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Woodrow Wilson wasreferring to the liberal idea of the economic market when he said that the freeenterprise system is the most efficient economic system. Maximum freedom meansmaximum 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 andfaster. We did not base our system on property but opportunity—which meant webased 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 conventionalpicture of class politics is composed of the Haves, who want a stability tokeep what they have, and the Have-Nots, who want atouch 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, runnersare always using the new opportunities given by our land. These economicleaders (front-runners) would thus be mainly agents of change.The nonstarters were considered the ones who wanted stability, 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, begin things againfrom compensatorily staggered “starting lines.” “Reform” in Americahas been sterile because it can imagine no change except through the extensionof this metaphor of a race, wider inclusion of competitors, “apiece of the action,” as it were, for the disenfranchised. There is no attemptto call off the race. Since our only stability is change, America seems not to honor thequiet work that achieves social interdependence and stability. There is, in ourlegends, 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 of ourpresent 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 (forthere is no end). 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
请问为什么选C? 文章中哪里可以找到呢? 读了半天找不到.. 谢谢! |
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