28-23: Goronian lawmaker: Goronia’s Cheese Importation Board, the agency responsible for inspecting all wholesale shipments of cheese entering Goronia from abroad and rejecting shipments that fail to meet specified standards, rejects about one percent of the cheese that it inspects. Since the health consequences and associated costs of not rejecting that one percent would be negligible, whereas the cost of maintaining the agency is not, the agency’s cost clearly outweighs the benefits it provides.

Knowing the answer to which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the lawmaker’s argument?

A: Are any of the types of cheeses that are imported into Goronia also produced in Goronia?

B: Has the Cheese Importation Board, over the last several years, reduced its operating costs by eliminating inefficiencies within the agency itself?

C: Does the possibility of having merchandise rejected by the Cheese Importation Board deter many cheese exporters from shipping substandard cheese to Goronia?

D: Are there any exporters of cheese to Goronia whose merchandise is never rejected by the Cheese Importation Board?

E: How is the cheese rejected by the Cheese Importation Board disposed of?

比较清楚,应该是C.

C,如果回答yes,则结论 the agency’s cost clearly outweighs the benefits it provides.受到削弱。

如果回答no,则结论the agency’s cost clearly outweighs the benefits it provides。获得支持。

选C。“你说这个委员会没啥用，只拒了1％的坏家伙。我说：委员会存在时，一大帮坏蛋压根就没敢来——起到震慑作用了，你能说这个委员会起的作用只是表面上的1％吗！！？？？”

Does the possibility of having merchandise rejected by the Cheese Importation Board deter many cheese exporters from shipping substandard cheese to Goronia?

这句话完全没有看懂。does the possibility of ... deter many cheese exports from shipping ...to Goronia?

总算搞懂了，其实GMAT还是考英语！