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Technological improvements and reduced equipment costs have made converting solar energy directly into electricity far more cost-efficient in the last decade. However, the threshold of economic viability for solar power (that is, the price per barrel to which oil would have to rise in order for new solar power plants to be more economical than new oil-fired power plants) is unchanged at thirty-five dollars.

Which of the following, if true, does most to help explain why the increased cost-efficiency of solar power has not decreased its threshold of economic viability?

正确答案: C

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[Helr题库] 关于Prep 2008 逻辑82题的疑问

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82. Technological improvements and reduced equipment costs have made converting solar energy directly into electricity far more cost-efficient in the last decade. However, the threshold of economic viability for solar power (that is, the price per barrel to which oil would have to rise in order for new solar power plants to be more economical than new oil-fired power plants) is unchanged at thirty-five dollars. Which of the following, if true, does most to help explain why the increased cost-efficiency of solar power has not decreased its threshold of economic viability?
A. The cost of oil has fallen dramatically.
B. The reduction in the cost of solar-power equipment has occurred despite increased raw material costs for that equipment.
C. Technological changes have increased the efficiency of oil-fired power plants.
D. Most electricity is generated by coal-fired or nuclear, rather than oil-fired, power plants. E. When the price of oil increases, reserves of oil not previously worth exploiting become economically viable.
正在用helr的逻辑笔记做Cr,受益匪浅
对这题有个疑问,为什么A不对,油价下降,火力发电就便宜,太阳能相对火电的经济可行性不就高了么?求大牛指点迷津阿!非常感谢!!
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发表于 2013-8-6 08:18:41 | 只看该作者
这题好像有帖子讨论过。我把我当时想的脑浆迸裂想出来的理由贴上来,有点多,耐心看啊:

科技的进步,器械花费的减少,使得直接转化太阳能到电能 更加 花费经济了在上个十年。但是,太阳能经济可行性的的临界值在35刀木有变。为毛上升的成本效益没有减少经济可行性临界值?

理解题意:
1.        threshold是门槛临界值的意思,这里理解成临界值肯定更贴切。
2.        括号里面,that is,that指代的是括号前面的一坨坨,是个of 短语,所以中心词是of 前面的东西,所以,that is后面解释的是threshold,临界值,而不是econ viability,也不是solar power。threshold is the price per barrel。然后后面一坨坨修饰这个price。 oil would have to rise to which (price=threshold) in order for new solar power plants to be more economical than new oil-fired power plants. 太阳能经济可行性的临界值就是一个油价,这个油价上升到临界值为了新太阳能工厂 更加经济比新 燃油工厂。

误区1:
我买车,2万到是我的 经济可行性临界值,超过2万我就不买了,低于2万我就买。汽车的价钱上升或降低到3万或者是1万都不影响我的 2万的经济可行性临界值,虽然我可以依据这个临界值做出买车的判断,3万了我就不买了,1万了我就买。我的 经济可行性临界值 是由我个人的经济能力的,也能是银行贷款利率,或者我的工资决定的,而不是由市场上车的价格决定的。

误区2(重要):
这道题里面,经济可行临界值是油价35刀,定义为当这两种工厂效率一样时的油价,经济临界值是35刀,我可以通过改变油价来改变临界值吗?这道题tricky的地方在于oil既是经济可行性的衡量标准,又好像跟oil-fired工厂效率还有点关系,因为这种工厂的名字里面有个oil,但实际上,这道题没有提供任何 关于 oil-fired工厂效率和oil price有关的证据,只提到了这个工厂的名字里有oil。于是,我们可能就想当然的吧oil-fired工厂的效率和oil价格联系起来了,好像是oil-fired工厂的生产程序里面有这么一项似得。但话说回来,这种假设是一定程度上合理的,因为毕竟衡量标准和oil fired工厂都和oil有关让我们浮想联翩。但是(重点来了),如果你假设oil fired 工厂效率和oil price有关,那么你怎么知道他和其他因素没有关呢,比如说管理方式改变啥的,所以充其量 oil price只是 效率的一个影响因素,效率是个函数,这个函数收到X,Y,Z,,,,等等因素的影响。所以说C说的是结果,就是效率增高,从而抵消太阳能厂的效率增高。这样子概念平行对等。分析起来也对。
个人觉得考试的时候肯定不能这么分析,考试的时候就选拐弯最少的选项,C看起来跟题目很般配啊。。实际上我还是选错了,选了A就没有再往下看。
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