1. GWD24-passage two抑制通货膨胀必然导致经济衰退么Is it possible to decrease inflation without causing a recession and its concomitant increase in unemployment? The orthodox answer is “no”. Whether they support the “inertia” theory of inflation(that today’s inflation rate is caused by yesterday’s inflation, the state of the economic cycle, and external influences such as import prices) or the “rational expectations” theory (that inflation is caused by workers’ and employers’ expectations, coupled with a lack of credible monetary and fiscal policies), most economists agree that tight monetary and fiscal policies, which cause recessions, are necessary to decelerate inflation. They point out that in the 1980’s, many European countries and the United States conquered high (by these countries’ standards) inflation, but only by applying tight monetary and fiscal policies that sharply increased unemployment. Nevertheless, some governments’ policymakers insist that direct controls on wages and process, without tight monetary and fiscal policies, can succeed in decreasing inflation. Unfortunately, because this approach fails to deal with the underlying causes of inflation, wage and price controls eventually collapse, the hitherto-repressed inflation resurfaces, and in the meantime, though the policy-makers succeed in avoiding a recession, a frozen structure of relative prices imposes distortions that do damage to the economy’s prospects for long-term growth.
24-10 The passage suggests that the high inflation in the United States and many European countries in the 1980’s differed from inflation elsewhere in which of the following ways? A) It fit the rational expectations theory of inflation but not the inertia theory of inflation. B) It was possible to control without causing a recession. C) It was easier to control in those countries by applying tight monetary and fiscal policies than it would have been elsewhere. D) It was not caused by workers’ and employers’ expectations. E) It would not necessarily be considered high elsewhere.
答案是E,为什么不是B呢,文中不是说了only by applying tight monetary and fiscal policies that sharply increased unemployment,又说了most economists agree that tight monetary and fiscal policies, which cause recessions 那么就是说这个tight monetary and fiscal policies 一般都会造成recessions,但在这两地方只造成increased unemployment,不是就很明显的说了他和别的地方不同的就是能在控制住通胀的同时不造成recession吗?!!??!!
我实在想不通为什么选E,求助啊。。。。。。。。。。。。。。 |