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In the 1920s, demand for American farm products fell, as European countries began to recover from World War I and instituted aus
In the 1920s, demand for American farm products fell, as European countries began to recover from World War I and instituted aus
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In the 1920s, demand for American farm products fell, as European countries began to recover from World War I and instituted austerity(紧缩)programs to reduce their imports. The result was a sharp drop in farm prices. This period was more disastrous for farmers than earlier times had been, because farmers were no longer self-sufficient. They were paying for machinery, seed, and fertilizer, and they were also buying consumer goods. The prices of the items farmers bought remained constant, while prices they received for their products fell. These developments were made worse by the Great Depression, which began in 1929 and extended throughout the 1930s.
In 1929, under President Herbert Hoover, the Federal Farm Board was organized. It established the principle of direct interference with supply and demand, and it represented the first national commitment to provide greater economic stability for farmers.
President Hoover’s successor attached even more importance to this problem. One of the first measures proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he took office in 1933 was the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which was subsequently passed by Congress. This law gave the Secretary of Agriculture the power to reduce production through voluntary agreements with farmers who were paid to take their land out of use. A deliberate scarcity of farm products was planned in an effort to raise prices. This law was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on the grounds that general taxes were being collected to pay one special group of people. However, new laws were passed immediately that achieved the same result of resting soil and providing flood-control measures, but which were based on the principle of soil conservation. The Roosevelt Administration believed that rebuilding the nation’s soil was in the national interest and was not simply a plan to help farmers at the expense of other citizens. Later the government guaranteed loans to farmers so that they could buy farm machinery, hybrid(杂交)grain, and fertilizers.
What brought about the decline in the demand for American farm products?
选项
A、The impact of the Great Depression.
B、The shrinking of overseas markets.
C、The destruction caused by the First World War.
D、The increased exports of European countries.
答案
B
解析
本题问的是美国农产品需求量下降的原因。文章第1段第1句就指出,欧洲国家从第一次世界大战中恢复过来并且制定了紧缩农产品进口量的计划,导致20世纪20年代美国农产品需求量下降。因此,引起对美国农产品需求量下降的原因是由于海外市场的收缩,即欧洲国家经济的复苏及其紧缩进口量的计划。B项是这一因果关系的关键。A项只是使这一现象加重的原因,C、D则明显与短文内容相悖。答案为B项。
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