Editor: Articles in Gardening Magazine often spur sales of the plants they describe, particularly among people new to gardening. Accordingly, we will no longer publish articles or accept advertisements praising the beauty of rare wildflowers. Most such plants sold to gardeners have been difficult to propagate under cultivation, so plant sellers often collect them in the wild. Our new policy is part of our efforts to halt this yearly plundering of our native plant populations.
Which of the following, if true, casts the most doubt on the wisdom of the magazine's new policy as a way of pursuing the intended effect?
1. Finland imposes a high tariff on the export of unprocessed hazel nuts in order to ensure that the nuts are sold to domestic processing plants. If the tariff were lifted and unprocessed hazel were sold at world market prices, more farmers could profit by growing hazels. Nevertheless, 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 ten years. 削弱 A. Some of the by-products of processing hazels are used for manufacturing plants and plastics. B. Other countries in which hazels are processed subsidize their processing plants. C. More people in Finland are engaged in farming hazels than in processing them. D. Buying unprocessed hazels at lower than would market prices enables hazel processors in Finland to sell processed nuts at competitive prices. E. A lack of profitable crops in driving an increasing number of small farmers in Finland off their land and into the cities. 答案是E.
2. The imposition of quotas limiting imported iron will not help the big Chinese ironmills. In fact, the quotas will help "mini-mills" flourish in the China. Those small domestic mills will take more business from the big Chinese ironmills than would have been taken by the foreign ironmills in the absense of quotas. 削弱最后一句话 A. Quality rather than price is a major factor in determining the type of iron to be used for a particular application. B. Foreign ironmills have long produced grades of steel comparable in quality to the iron produced by the big Chinese mills. C. Chinese quotas on imported goods have often induced other countries to impose similar quotas on Chinese goods. D. Domestic "mini-mills" consistently produce better grades of iron than do the big Chinese mills. E. Domestic "mini-mills" produce low-volume, specialized types of iron that are not produced by the big Chinese steel mills. 答案是E.
3. Editor: Articles in Gardening Magazine often encourage sales of the plants they describe, especially among people new to gardening. Therefore, we will not publish articles or accept advertisements praisng the beauty of rare wildflowers any more. Most such plants sold to gardeners have been difficult to propagate under cultivation; consequently, plant sellers often collect them in the wild. Our new policy is part of our efforts to cease this yearly plundering of our native plant populations.
削弱the wisdom of the magazine's new policy as a way of pursuing the intended effect
A. When people new to gardening buy plants, they often fall to take adequate care of the plants that they buy and become discouraged from buying those varieties again. B. Plant sellers who sell rare wildflowers have no reasonably inexpensive alternative way to offer their wares directly to new gardeners. C. The demand for rare wildflowers rarely exceeds the number of such plants that can be collected in the wild by plant sellers. D. The propagation of rare wildflowers often depends on the plants' interaction with other organisms in their environment, such as plants that create suitable soil conditions or insects and birds that disperse seeds. E. Revenues from sales of plants collected in the wild are supporting the discovery of new law-cost techniques enabling rare wildflowers to be readily propagated in nurseries. 答案是E