[問題] 沒人問過的一道題目 GWD 30-15

[misia]

Q15:

Kernland imposes a high tariff on the export of unprocessed cashew nuts in order to ensure that the nuts are sold to domestic processing plants. If the tariff were lifted and unprocessed cashews were sold at world market prices, more farmers could profit by growing cashews. However, 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 five years.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

A. Some of the by-products of processing cashews are used for manufacturing paints and plastics.

B. Other countries in which cashews are processed subsidize their processing plants.

C. More people in Kernland are engaged in farming cashews than in processing them.

D. Buying unprocessed cashews at lower than world market prices enables cashew processors in Kernland to sell processed nuts at competitive prices.

E. A lack of profitable crops is driving an increasing number of small farmers in Kernland off their land and into the cities.


這題答案給的是E, 為什麼不是C呢 ?

題目要求削弱,
我的想法是:
C選項說明了種腰果的人比加工腰果的人多,
所以加工腰果的人失業率並不會佔總失業率太高的比例,
政府降低失業率的努力也就不會太被抹煞了.

請問這樣子想是正確的嗎
非常希望板上的大家可以指導一番!
謝謝~

[eiswein]

Q15:

Kernland imposes a high tariff on the export of unprocessed cashew nuts in order to ensure that the nuts are sold to domestic processing plants. If the tariff were lifted and unprocessed cashews were sold at world market prices, more farmers could profit by growing cashews. However, 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 five years.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

A. Some of the by-products of processing cashews are used for manufacturing paints and plastics.

B. Other countries in which cashews are processed subsidize their processing plants.

C. More people in Kernland are engaged in farming cashews than in processing them.

D. Buying unprocessed cashews at lower than world market prices enables cashew processors in Kernland to sell processed nuts at competitive prices.

E. A lack of profitable crops is driving an increasing number of small farmers in Kernland off their land and into the cities.


這題答案給的是E, 為什麼不是C呢 ?

題目要求削弱,
我的想法是:
C選項說明了種腰果的人比加工腰果的人多,
所以加工腰果的人失業率並不會佔總失業率太高的比例,
政府降低失業率的努力也就不會太被抹煞了.

請問這樣子想是正確的嗎
非常希望板上的大家可以指導一番!
謝謝~

題目是要weaken the argument
是要讓政府知道如果不把tariff拿掉反而會造成urban失業率的提升
所以答案是E而不是C

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[misia]

謝謝回覆喔~
有茅塞頓開的感覺!!

[bigtin429]

我也覺得是e耶~~

題目的結論是:因為加工廠都在城市,移除關稅會嚴重阻礙政府降低失業率的努力

(腰果直接賣到國外,工人失業,失業率上升)

然後e的意思應該是在要說關稅沒移除,種作物(不一定指腰果)的農夫一樣不會賺

錢,所以放棄農地去城裡,也會造成失業率的上升

所以weaken了~~