Goronianlawmaker: Goronia's Cheese ImportationBoard, the agency responsible for inspecting all wholesale shipments of cheeseentering Goronia from abroad and rejecting shipments that fail to meetspecified standards, rejects about one percent of the cheese that itinspects. Since the health consequencesand associated costs of not rejecting that one percent would be negligible,whereas the cost of maintaining the agency is not, the agency's cost clearlyoutweighs the benefits it provides.
Knowingthe answer to which of the following would be most useful in evaluating thelawmaker's argument?
A.Are any of the types of cheeses that are imported into Goronia also produced inGoronia?
B.Has the Cheese Importation Board, over the last several years, reduced itsoperating costs by eliminating inefficiencies within the agency itself?
C.Does the possibility of having merchandise rejected by the Cheese ImportationBoard deter many cheese exporters from shipping substandard cheese to Goronia?
D.Are there any exporters of cheese to Goronia whose merchandise is neverrejected by the Cheese Importation Board?
E.How is the cheese rejected by the Cheese Importation Board disposed of?
答案选C 请讲解下原因。作者: yongjiew 时间: 2012-5-2 06:45
C
The logic behind the argument is that - although the board only rejects
1% of total shipment, it forces the manufactures to make sure the other
99% are above the standard. If you do not have the board, all the
manufacture can cheat and produce below standard cheese, which would
cost a much larger economic loss than maintaining the board.
In an analogy, we need the presence of police to make sure the citizens
behave nicely. Without the police, everyone can be tempted to become a
thief in daylight. Thus, paying the police is a logical conclusion and
an economically sound one.作者: SDty8 时间: 2012-5-3 20:13
