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题库 / Prep2007E1-CR-42
Editorial:
Regulations recently imposed by the government of Risemia call for unprecedented reductions in the amounts of pollutants manufacturers are allowed to discharge into the environment. It will take costly new pollution control equipment requiring expensive maintenance to comply with these regulations. Resultant price increases for Risemian manufactured goods will lead to the loss of some export markets. Clearly, therefore, annual exports of Risemian manufactured goods will in the future occur at diminished levels.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument in the editorial?
The need to comply with the new regulations will stimulate the development within Risemia of new pollution control equipment for which a strong worldwide demand is likely to emerge.
The proposed regulations include a schedule of fines for noncompliance that escalate steeply in cases of repeated noncompliance.
Savings from utilizing the chemicals captured by the pollution control equipment will remain far below the cost of maintaining the equipment.
By international standards, the levels of pollutants currently emitted by some of Risemia's manufacturing plants are not considered excessive.
The stockholders of most of Risemia's manufacturing corporations exert substantial pressure on the corporations to comply with environmental laws.
产品的价格变高（保护环境使用昂贵设备导致） → 出口减少
求削弱，也就是使用昂贵设备导致产品价格变高并不会使出口减少
A选项：符合新规定的需要将会刺激新的污染控制设备的发展，全球范围内的需求很可能会出现
有需求，则说明出口不会减少
loss of SOME export markets 不能说明 annual exports of (ALL) manufactured goods will dimish. 也许有一些goods会因此而增加销量呢？
c感觉更合理啊
saving一直小于cost，更加印证没有竞争力
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choice a does just that: it says that the new pollution-control equipment will create a new market, which will then offset the loss of the old markets.
the passage goes from
'the loss of some export markets'
to
'annual exports of ... goods will ... diminish'
that's a logical leap. in particular, the hidden assumption is that no other export markets will step up to take the place of the ones that will be lost. if we can find an answer choice that contradicts this assumption, we can weaken the argument.
A说的是pollution control equipment会卖的好，但是原文中提的是manufactured goods啊。
这题错了，仔细想了一下，只有A最合适，其他四个选项都不对，A比较牵强，说的这个机器在世界范围内需求很大，也许政策刺激可以使机器更先进，从而出口到海外，因此出口量未必会降低。也许这个机器很贵所以cover其他出口量减少的商品的总额呢。
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