首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Because agriculture is so important to a nation’s well-being, governments have always been concerned with it. For example, the U
Because agriculture is so important to a nation’s well-being, governments have always been concerned with it. For example, the U
admin
2014-02-27
66
问题
Because agriculture is so important to a nation’s well-being, governments have always been concerned with it. For example, the United States and Canada have long produced surpluses that complicate their economies. Surpluses tend to lower prices to farmers and seriously endanger the agriculture industry. Governments have instituted systems of price supports to maintain a fair price when surpluses cause prices to drop. The system in the United States is a good example. A government program supports the prices paid to farmers for grains, and other agricultural products.
Support prices are based on parity, which is the ratio between the prices farmers receive for their crops and the prices they must pay for things they need. The government selected the period from 1910 to 1914 as a time when farm prices were in a fair ratio with farming costs. This is the base period now used to determine parity prices.
The idea is to assure farmers that what they get for a bushel of wheat will buy the same amount of, say, seed as it did in the years of the base period; if prices drop too far below this ideal the government can help in a number of ways. For example, it may buy much of a surplus at parity prices. Governments have instituted a wide variety of other controls for prices and, also, for farm output, mainly at the request of the farmers themselves. Farm prices tend to fluctuate more than other prices do, and the incomes of farmers fluctuate along with farm prices.
Various measures for maintaining farm prices and incomes include tariff or import levies, import quotas, export subsidies, direct payment to farmers, and limitations on production. All of these measures are useful and are used to some extent by most developed countries. An important example of such a program is the soil-bank plan, which aimed at limiting production while improving farmland.
The European Economic Community(EEC)established a common agricultural policy(CAP)for its member nations, called the Common Market countries. The aim is to create free trade for individual commodities within the community. When production of a commodity exceeds EEC consumption, the EEC may buy the excess for storage, pay to have it reprocessed, or export it to countries outside the Common Market. In this way the EEC can maintain its members’ farm prices at levels equal to or even higher than those in such market-competitive nations as the United States and Canada.
According to the passage, the parity system is used to______.
选项
A、encourage farmers to produce more grains in the future
B、lower the cost of producing agricultural product
C、determine the prices below which grains will not be sold
D、ensure that the farmers’ interest is properly protected
答案
D
解析
这是一道细节题。题干中的信号词为parity,出自文章第二段第一句话中。文章第二段指出:平价制度是指农民销售其农产品的价格与他们购买所需物品必须支付的价格之比。第三段指出:价格补贴的目的是为了向农民保证,他们销售一蒲式耳小麦的所得可以购买相同数量的种子;如果价格远低于这个理想价格,政府就会以各种方式帮助他们。这说明,平价制度用来保护农民的利益。D说“确保农民的利益得到适当的保护”,这与文章的意思符合。文中没有提到A和B。与C有关的信息是第三段的第一句话,文中是说“如果价格远低于这个理想价格,政府就会以各种方式帮助他们”,并不是说农产品不能低于某个价格出售,所以C不对。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/HHO4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
AnunendingflowofprivateandpubliccriticismsuggeststhatthepeopleoftheUnitedStatessuffer【C1】______government,natio
AnunendingflowofprivateandpubliccriticismsuggeststhatthepeopleoftheUnitedStatessuffer【C1】______government,natio
Her______shouldnotbeconfusedwithmiserliness;aslongasIhaveknownher,shehasalwaysbeenwillingtoassistthosewhoa
Dinosaurswerereptileswhichbecameextinctabout65millionyearsago.Themost【C1】______questionaboutdinosaurshasalwaysb
ItisincongruousthatthenumberofBritishinstitutionsofferingMBAcoursesshouldhavegrownby254percentduringaperiod
ItisincongruousthatthenumberofBritishinstitutionsofferingMBAcoursesshouldhavegrownby254percentduringaperiod
Thetermmassagetherapy(alsocalledmassage,forshort;massagealsoreferstoanindividualtreatmentsession)coversagroup
ThehistoryofAfrican—Americansduringthepast400yearsistraditionallynarrated【1】anongoingstruggleagainst【2】andindiffe
Ineverycultivatedlanguagetherearetwogreatclassesofwordswhich,takentogether,comprisesthewholevocabulary.First,
Ineverycultivatedlanguagetherearetwogreatclassesofwordswhich,takentogether,comprisesthewholevocabulary.First,
随机试题
茶具这一概念最早出现于西汉时期王褒《僮约》中“武阳买茶,烹茶尽具”。
甲带着自己饲养的藏獒在城市居民小区散步,乙和幼子丙在路上遇到甲,丙拿手中的香肠喂藏獒,结果被咬伤。对此,下列说法正确的是:()
在防水混凝土中加入引气剂的好处不包括()。
一个完整的预警管理体系应包括外部环境预警系统、内部管理不良预警系统、预警信息管理系统、()系统四部分。
本工程隐框玻璃幕墙用的中空玻璃第一道和第二道密封胶应分别采用( )。对本工程的后置埋件,应进行现场( )试验。
古希腊成就最高的三位悲剧作家是()。
卧薪尝胆:勾践
间接故意:指行为人明知自己的行为会发生危害社会的结果,并有意放任,以致发生这种结果的心理态度。下列属于间接故意的是()。
Hardworkhas______thewastehillintogreenfield.
【S1】【S5】
最新回复
(
0
)