题目

Even though vegetable meal is nutritious to fish and less costly to use than anchovy meal, most fish farmers feed their fish only anchovy meal because fish prefer its taste and consequently gain weight faster. Farmed fish would gain weight faster still on a diet consisting of a new seafood product, butthis diet's advantages do not compensate for its additional cost . Nevertheless,   the product's developers predict that their product will be a commercially successful food for farmed fish .


Which of the following, if true, most helps to justify the developer's prediction?

选项

A.

Farmed fish prefer the taste of a mixture of the new product and vegetable meal over the taste of anchovy meal.

B.

In the wild, fish of the species that are commonly farmed have diets that are more similar in composition to the new product than to anchovy meal.

C.

A pound of the new product provides more calories to farmed fish than does a pound of anchovy meal.

D.

The new product can only be used as fish food whereas anchovy meal can be used for a varietyof other purposes.

E.

The new product will be sold at artificially low prices throughout an introductory period in order to entice fish farmers to use it at least once.

解析

尽管植物性饲料对鱼有营养且比鳀鱼饲料成本更低,但大多数养鱼户只给鱼喂鳀鱼饲料,因为鱼更喜欢其味道,从而增重更快。用一种新的海鲜产品组成的饲料能让养殖鱼增重更快,但这种饲料的优势不足以弥补其额外的成本。然而,该产品的开发者预测他们的产品将成为养殖鱼的商业上成功的饲料。 - **论据**:新海鲜产品虽能让鱼增重更快,但成本高,优势抵不过额外成本。 - **观点**:开发者仍预测其会成为商业上成功的养殖鱼饲料。 - **正确答案方向**:需要找到一个能说明该产品尽管有成本高这一劣势但仍能在商业上取得成功的原因,可能是在其他方面有足够吸引力让养鱼户愿意使用等。 - **A选项**:养殖鱼更喜欢新产品和植物性饲料的混合物的味道,而不是鳀鱼饲料的味道。这就给了养鱼户使用新产品的一个很强的动机,即使它有成本高的缺点,但因为鱼更喜欢其味道(可能会因此吃得更多进而增重等),所以养鱼户有可能会购买使用,从而使该产品在商业上有成功的可能性,该项正确。 - **B选项**:在野外,通常养殖的鱼的物种的饮食组成与新产品更相似,而不是与鳀鱼饲料相似。野外的饮食情况与养殖环境下养鱼户是否会使用该新产品并无直接关联,不能说明其商业上会成功,排除。 - **C选项**:一磅新产品比一磅鳀鱼饲料为养殖鱼提供更多卡路里。卡路里多并不一定能让养鱼户忽略其高成本而选择该产品,没有足够的说服力表明其商业上能成功,排除。 - **D选项**:新产品只能用作鱼饲料,而鳀鱼饲料有多种其他用途。这反而突出了新产品的局限性,不利于其商业成功,排除。 - **E选项**:新产品将在引入期以人为低价销售以吸引养鱼户至少使用一次。只吸引养鱼户使用一次并不足以保证其商业上的成功,不能解决后续因为成本高养鱼户可能不再使用的问题,排除。 综上所述,正确答案是A。
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