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07.6.23英语六级真题及答案(全)

07.6.23英语六级真题阅读部分及答案(52-56)

[日期:2007-06-24]   [字体: ]

Passage One
Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.

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You hear the refrain all the lime: the U.S. economy looks good statistically, but il 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 modem classic because 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 ii is not of ours." After World War II. the dread of another GREat Depression gave way to an economic boom. In the 1930s unemploy­ment had averaged I8.2 percent; in the 1950s it was 4.5 percent.

To Galbraith, materialism had gone mad and would breed discontent. Through advertising. companies conditioned consumers to buy things they didn't really want or need. Because so math spending was artificial, it would be unfulfilling. Meanwhile, government spending that would make everyone belter off was being cut down because people Instinctively—and wrongly—labeled gov­ernment only as "a necessary evil."

It's often said that only the rich are yetting ahead; everyone else is standing still or falling behind. Well, there are many undeserving 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 rose 14.3 percent, to $43.200. People feel "squeezed" because their rising incomes often don't satisfy their rising wants—for bigger homes, more health care, more education.

The other GREat frustration is thai ii has not eliminated insecurity. People regard job stability as part of their standard of living. As corporate layoffs increased, that pan has eroded. More workers fear they've become "the disposable American." as Louis Uchitelle puts it in his book by the same name.

Because 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 less physical misery than before. People are better off. Unfortunately. affluence also creates new complaints and contradictions.

The other GREat frustration is that i! has not eliminated insecurity. People regard job stability as part of their standard of living. As corporate layoffs increased, that pan has eroded. More workers fear they've become "The disposable American;' as Louis Uchitelle puts it in his book bv the same name.

Advanced societies need economic growth to satisfy the multiplying wants of their citizens. Bui the quest for growth lets loose new anxieties and economic conflicts that disturb the social order. Affluence liberates the individual, promising that everyone can choose a unique wa) to self-fulfillment. But the promise is so extravagant that it predestines many disappointments and some­times inspires choices that have ami-social consequences, including family breakdown and obesity (肥胖症). Statistical indicators of happiness have not risen with incomes.

Should we be surprised? Not really. We've simply reaffirmed an old truth: the pursuit o(afflu­ence does not always end with happiness.

52 What question does John Kenneth Galbraith raise in his book The Affluent Society?
A) Why statistics don't tell the truth aboui the- economy.
B) Why affluence doesn't guarantee happiness
C) How happiness can be promoted today.
D) What lies behind an economic boom.

53. Acording to Galbraith. people feel discontented because________.
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 modem society

54. Why do people fee! squeezed when their average income rises 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 tiie rich and the poor.
D) Health care and educational costs have somehow gone out of control.

55. What does Louis Uchitelle mean by -the disposable American" (Line 3, Para. 5)?
A) Those who see job stability as pan 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 secure jobs.

56. What has affluence brought to American society
A) Renewed economic security.
B) A sense of self-fulfillment.
C) New conflicts and complaints.
D)Misery and anti-social behavior.
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