Partly because of bad weather, but also partly because some major pepper growers have switched to high-priced cocoa, world production of pepper has been running well below worldwide sales for three years. Pepper is consequently in relatively short supply. The price of pepper has soared in response: it now equals that of cocoa.

10.   Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

(A) Pepper is a profitable crop only if it is grown on a large scale.

(B) World consumption of pepper has been unusually high for three years.

(C) World production of pepper will return to previous levels once normal weather returns.

(D) Surplus stocks of pepper have been reduced in the past three years.（D）

(E) The profits that the growers of pepper have made in the past three years have been unprecedented.

Why is E not correct?

The profits since three years ago were keeping increasing but not being unprecedently high all the time during the past three years.

I choose D

E说种pepper的利润在过去三年是空前的。

这不对。题目没有提到成本，只知道价格，无从谈及利润。

应该是D，库存下降

A：大量种植有利润－－错

B：过去三年pepper的消耗量大－－－错是种的人少了

C：产量会回到过去的水平只要天气好－－－错和天气没关系，人们不种是因为价格低