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请教大全2的03,05,06闭塞了,想不通

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楼主
发表于 2005-8-13 01:32:00 | 只看该作者

请教大全2的03,05,06闭塞了,想不通

Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal idea of the economic market when he said that the free enterprise system is the most efficient economic system. Maximum freedom means maximum productiveness; our “openness” is to be the measure of our stability. Fascination with this ideal has made Americans defy the “Old World” categories of settled possessiveness versus unsettling deprivation, the cupidity of retention versus the cupidity of seizure, a “status quo” defended or attacked. The United States, it was believed, had no status quo ante. Our only “station” was the turning of a stationary wheel, spinning faster and faster. We did not base our system on property but opportunity—which meant we based it not on stability but on mobility. The more things changed, that is, the more rapidly the wheel turned, the steadier we would 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 (a touch of: 有一点) instability and change in which to scramble for (scramble for: v.争夺, 勉强拼凑) the things they have not. But Americans imagined a condition in which speculators, self-makers, runners are always using the new opportunities given by our land. These economic leaders (front-runners) would thus be mainly agents of change. The nonstarters were considered the ones who wanted stability, a strong referee to give them some position in the race, a regulative hand to calm manic speculation; an authority that can call things to a halt, begin things again from compensatorily staggered “starting lines.”


Reform” in America has been sterile because it can imagine no change except through the extension of this metaphor of a race, wider inclusion of competitors, a piece of the action,” as it were, for the disenfranchised. There is no attempt to call off the race. Since our only stability is change, America seems not 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), no stable industrial work force of the people who actually make the system work. There is no pride in being an employee (Wilson asked for a return to the time when everyone was an employer). There has been no boasting about our social workers—they are merely signs of the system’s failure, of opportunity denied or not taken, of things to be eliminated. We have no pride in our growing interdependence, in the fact that our system can serve others, that we are able to help those in need; empty boasts from the past make us ashamed of our present achievements, make us try to forget or deny them, move away from them. There is no honor but in the Wonderland (wonderland: n.仙境, 奇境) race we must all run, all trying to win, none winning in the end (for there is no end).


这篇就是错了这3道,想不通,问问大家,


3. In the context of the author’s discussion of regulating change, which of the following could be most probably regarded as a “strong referee” (line 30) in the United States?


(A) A school principal


(B) A political theorist


(C) A federal court judge


(D) A social worker(C)


               (E) A government inspector  E===C


信息在兰色high light部分,只是知道这些referee是比较有power的,思前想后,ABD不选,为什么不选E?


5.     It can be inferred from the passage that the author most probably thinks that giving 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 genuine social reform  C===B


(D) a monument to the efforts of industrial reformers(B)


(E) a surprisingly “Old World” remedy for social ills


灰色部分,为什么B?何来example,何来resistance to profound social change???


6.     Which of the following metaphors could the author most appropriately use to summarize his own assessment of the American economic system (lines 35-60)?


(A) A windmill


(B) A waterfall


(C) A treadmill


(D) A gyroscope  D===C(C)


(E) A bellows


最后一段,完全不懂,随便选的,这道怎么做啊,怎么回事?


沙发
发表于 2005-8-13 09:46:00 | 只看该作者

3,strong referee 可以给nonstarters一定的position in the race,最好是从法律上的规定会更有效力,而government inspector,是政府官员,没有法律效力。


5,Reform” in America has been sterile because ....所以灰色部分也是说明美国的改革只是表面的,是没有结果的。


6,在美国的经济体系里,每个人都在拼命赛跑,但没有终点。所以选treadmill,是靠人力驱动的。而其他几个选项都是靠非人力驱动的。


个人意见,仅供参考。

板凳
 楼主| 发表于 2005-8-13 10:30:00 | 只看该作者

5.还是不明白啊,怎么是an example of Americans’ resistance to profound social change


即使说》说明美国的改革只是表面的,是没有结果的,那也怎么是resistance to profound social change,

地板
发表于 2005-8-13 15:29:00 | 只看该作者
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