求助prep2 18

queenie924

18.

The Calex Telecommunications Company is planning to introduce cellular telephone service into isolated coastal areas of Caladia, a move which will require considerable investment.  However, the only significant economic activity in these areas is small-scale coffee farming, and none of the coffee farmers make enough money to afford the monthly service fees that Calex would have to charge to make a profit.  Nevertheless, Calex contends that making the service available to these farmers will be profitable.
Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest support for Calex's contention?
(A) Currently, Caladian coffee farmers are forced to sell their coffee to local buyers at whatever price those buyers choose to pay because the farmers are unable to remain in contact with outside buyers who generally offer higher prices.
(B) In the coastal areas of Caladia where Calex proposes to introduce cellular telephone service, there is currently no fixed-line telephone service because fixed-line companies do not believe that they could recoup their investment.
(C) A cellular telephone company can break even with a considerably smaller number of subscribers than a fixed-line company can, even in areas such as the Caladian coast, where there is no difficult terrain to drive up the costs of installing fixed lines.
(D) Calex bases its monthly fees for cellular telephone service in a given region partly on the cost of installing the necessary equipment to provide the service there.
(E) Calex has for years made a profit on cellular telephone service in Caladia's capital city, which is not far from the coastal region.
在A和C之间挣扎了好久，最后还是选了C。答案是A。
觉得A和C都不是很好，也不直接, 都需要imagine的成分。

我想C错就应该在那个break even上把，直接和profitable相斥了，错的明显了，所以A就稍微好些了。希望NN可以指点迷津，还有8天考试，看来得破罐破摔了 阿弥陀佛

laihuiyuan

并非是成本问题, C的错误关键在于irrelavant. 典型的干扰选项.

手机运营商坚定相信他们将来能够赚钱，也就是相信将来农民一定能赚更多的钱支付的起，而现在农民支付不起，所以答案必定是说农民将来一定能挣更多的钱，这样一看只有A合适，C什么座机公司投资什么的当然都是无关选项

logowuyi

C选项错误的原因是：break up在财务中指“保本”，即收入=成本，而原文题干中说的

是profitable，即收入>成本。两者不同

queenie924

这个题目stuck我的地方就是一遍看完没有选项是直接说明的。感觉A需要“想很多”，c也需要“想很多”。比如a, 要成立就必须假设“有了通讯，农民一定会卖出去，而且不会通过中介。”“且，赚的多了”。

当时我排除a的最大一个concern就是题目的着眼点在电信公司投资。而a说的是农民的收入，两者并没有明确的关系。C的话直接和电信公司的利益挂钩。由于时间紧就选了C。

IMARCUS

虽然某闭塞地区农民赚的钱少于电话费，电信公司投资费也很高，但仍决定在此投资，是因为？

A 因为闭塞，农民没有办法与外界联系。 只能卖给某中介商（中介商买走，再出去卖给别人。中介商定价，农民必须接受，因为他们没有别的办法卖。>>造成中介商压价，农民收入很低）
如果有了通讯，农民可以卖到外界了，那么就不会再低价卖给中介，而是直接以市场价格卖到外界。农民赚钱多了，就可以付花费了，公司就赚钱了

（这其实是个经济学现象，在很多领域都有，我上课正好学过一篇文章，讲孤岛上的渔夫。他们的鱼运不出去，必须低价卖给有大鱼船有冰库的收购商。）

C 这个电话公司比固定电话公司 能与小数量的订户决裂， 即使是在想C那样的地方、、
说实话我没看大懂什么意思。 不过fixed-line company明显是无关的啊。。题目里根本没有，怎么能解释题目呢

weixuan

确实是A，
farmer们能通过cellurar telephone提高议价能力，所以他们就能afford（这个词原文有，所以关键）service price ,所以“will be profitable"