国防部的分析家担心，如果机械用具制造工业进一步萎缩，会严重地威胁到美国进行一场长时期战争的能力。然而在国防部公开地把这个安全问题同进口配额问题联系起来之前，机械用具工业在为进口配额的请愿活动中已经提出了国家安全问题。 以下哪项，如果是正确的，能最有力地解释机械用具制造工业将该问题提高到有关国家安全的高度

A．当飞机制造业重新装备机械用具时，为机械用具制造者提供了大量的工作机会。

B．国防部只是轻微地关注国外竞争对机械用具工业的影响。

C．机械用具工业在以除国防之外的其他理由来获得政府保护而防止进口冲击的过程中遭到了困难。

D．一些对国防来说比较重要的武器是由那些不需要机械深加工的零件组成的。

E．已经设立了一些能使国内机械用具制造公司成功地同国外制造商竞争的联邦政府计划。

The idea that some groups of people may be more intelligent than others is one of those hypotheses that dare not speak its name. But Gregory Cochran is (1) to say it anyway. He is that (2) bird, a scientist who works independently (3) any institution. He helped popularize the idea that some diseases not (4) thought to have a bacterial cause were actually infections, which aroused much controversy when it was first suggested.

(5) he, however, might tremble at the (6) of what he is about to do. Together with another two scientists, he is publishing a paper which not only (7) that one group of humanity is more intelligent than the others, but explains the process that has brought this about. The group in (8) are a particular people originated from central Europe. The process is natural selection.

This group generally do well in IQ test, (9) 12-15 points above the (10) value of 100, and have contributed (11) to the intellectual and cultural life of the West, as the (12) of their elites, including several world-renowned scientists, (13) . They also suffer more often than most people from a number of nasty genetic diseases, such as breast cancer. These facts, (14) , have previously been thought unrelated. The former has been (15) to social effects, such as a p tradition of (16) education. The latter was seen as a (an) (17) of genetic isolation. Dr. Cochran suggests that the intelligence and diseases are intimately (18) . His argument is that the unusual history of these people has (19) them to unique evolutionary pressures that have resulted in this (20) state of affairs.

16（）

A.assessing

B.supervising

C.administering

D.valuing