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4、 channelsB self-sufficientDself-restrainedC offerC self-satisfied.A searchB saveD seek.A proportion0.A genuinelyB percentageB obviouslyC rateD ratioC presumablyD frequentlyPart Reading ComprehensionDirections:Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question there are foura

5、nswers marked A, B, C and D. Read the passages carefully and choose the bestanswer to each of the questions. Then mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackeningthe corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. （40 points）Passage 1A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful han

6、dicap, but, if properlyhandled, it may become a driving force. When the United States entered just such a glowingperiod after the end of the Second World War, it had a market eight times larger than anycompetitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the worlds

7、best; its workers the most skilled. （11）America and Americans were prosperous beyond thedreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies the war had destroyed.It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominance

8、proved painful. By the mid-1980s Americanshad found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness. Some hugeAmerican industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreigncompetition. By 1987 there was only one American television maker left, Zeni

9、th. （Nowthere is none: Zenith was bought by South Koreas LG Electronics in July.） （12）Foreign-madecars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market.Americas machine-tool industrywas on the ropes. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, whichAmerica had invented and which

10、 sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be thenext casualty.All of this caused a crisis of confidence. Americans stopped taking prosperity forgranted. They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that theirincomes would therefore shortly begin to fall as we

11、ll. The mid-1980s brought one inquiry afteranother into the causes of Americas industrial decline. Their sometimes sensational findingswere filled with warnings about the growing competition from overseas.How things have changed! In 1995 the United States can look back on five years ofsolid growth w

12、hile Japan has been struggling. （14）Few Americans attribute this solely to suchobvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle. Self-doubt has yieldedto blind pride. “American industry has changed its structure, has gone on a diet, has learnt to bemore quick-witted,” accordi

13、ng to Richard Cavanaugh, executive dean of Harvards KennedySchool of Government. “It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businessesare improving their productivity,” says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think-tank inWashington, DC. And William Sahlman of the Harvard Business School believes that peoplewill look back on this period as“a golden age of business management in the United States.”429words11. The U.S. achieved its predominance after World War II because.A it had