求解惑！杨继63篇-第6篇第7题

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题目问“This”的指代对象，觉得这句话是解释“Direct taxation of the samurai themselves wouldbe politically dangerous.”，所以选了C，答案是D。NN给看看？

         Whichof the following could best be substituted for the word “This” in line 47 without changing the meaning of the passage?

(A) The search of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunsfor solvency

(B) The importance of commerce in feudalJapan

(C) The unfairness of the tax structure ineighteenth century Japan

(D) The difficulty of increasing governmentincome by other means（D）

(E) The difficulty experienced by bothindividual samurai and the shogun himself in extricating themselves from debt

It wasdifficult for individual samurai overlords to increase their income because theamount of rice that farmers could be made to pay in taxes was not unlimited,and since the income of Japan’s central government consisted in part of taxescollected by the shogun from his huge domain, the government too wasconstrained. Therefore, the Tokugawa shoguns began to look to other sources forrevenue. Cash profits from government-owned mines were already on the declinebecause the most easily worked deposits of silver and gold had been exhausted,although debasement of the coinage had compensated for the loss. Opening up newfarmland was a possibility, but most of what was suitable had already beenexploited and further reclamation was technically unfeasible. Direct taxationof the samurai themselves would be politically dangerous. Thisleft the shoguns only commerce as a potential source of government income.