Large national budget deficits do not cause large trade deficits. If they did, countries with the largest budget deficits would also have the largest trade deficits. In fact, when deficit figures are adjusted so that different countries are reliably comparable to each other, there is no such correlation.
If the statements above are all true, which of the following can properly be inferred on the basis of them?
Countries with large national budget deficits tend to restrict foreign trade.
Reliable comparisons of the deficit figures of one country with those of another are impossible.
Reducing a country's national budget deficit will not necessarily result in a lowering of any trade deficit that country may have.
When countries are ordered from largest to smallest in terms of population, the smallest countries generally have the smallest budget and trade deficits.
Countries with the largest trade deficits never have similarly large national budget deficits.
并没有提及comparison
演绎推理
not necessarily 未必 不一定
演绎推理 错选E.......
never太绝对
will not NECESSARILY
Q: the conclusion: countries with the largest budget deficits would ''not'' also have the largest trade deficits.
I wrongly choose the option E, and I guess ''never'' is too absolute to become an optimal choice.
But, I can not understand the choice C, which seems a little irrelevant. So, is it a just paraphrase of the conclusion?
这种演绎推理的考题,不是让我们选择和文章“相关”的,而是让我们选择能从文章中“保真”推理出的选项。
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