天山9—Q35

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1.         T-9-Q35-Q37资本主义

For many years, historians thought

that the development of capitalism had not

faced serious challenges in the United

Line               States. Writing in the early twentieth cen-

(5)                 tury, Progressive historians sympathized

with the battles waged by farmers and

small producers against large capitalists

in the late nineteenth century, but they did

not question the widespread acceptance

(10)               of laissez-faire (unregulated) capitalism

throughout American history. Similarly,

Louis Hartz, who sometimes disagreed

with the Progressives, argued that Amer-

icans accepted laissez-faire capitalism

(15)               without challenge because they lacked

a feudal, precaptialist past. Recently,

however, some scholars have argued

that even though laissez-faire became

the prevailing ethos in nineteen-century

(20)               America, it was not accepted without

struggle. Laissez-faire capitalism ,they

suggest, clashed with existing religious

and communitarian norms that imposed

moral constraints on acquisitiveness to

(25)               protect the weak from the predatory, the

strong from corruption, and the entire cul-

ture from materialist excess. Buttressed

by mercantilist notions that government

should be both regulator and promoter

(30)               of economic activity, these norms per-

sisted long after the American Revolution

helped unleash the economic forces that

produced capitalism. These scholars

argue that even in the late nineteenth

(35)               century, with the government’s role in

the economy considerably diminished,

laissez-faire had not triumphed com-

pletely. Hard times continued to revive

popular demands for regulating busi-

(40)               ness and softening the harsh edges of

laissez-faire capitalism.

T-9-Q35

The primary purpose of the passage is to

1. reveal the underlying similarities of certain arguments regarding the development of capitalism in the United States


2. synthesize two competing arguments regarding the development of capitalism in the United States


3. defend an established argument regarding the development of capitalism in the United States


4. summarize a scholarly refutation of an argument regarding the development of capitalism in the United States


5. discuss a new methodology for the study of the development of capitalism in the United States

这道题麻烦大家再帮忙确认一下答案，以前没有讨论过。。。我模考时选D，但现在感觉有点以偏概全，正反两种观点阐述德篇幅差不多，有点疑惑B，只是感觉这个synthesize用的不好

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-8-27 1:18:16编辑过]

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“E中discuss a new methodology for the study of the development of capitalism in the LACE w:st="on">United States 太离谱。”而今的意见，^_^LACE>