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by poonam1279 » Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:54 am
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.
(E) The profits that the growers of pepper have made in the past three years have been unprecedented.
D
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poonam1279 wrote: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.
(E) The profits that the growers of pepper have made in the past three years have been unprecedented.
D
The stimulus states that "pepper is consequently in relatively short supply". Since demand for pepper is much greater than supply, it can be inferred that supply is decreasing.

Thus (D)
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by bmlaud » Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:31 am
By Fact test

(A) Pepper is a profitable crop only if it is grown on a large scale. Don't know

(B) World consumption of pepper has been unusually high for three years. Don't know, actually supply is short

(C) World production of pepper will return to previous levels once normal weather returns. perhaps No, many farmers have switched to other crop.

(D) Surplus stocks of pepper have been reduced in the past three years. True, surplus stocks are exhausted.

(E) The profits that the growers of pepper have made in the past three years have been unprecedented. Don't know..

D
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by apple100 » Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:57 pm
bmlaud wrote:By Fact test

(A) Pepper is a profitable crop only if it is grown on a large scale. Don't know

(B) World consumption of pepper has been unusually high for three years. Don't know, actually supply is short

(C) World production of pepper will return to previous levels once normal weather returns. perhaps No, many farmers have switched to other crop.

(D) Surplus stocks of pepper have been reduced in the past three years. True, surplus stocks are exhausted.

(E) The profits that the growers of pepper have made in the past three years have been unprecedented. Don't know..

D
isn't "surplus stocks" extreme to infer from the passage?
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by ashley.com » Sun May 15, 2016 2:33 am
I believe the answer should be D
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