Without the police, everyone can be tempted to become a thief in daylight.  Thus, paying the police is a logical conclusion and an economically sound one.