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谁来看看着第二篇 他想说什么 能写一下大意么？
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
5) maximum productiveness; our "openness" is to be the measure of our stability. Fascination withthis ideal has made Americans defy the "Old World" categories of settled possessiveness versus unsettling deprivation, the cupidity of retention
10) versus the cupidity of seizure, a "status quo"defended or attacked. The United States, it was believed, had no status quo ante. Our only "sta-tion" was the turning of a stationary wheel, spin-ning faster and faster. We did not base our
15) system on property but opportunity---which meant we based it not on stability but on mobil-ity. The more things changed, that is, the more rapidly the wheel turned, the steadier we wouldbe. The conventional picture of class politics is
20) 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 spec-
25) ulators, self-makers, runners are always using the new opportunities given by our land. These eco-nomic leaders(front-runners) would thus he mainly agents of change. The nonstarters were considered the ones who wanted stability, a
30) strong referee to give them some position in therace, a regulative hand to calm manic specula-tion; an authority that can call things to a halt,begin things again from compensatorily stag-gered "starting lines."
35) * "Reform" in America has been sterile because it can imagine no change except through the extension of this metaphor of a race, wider inclu-sion of competitors, "a piece of the action," as it were, for the disenfranchised. There is no
40) attempt to call off the race. Since our only sta-bility is change, America seems not to honor the quiet work that achieves social interdependence and stability. There is, in our legends, no hero-ism of the office clerk, no stable industrial work
45) 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
50) merely signs of the system's failure, of opportu-nity denied or not taken, of things to be elimi-nated. We have no pride in our growinginterdependence, in the fact that our system can serve others, that we are able to help those in
55) 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 Wonderlandrace we must all run, all trying to win, none
60) winning in the end(for there is no end). 1. The primary purpose of the passage is to
(A) criticize the inflexibility of American economicmythology
(B) contrast "Old World" and "New World" economicideologies
(C) challenge the integrity of traditional politicalleaders
(D) champion those Americans whom the authordeems to be neglected
(E) suggest a substitute for the traditional metaphorof a race 2. According to the passage, "Old World" values werebased on
(A) ability
(B) property
(C) family connections
(D) guild hierarchies
(E) education 3. In the context of the author's discussion ofregulating change, which of the following could bemost probably regarded as a "strong referee" (line30) 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 4. The author sets off the word "Reform" (line 35) withquotation marks in order to
(A) emphasize its departure from the concept ofsettled possessiveness
(B) show his support for a systematic program ofchange
(C) underscore the flexibility and even amorphousnessof United States society.
(D) indicate that the term was one of Wilson's favorites
(E) assert that reform in the United States has notbeen fundamental 5. It can be inferred from the passage that the authormost probably thinks that giving the disenfranchised"a piece of the action " (line 38) is
(A) a compassionate, if misdirected, legislativemeasure
(B) an example of Americans' resistance to profoundsocial 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 6. Which of the following metaphors could the authormost appropriately use to summarize his ownassessment of the American economic system(lines 35-60)?
(A) A windmill
(B) A waterfall
(C) A treadmill
(D) A gyroscope
(E) A bellows 7. It can be inferred from the passage that WoodrowWilson's ideas about the economic market
(A) encouraged those who "make the system work"(lines 45-46)
(B) perpetuated traditional legends about America
(C) revealed the prejudices of a man born wealthy
(D) foreshadowed the stock market crash of 1929
(E) began a tradition of presidential proclamations oneconomics 8. The passage contains information that would answerwhich of the following questions?Ⅰ.What techniques have industrialists used tomanipulate a free market?Ⅱ.In what ways are " New World" and " Old World"economic policies similar?Ⅲ. Has economic policy in the United States tendedto reward independent action?
(A) Ⅰonly
(B) Ⅱonly
(C) Ⅲ
only
(D) Ⅰand Ⅱ
only
(E) Ⅱand Ⅲ
only 9. Which of the following best expresses the author'smain point?
(A) Americans' pride in their jobs continues to givethem stamina today.
(B) The absence of a status quo ante hasundermined United States economic structure.
(C) The free enterprise system has been only auseless concept in the United States
(D) The myth of the American free enterprise systemis seriously flawed.
(E) Fascination with the ideal of "openness" hasmade Americans a progressive people. | 
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