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DeliciaAn

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 be 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       不明白为什么选择C ,理不清逻辑关系啊。
(D) A social worker
(E) A government inspector
选：C

7.        It can be inferred from the passage that Woodrow Wilson’s ideas about the economic market
(A) encouraged those who “make the system work” (lines 45-46)
(B) perpetuated traditional legends about America    在哪里.........?
(C) revealed（显露） the prejudices （成见）of a man born wealthy
(D) foreshadowed the stock market crash of 1929
(E) began a tradition of presidential proclamations on economics
选：B

DeliciaAn

Thereis, in our legends, no heroism of the office clerk (office clerk: n.职员),(这里给出了，legends里没有heroism, 这是对WW idea的一个描述吗？从而推断出WW idea是有perpetuated traditional legends的作用的？) nostable industrial work force of the people who actually makethe system work.

求牛牛解答！！！

阅读实在好弱的说。。。

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DeliciaAn 发表于 2015-3-1 23:40
Thereis, in our legends, no heroism of the office clerk (office clerk: n.职员),(这里给出了，legends ...

这篇文章是gre 上的吗？

2643301345

“The United States, it was believed, had no status quo ante. ” 这句话用的是过去完成时， 说明是以前 美国就是 遵从改变的国家。我猜的。

DeliciaAn

2643301345 发表于 2015-3-22 10:53
这篇文章是gre 上的吗？

呀不好意思现在才看到。这篇文章是G2772上面的，汇总了OG老版本的阅读题目。

DeliciaAn

2643301345 发表于 2015-3-22 10:55
“The United States, it was believed, had no status quo ante. ” 这句话用的是过去完成时， 说明是以 ...

好的，谢谢我再看看。

DeliciaAn

自己给自己解决一下：
第3题：
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（regulative hand,是court judge所具有的，第3题，所以judge要比a government inspector更为合适）; an authority that can call things to a halt, begin things again from compensatorily staggered “starting lines.”

DeliciaAn

第7题
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. (这里所说的traditional legends就是非office clerk的那种人，所以对比起来，应该是说全文第一段WW对这类人的划分，第7题->perpetuate:使永存)