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Suriland cannot both export wheat and keep bread plentiful and affordable in Suriland. Accordingly, Suriland’s wheat farmers are required to sell their crop to the government, which pays them a dollar per bushel less than the price on the world market. Therefore, if the farmers could sell their wheat on the world market, they would make a dollar per bushel more, less any additional transportation and brokerage costs they would have to pay.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
Suriland’s wheat farmers have higher production costs than do farmers in many other wheat- producing countries.
Sale of a substantial proportion of Suriland’s wheat crop on the world market would probably depress the price of wheat.
The transportation and brokerage costs that Suriland’s farmers would face if they sold their wheat outside Suriland could amount to almost a dollar per bushel.
Suriland is surrounded by countries that do not import any wheat.
The price of a bushel of wheat on the world market occasionally drops below the average cost of producing a bushel of wheat in Suriland.
C说在自由市场中卖的成本估计要达到$1,
而题干中说自由市场价格比本国政府价格高$1
这样不就相互抵消了，那么在自由市场卖就没有意义了
题目的“less any additional transportation and brokerage costs they would have to pay” ，这里less是介词，意为”减去，不计“，所以它是在已经减去这些成本的情况下多赚一美元，这些成本刚好一美元也就对它多赚多少没有影响
谢谢～所以真的是在为难我555，理解错题意
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即使世界市场上价格下降，政府不依然比世界市场的价格少1美元吗？不理解为啥选b
B项相当于是让结论不一定成立的干扰因吧，这里结论是“他们能多赚一美元（相对于在国内）”，感觉还是翻译的问题，这里make a dollar more就是“多赚”的意思，但是如果农民的小麦涌向世界市场导致供大于求，压低市价，最后的结果可能是入不敷出，赚不赚都是问题了，讨论的可能就是少亏一美元的事了。
也不知道我这角度靠不靠谱，最近CR贼迷～
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E的occasionally可以说有时候国外市场能赚到比卖给国内政府多，有时候少，综合起来，说不定卖到国外市场的total profit更多呢
没看懂题目里头less的意思，在B和C之间纠结最后选了C。
因果推理：如果农民能把小麦拿到国际市场上去，刨掉运输和中间商费用，能比卖给政府每bushel多挣1美元。
B反驳的点是：农民把小麦拿到国际市场上去卖以后，会导致国际市场上小麦的供需发生变化，使得小麦价格下跌，于是每bushel就不能多挣1美元了。
C是说农民把小麦拿到国际市场去卖，自己出的运输和中间商费用，会跟多挣的这1美元持平。但是题目里头说的是跑掉了运输和中间商费用了。
make a dollar per bushel more, less any additional transportation and brokerage costs they would have to pay. 这里的less是“减掉”的意思，这句话看懂了就不会选错了。
好吧，没读懂less是啥意思
果然occasionally真的不是個好選項
D--> Whether Suriland's wheat is sold to near or distant countries is immaterial to the argument; note that the conclusion includes the qualification less any additional transportation costs.
E --> This indicates that Suriland wheat farmers might sometimes lose money on their wheat if selling on the world market. This does not indicate that they would not lose less on the world wheat market than they would selling to the government.
substantial
a monthly salary of $2 000 less tax and insurance
第一句话没有读懂，稍微纠结了一下，两遍三遍没读懂就要放弃，继续往下走，千万不能被拖。考试的时候被任何题目拖了都是不值得的！！
同意
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句子理解：less除了可以做形容词/副词，还可以做介词，表示扣除
they would make a dollar per bushel more, less any additional transportation and brokerage costs they would have to pay.扣除额外的交通费、存储费后每bushel多赚亿美元
说了是扣除交通费后多赚1美元，C/D错
E，occasionally偶然下降，谁也抵挡不住偶然发生的事情，偶然地球还会爆炸呢，不在讨论范围内。occasionally/sometimes/most of/some of都需要特别注意其是否符合题干所述事件背景。
应该是扣除相关费用之前多赚一美元…
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我不是很懂为什么选b，说政府的支付价格比世界市场的价格低一美元，那如果世界市场上价格下降，政府价格就是不变的吗
B是一个推测但是constant的，E是客观存在的事实但是情况会fluctuate BE纠结了一会儿选了E，毕竟觉得事实会比推测好啊。。
这问题的核心是卖到外面会不会比卖到国内挣得差价多，不用在乎国外价格的问题，就算国外价格极低，但是政府价格更低
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this argument assumes that the world market price for wheat is fixed and would not be affected by introducing Suriland's wheat supply. That is, it is possible that the world market price per bushel for wheat might decline as a result of an increase in the wheat supply available on that market