实习日记100篇通用版Section B
Passage One
Questions 52 to 56 are bad on the following passage.
You hear the refrain all the time: the U.S. economy looks good statistically, but it doesn’t feel good. Why doesn’t ever-greater wealth promote ever-greater happiness? It is a question that dates at least to the appearance in 1958 of The Affluent (富裕的) Society by John Kenneth Galbraith, who died recently at 97.
The Affluent Society is a modern classic becau it helped define a new moment in the human condition. For most of history, “hunger, sickness, and cold” threatened nearly everyone, Galbraith wrote. “Poverty was found everywhere in that world. Obviously it is not of ours.” 水牛养殖After World War II, the dread of another Great Depression gave way to an economic boom. In the 1930s unemployment had averaged 18.2 percent; in the 1950s it was 4.5 percent.
To Galbraith, materialism had gone mad and would breed discontent演讲稿1000字. Through advertising, companies conditioned consumers to buy things they didn’t really want or need. Becau so much spending was artificial, it would be unfulfilling. Meanwhile, government spending that would make everyone better off was being cut down becau people instinctively—and wrongly—labeled government only as “a necessary evil.”
It’s often said that only the rich are getting ahead; everyone el is standing still or falling behind. 折叠小桌>优美的段落摘抄Well, there are many underving rich—overpaid chief executives, for instance. But over any meaningful period, most people’s incomes are increasing. From 1995 to 2004, inflation-adjusted average family income ro 14.3 percent, to $43,200. people feel “squeezed” becau their rising incomes often don’t satisfy their rising wants—for bigger homes, more health care, more education, faster Internet connections.
The other great frustration is that it has not eliminated incurity. People regard job stability as part of their standard of living. As corporate layoffs incread, that part has eroded. More workers fear they’ve become “the disposable American,” as Louis Uchitelle puts it in his book by the same name.
Becau so much previous suffering and social conflict stemmed from poverty, the arrival of widespread affluence suggested utopian (乌托邦式的) possibilities. Up to a point, affluence succeeds. There is much les physical miry than before. People are better off. 时事政治手抄报Unfortunately, affluence also creates new complaints and contradictions.
Advanced societies need economic growth to satisfy the multiplying wants of their citizens. But the quest for growth lets loo new anxieties and economic conflicts that disturb the social order. Affluence liberates the individual, promising that everyone can choo a unique way to lf-fulfillment. But the promi is so extravagant that it predestines many disappointments and sometimes inspires choices that have anti-social conquences, including family breakdown and obesity (肥胖症). Statistical indicators of happiness have not rin with incomes.
Should we be surprid? Not really. We’ve simply reaffirmed an old truth: the pursuit of affluence does not always end with happiness.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
52. What question does John Kenneth Galbraith rai in his book The Affluent Society?
A) Why statistics don’t tell the truth about the economy.
B) Why affluence doesn’t guarantee happiness.
C) How happiness can be promoted today.
D) What lies behind an economic boom.（B）
53. According to Galbraith, people feel discontented becau ________.
A) public spending hasn’t been cut down as expected
B) the government has proved to be a necessary evil
C) they are in fear of another Great Depression
D) materialism has run wild in modern society（D）
54. Why do people feel squeezed when their average income ris considerably?
A) Their material pursuits have gone far ahead of their earnings.
B) Their purchasing power has dropped markedly with inflation.
C) The distribution of wealth is uneven between the r5ich and the poor.
D) Health care and educational cost have somehow gone out of control.（A）
55. What does Louis Uchitelle mean by “the disposable American” (Line 3, Para. 5)?
A) Tho who e job stability as part of their living standard.
B) People full of utopian ideas resulting from affluence.
C) People who have little say in American politics.
D) Workers who no longer have cure jobs.（D）
56. What has affluence brought to American society?
A) Renewed economic curity.
B) A n of lf-fulfillment.一年级美术画
C) New conflicts and complaints.
D) Miry and anti-social behavior.（C）
Passage Two
Questions 57 to 61 are bad on the following passage.
The u of deferential (敬重的) language is symbolic of the Confucian ideal of the woman, which dominates conrvative gender norms in Japan. T匪警电话是多少his ideal prents a woman who withdraws quietly to the background, subordinating her life and needs to tho of her family and its male head. She is a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, master of the domestic arts. The typical refined Japane woman excels in modesty and delicacy; she “treads softly (谨言慎行)in the world,” elevating feminine beauty and grace to an art form.
