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5. Itcan be inferred from the passage that the author most probably thinks thatgiving the disenfranchised “a piece of the action” (line 38) is
(A) a compassionate, if misdirected,legislative measure
(B) an example of Americans’ resistance to profound social change
(C) an innovative program for genuinesocial reform
(D) a monument to the efforts of industrialreformers（B）
(E) a surprisingly “Old World” remedy for social ills
首先题意是 infer作者对于 disenfranchised “a piece of action”是什么。。。
定位于原文的那句话是
“Reform” in America has been sterile[lshy1] （贫瘠的，无效果的） because it can imagine nochange except through the extension of this metaphor of a race, wider inclusionof competitors, “a piece of the action,” as it were, for thedisenfranchised.
这句话的前面部分很好理解---改革在美国是无果的，因为它除了xxx，xxx，xxx以外imagine no change。
但是后面的“a piece of action,” as it were, for the disenfranchised 这一段我非常的不能理解。。。具体的含义。
然后对于答案我也表示很难理解。an example of Americans’ resistance toprofound social change
一个 美国对于严重的社会改变的 抵抗（/抵抗力？）的举例
这个是啥意思？？？这句话说得是reform在美国行不通啊。
之后的一句话是 There is no attemptto call off the race. Since our only stability is change, America
seemsnot to honor the quiet work that achieves social interdependence and stability.没有试图结束比赛，因为我们的稳定是建立在改变（竞争.ect）之上的，所以xxxx
这文章的大意是讲美国的一个经济系统的理论，大概就是鼓励人们竞争，拼搏，努力自主争取胜利，说old word更倾向稳定，互相依赖BLABLA.而美国则是将稳定建立在不停地改变上的。
第二段则表示作者对于这种理论的不认同，说美国怎么怎么不认同互相依赖，不认同一成不变。怎么怎么样，最后一句说 之前经济腾飞让他们浮夸致使人们对目前的成果羞耻，说 实际上是人人在没有终点的路上赛跑，最终的结果是没人赢了。。。。
下面是全文。。。
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WoodrowWilson was referring to the liberal idea of the economic market when he saidthat the free enterprise system is the most efficient economic system. Maximumfreedom means maximum productiveness; our “openness” is to be the measure ofour stability. Fascination with this ideal has made Americans defy the “Old World” categories of settled possessivenessversus unsettling deprivation, thecupidity of retention versus thecupidity of seizure, a “status quo” defended or attacked. The United States
, it was believed, had no status quo ante. Our only “station” wasthe turning of a stationary wheel, spinning faster and faster. We did notbase our system on property but opportunity[w1] —which meant we based it not on stability but on mobility. The morethings changed, that is, the more rapidly the wheel turned, the steadier wewould be. The conventional picture of class politics is composed of the Haves,who want a stability to keep what they have, and the Have-Nots, who want a touch of instability and change in which to scramble for thethings they have not. But Americans imagined a condition in which speculators,self-makers, runners are always using the new opportunities given by ourland. These economic leaders (front-runners) would thus be mainly agentsof change. The nonstarters were considered the ones who wantedstability, a strongreferee to give them some position in the race, a regulative hand to calm manicspeculation; an authority that can call things to a halt,[w2] begin things again from compensatorily staggered “startinglines.”“Reform” in America
has been sterile[w3] because it can imagine no change except through the extension of thismetaphor of a race, wider inclusion of competitors, “a pieceof the action,” as it were, for the disenfranchised. There is no attempt tocall off the race. Since our only stability is change, America seemsnot to honor the quiet work that achieves social interdependence and stability.There is, in our legends, no heroism of the office clerk(office clerk: n.职员), nostable industrial work force of the people who actually makethe system work. There is no pride in being an employee (Wilson asked for a return to the time wheneveryone was an employer). There has been no boasting about our socialworkers—they are merely signs of the system’s failure, of opportunity denied ornot taken, of things to be eliminated. We have no pride in our growinginterdependence, in the fact that our system can serve others, that we are ableto help those in need; empty boasts from the past make us ashamed ofour present achievements, make us try to forget or deny them, move away fromthem. Thereis no honor but in the Wonderland (wonderland: n.仙境, 奇境) race we must all run, alltrying to win, none winning in the end (for there is no end).[w4]
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