GDP一文

E、GDP增长

Citing the fact that the real gross

    domestic product (GDP) per capita was

    higher in 1997 than ever before, some

Line   journalists have argued that the United

  (5)  States economy performed ideally in

1997.  However, the real GDP is almost

always higher than ever before; it falls

only during recessions.  One point

these journalists overlooked(忽视) is that in

 (10)   1997, as in the twenty-four years imme-

diately preceding it, the real GDP per

capita grew nearly one-half percent a

year more slowly than it had on aver-

age between 1873 and 1973.  Were the

 (15)   1997 economy as robust(强健的) as claimed,

the growth rate of real GDP per capita

in 1997 would have surpassed(超过) the

average growth rate of real GDP per

capita between 1873 and 1973 because

 (20)   over fifty percent of the population

    worked for wages in 1997 whereas

    only forty percent worked for wages

between 1873 and 1973.  If the growth

rate of labor productivity (output per

 (25)   hour of goods and services) in 1997

had equaled its average growth rate

between 1873 and 1973 of more than

two percent, then, given the proportion-

ately(成比例地,相称地) larger workforce that existed in

 (30)   1997, real GDP per capita in 1997 would

have been higher than it actually was,

since output is a major factor in GDP.

    However, because labor productivity

grew by only one percent in 1997, real

(35)        GDP per capita grew more slowly in

1997 than it had on average between

Q36:

According to the passage, which of the following is true of the average rate at which real GDP per capita grew in the twenty-four years immediately before 1997?

1. It was less than it had been between 1873 and 1973 because only forty percent of the population worked for wages between 1873 and 1973.

2. It was less than it had been between 1873 and 1973 because labor productivity grew less between 1973 and 1997 than it had between 1873 and 1973.
3. It was less than it had been between 1873 and 1973 as a result of an increase in the percentage of the population earning wages during these years.

4. It was less than the average rate at which real GDP per capita grew between 1873 and 1973.

5. It was less than the rate at which real GDP per capita grew in 1997.

Answer: D