- (e) irrelevant: the question asks us to undermine the politician's suggestion, not to suggest an alternative. (analogy: if you think that eating only big macs will help you lose weight, i can't convince you otherwise by suggesting alternate diets)
E提出了另外一个可行方案，但是本题需要讨论这个方案，其他方案是无关选项
the phrase near-peak.
this means that the manufacturing sector can't increase output by very much at all (this is what 'peak output' means).
if the manufacturing sector can't meaningfully increase output, then it won't be able to produce a big increase in exports, because there won't be any extra stuff to export.
生产力已经在峰值了，不可能生产出更多产品用于出口，没得东西卖还谈什么增长
geologists assumed that ...generate heat through friction as they grind past each other, but …H found that temperatures…
D、suggested that geologists had inaccurately assumed that...这表明地质学家错误地认为...
have yet to尚未 还没有
Geologists therefore wondered whether the friction between the plates was being reduced by pockets of pressurized water within the fault that push the plates away from each other
目前仍然没有明确的理论可以解释那些消失的热量
However, the real GDP is almost always higher than ever before; it falls only during recessions. One point these journalists overlooked is that in 1997, as in the twenty-four years immediately preceding it, the real GDP per capita grew nearly one-half percent a year more slowly than it had on average between 1873 and 1973.
preceding, 1873-1973,
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D，如果要说event的两个性质，那么是an event that……and that；an event that and it……表示and it和另一个独立句“星星撞上北美”并列，it会指代到星星。