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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。

yongjiew

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.

SDty8

文中的意思是，因为有1%的疏忽率和未减少的agency花费，所以就判定这个agency的存在花费大于利益。C选项说，因为这个Board的检查导致很多不合格产品的出口商不再向该国出口，所以这个选项提出了文中没有涉及的benefit，就是检查带来的利益不仅仅限于被检查出来的这些不合格产品，还来源于潜在的妄图向该国进口不合格的产品不敢再向该国进口，这不就既减少了检查花费，又减少了健康危害吗~所以选C