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这是一个极具考研特色的题目，请同学们认真分析下题中的选项。

Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty. Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could re-create the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the US, when the Standard Oil trust was broken up. The mergers of telecom companies, such as World Com, hardly seem to bring higher prices for consumers or a reduction in the pace of technical progress. On the contrary, the price of communications is coming down fast. In cars, too, concentration is increasing — witness Daimler and Chrysler, Renault and Nissan — but it does not appear that consumers are being hurt.

65. From paragraph 4 we can infer that ________.

[A] the increasing concentration is certain to hurt consumers

[B] WorldCom serves as a good example of both benefits and costs

[C] the costs of the globalization process are enormous

[D] the Standard Oil trust might have threatened competition

Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty. Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could re-create the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the US, when the Standard Oil trust was broken up. The mergers of telecom companies, such as World Com, hardly seem to bring higher prices for consumers or a reduction in the pace of technical progress. On the contrary, the price of communications is coming down fast. In cars, too, concentration is increasing — witness Daimler and Chrysler, Renault and Nissan — but it does not appear that consumers are being hurt.

目前证明这股合并浪潮是带来利还是弊的实例并不多。但是很难想像当今的几个石油公司的合并是否会重新造成约100年前美国标准石油公司对竞争造成的同样的威胁，那时由于人们对该公司的这种担心而导致了它最终的解散。像世界通讯这样的通讯公司合并似乎没有给消费者带来更高的价格，或者降低技术进步的速度。相反，通信的价格在迅速下降。在汽车行业，合并也同样在增加——比如戴姆勒与克莱斯勒，雷诺与尼桑的合并——但消费者看起来并未受到伤害。

65. From paragraph 4 we can infer that ________.

[A] the increasing concentration is certain to hurt consumers

[B] WorldCom serves as a good example of both benefits and costs

[C] the costs of the globalization process are enormous

[D] the Standard Oil trust might have threatened competition

题型识别：段落推理题

题干定位：定位第四段

思路解析：段落推理题通常用选项和原文一一对应，逐个排除。

选项分析: [A] the increasing concentration is certain to hurt consumers

错误之处在于：is certain to …文中明确说道对于并购的优点和缺点的例子都还不是很充分。并且很多例子都说明了并购会带来很多好处而不是一定会伤害消费者。

[B] WorldCom serves as a good example of both benefits and costs

错误之处在于：worldcom 这个例子只能说明并购的好处而不能说明并购的坏处。

[C] the costs of the globalization process are enormous

错误之处在于：文中没有谈及全球化进程的花费是否巨大。

[D] the Standard Oil trust might have threatened competition

这个选项是很典型的考研难题的选项，很多同学都会说找不到依据，不知道怎么得出这个答案的。

直白的讲：这里的答案改写，按已知的信息来讲我也是不认同的，这个选项是这四个选项中有可能错误最少的。

其实这个选项是可以一定正确的：因为用到了might have (有可能)，可能性在文中明确否定的情况外，是可以一直存在的，并且文中确实没有否定这件事情的可能性，并且在文中也谈到了，the Standard oil trust 这家公司。所以这里应该是最佳的选项

还是需要给同学们强调：最佳选项的概念!

所谓最佳选项是就一个题目中的四个选项而言的，而不是和其他题目相比的。

这样的选项很有可能在其他题目中就不是最佳选项了。