请教新题63篇中passage 2的第一题

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).

1.     The primary
purpose of the passage is to

(A) criticize the inflexibility
of American economic mythology

(B) contrast “Old World” and
“New World” economic ideologies

(C) challenge the integrity of
traditional political leaders

(D) champion those Americans
whom the author deems to be neglected（A）

(E) suggest a substitute for the
traditional metaphor of a race

据说小安说这篇文章不用看，太偏。

文章的作者希望市场能够变的更加的彻底, 而令人失望的是,美国的市场改革只是隔靴搔痒.

第一段对比了过去的市场与free enterprise system

第二段讲了美国的市场改革做的不够,市场还是太僵硬

因此,作者主要批判的美国的市场缺乏变化