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1、 to strike the right balance between encouraging healthy economic growth and avoiding inflationary pressures. With the economy showing sustained and vigorous growth, and with the currency crisis highlighting the need to improve our competitive posture internationally, the emphasis seemed to be shift

2、ing to the problem of inflation. The Phase Three Program of wage and price restraint can contribute to reducing inflation. Unless productivity growth is unexpectedly large; however, the expansion of real output must eventually begin to slow down to the economys larger run growth potential if general

3、ized demand pressures on prices are to be avoided. 1. The author mentions increased installment debt in the first paragraph in order to show _.A the continuing expansion of the economyB the growth of consumer purchasing powerC the consumers confidence in the economyD the soaring consumer incomes for

4、 spending2. Paragraph 2 mainly deals with _.A economic policy measures suggested by the PresidentB the causes of business development for the periodC the stimulative monetary and fiscal policesD the revival of stronger liquidity positions3. It can be inferred from the third paragraph that the author

5、s attitude toward the reduction of the international payments deficit seems _.A bitter-sweetB pessimisticC sympatheticD doubtful4. Part of the public policy task, as outlined in the text, is to _.A prevent payments deficitB devalue the American dollarC avoid inflationary pressuresD increase the bala

6、nce of trade5. It can be learned from the last paragraph that the Phase Three Program contained _.A devaluation of the dollarB productivity measuresC reduced government spendingD wage and price controlsEducation is one of the key words of our time. A man, without an education, many of us believe, is

7、 an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities. Convinced of the importance of education, modern states invest in institutions of learning to get back interest in the form of a large group of enlightened young men and women who are pot

8、ential leaders. Education, with its cycles of instruction so carefully worked out, is punctuated by textbooks-those purchasable wells of wisdom-what would civilization be like without its benefits? So much is certain: that we would have doctors and preachers, lawyers and defendants, marriages and bi

9、rths; but our spiritual outlook would be different. We would lay less stress on facts and figures and more on a good memory, on applied psychology, and on the capacity of a man to get along with his fellow citizens. If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we would have the m

10、ost democratic form of college imaginable. Among the people whom we like to call savages all knowledge inherited by tradition is shared by all; it is taught to every member of the tribe so that in this respect everybody is equally equipped for life. It is the ideal condition of the equal start which

11、 only our most progressive forms of modem education try to regain. In primitive cultures the obligation to seek and to receive the traditional instruction is binding to all. There are no illiterates-if the term can be applied to people without a script-while our own compulsory school attendance beca

12、me law in Germany in 1642, in France in 1806, and in England 1876, and is still non-existent in a number of civilized nations. This shows how long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure that all our children could share in the knowledge accumulated by the happy few during the past centuri

13、es. Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means. All are entitled to an equal start. There is none of the hurry which, in our society, often hampers the full development of a growing personality. There, a child grows up under the ever-present attention of his parents, therefore the

14、 jungles and the grasslands know of no juvenile delinquency. No necessity of making a living away from home results in neglect of children and no father is confronted with his inability to buy an education for his child. 6. The word in the first paragraph most probably means _.A pleasureB returnsC s

15、hareD knowledge7. According to the passage, the author seems to be _.A against the education in the very early historic timesB in favor of the educational practice in primitive culturesC quite happy to see an equal start for everyoneD positive about our present educational instruction8. It can be in

16、ferred from the passage that _.A the aim of has already been reached among savagesB savages in ancient times are more civilized than modern peopleC the modem education system is more democratic than beforeD there are no illiterates in civilized nations in todays society9. According to the passage, w

17、hich of the following statements is true?A Education cant work without the benefits of textbooks.B We have not yet decided on our educational models.C Compulsory schooling is not existent in all nations.D Our spiritual outlook is better now than before.10. The best title for this passage is _.A Educ

18、ation and Modern CivilizationB The Significance of Modern EducationC Educational Investment and the Profit It BringsD Education: A Comparison between Past and Present All cultures have some system of measuring duration, or keeping time, but in Western industrialized societies, we keep track of time

19、in what seems to other peoples almost an obsessive fashion. We view time as motion on a space, a kind of linear progression measured by the clock and the calendar. This perception contributes to our sense of history and the keeping of records, which are typical aspects of Western cultures. Although

20、our perceptions of time seem natural to us, we must not assume that other cultures operate on the same time system. For instance, why should we assume that a Hopi raised in the Hopi culture would have the same intuitions about time that we have? In Hopi history, if records had been written, we would

21、 find a different set of cultural and environmental influences working together. The Hopi people are a peaceful agricultural society isolated by geographic feature and nomad enemies in a land of little rainfall. Their agriculture is successful only by the greatest perseverance. Extensive preparation

22、s are needed to ensure crop growth. Thus the Hopi value persistence and repetition in activity. They have a sense of the cumulative value of numerous, small, repeated movements, for to them such movements are not wasted but are stored up to make changes in later events. The Hopi have no intuition of

23、 time as motion, as a smooth flowing line on which everything in the universe proceeds at an equal rate away from a past, through a present, into a foreseeable future. Long and careful study of the Hopi language has revealed that it contains no words, grammatical forms, constructions, or expressions that refer to what we call time-the past, present, or future-or to the duration or lasting aspect of time. To the Hopi, time is a getting later of everything that has been done, so that past and present merge together. The Hopi do not s