[求助]XDF_rc_passage2请帮助

rebuscat

Passage 2
      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 instability and change in which to scramble for 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 he 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, 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 race we must all run, all trying to win, none
winning in the end (for there 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
  (E) A government inspector
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
  (D) a monument to the efforts of industrial reformers
  (E) a surprisingly "Old World" remedy for social ills
这两道题的着手方式不太懂。我无法从原文推出。有xdjm愿意帮我讲讲吗。
很不好意思我没有杨继的精解，可能上边有。麻烦大家了。

lewis

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rebuscat

可是可是，Lewis大侠，我细看了呀，没有解释，难道我?...
请解惑。

anchoret

以下是引用rebuscat在2003-8-8 15:09:00的发言：
可是可是，Lewis大侠，我细看了呀，没有解释，难道我?...
请解惑。

这篇文章超过了机考难度，此外这种题材此后从没有出现过，可以不看。

rebuscat

谢谢小安的回答, 今天才看见你的回答, 如释重负.

mianmian

这个word版怎么没有解释？ 哪里有解释的可以下载？

yxycathy706

前方路漫漫。。。。加油

linyqiong

这篇文章我完全理解反了

liye57860363

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
(D) a monument to the efforts of industrial reformers
(E) a surprisingly "Old World" remedy for social ills

解：原文中"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. 人们想要稳定，所以抵制改变。B正确，其余四个选项均与原文意思有很大出入。