求助！请教一道Prep阅读题

irislei

Citing the fact that the real gross    一些记者说1997年美国人均

            domestic product (GDP) per capita was       GDP比以前高，所以经济表现

            higher in 1997 than ever before, some         很好。

Line     journalists have argued that the United

  (5)      States economy performed ideally in    

1997.  However, the real GDP is almost    但是实际的GPA几乎总是比

always higher than ever before; it falls       以往要好，只在衰退时下跌。

only during recessions.  One point         记者忽视了GPA增长速度比

these journalists overlooked is that in        1873-1973平均速度慢了。

 (10)     1997, as in the twenty-four years imme-

diately preceding it, the real GDP per

capita grew nearly one-half percent a

year more slowly than it had on aver-

age between 1873 and 1973.  Were the     1997年50%以上的人口在领

 (15)     1997 economy as robust as claimed,       工资，1873-1973只有40%。

the growth rate of real GDP per capita       如果1997经济真的那么好，

in 1997 would have surpassed the          人均GDP增长率应该比上述

average growth rate of real GDP per        时期高。

capita between 1873 and 1973 because

 (20)     over fifty percent of the population

            worked for wages in 1997 whereas

            only forty percent worked for wages

between 1873 and 1973.  If the growth

rate of labor productivity (output per

 (25)     hour of goods and services) in 1997

had equaled its average growth rate

between 1873 and 1973 of more than

two percent, then, given the proportion-

ately larger workforce that existed in

 (30)     1997, real GDP per capita in 1997 would

have been higher than it actually was,

since output is a major factor in GDP.

            However, because labor productivity         劳动力在1997年只增长了1%，

grew by only one percent in 1997, real     所以1997年的真实人均GDP

(35)         GDP per capita grew more slowly in      增长比1873-1973年慢。

1997 than it had on average between

1873 and 1973.

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Q35:

The passage is primarily concerned with

                       

comparing various measures used to assess the performance of the United States economy in 1997

providing evidence that the performance of the United States economy in 1997 was similar to its performance between 1873 and 1973

evaluating an argument concerning the performance of the United States economy in1997

examining the consequences of a popular misconception× about the performance of the United States economy in 1997

supporting an assertion made by journalists about the performance of the United States economy in 1997

大家做过这道题吗？答案是什么

bubumouse

都不怎么对 第三个算是比较符合答案的吧