2000年考研英语53题

你这个提问的好不专业呀,题目都不帖出来.人家怎么回答你呀?

终于看到题目了。呵呵。

很明显，这个题目，考的是文章的主旨。也就是说，出题者想知道你到底知不知道整篇文章在说什么。那我们就来看看这整篇文章是在说什么呢，第一段，讲的是二战使得美国的经济上升；第二段，提出由于经济上升的太容易，导致有竞争的时候，美国的经济又下降了；第三段，讲经济下降带来了什么后果；第四段提出正是因为有了下降导致美国开始反思和反省，然后又取得了好的成果。（大致就是这样，也许我概括的不是特别好）当理清了整篇文章大致在说什么的时候，你再来看看D选项，A long history of success may pave the way for further development. 长期的成功是未来发展的基础。除了第一句话里出现过long history of success 外，你在哪里还看到过整篇文章有提到过关于“长期成功”的问题呀，更何况，人家第一句话里还有个effortless呢！排除了AC选项后（这两个选项太低级），B选项就能从文章的第二段里推断出来嘛。

不知道我有没有说清楚哦。

个人认为以考研英语变态的美名，lz没必要这么纠结，关键在掌握题目变态的方法，建议而已

A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may become a driving force. When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a market eight ties larger than any competitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the world's best, its workers the most skilled. America and Americans were prosperous beyond the dreams 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 proved painful. By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition. By 1987 there was only one American television maker left, Zenith.(Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Korea's LG Electronics in July.)Foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market America's machine-tool industry was on the ropes. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had which sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty.

All of this caused a crisis of confidence. Americans stopped taking prosperity for granted. They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that their incomes would therefore shortly begin to fall as well. The mid-1980s brought one inquiry after another into the causes of America's industrial decline. Their sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnings about the growing competition from overseas.

How things have changed! In 1995 the United States can look back on five years of solid growth while Japan has been struggling. Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle. Self-doubt has yielded to blind pride." American industry has changed its structure, has gone on a diet, has learnt to be more quick-witted," according to Richard Cavanagh, executive dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government," It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businesses are improving their productivity, says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think-tank in Washington, DC. And William Sahlman of the Harvard Business School believes that people will look back on this period as" a golden age of business management in the United States."

53.What can be inferred from the passage?

〔A〕It is human nature to shift between self-doubt and blind pried.

〔B〕Intense competition may contribute to economic progress.

〔C〕The revival of the economy depends on international cooperation.

〔D〕A long history of success may pave the way for further development.

从这篇文章我们可以推断出什么?

(B)激烈的竞争可以有助于经济发展。

[D]历史的成功会为将来的发展铺平道路。

文章的首句说的是
A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap
历史的没有付出努力的成功可能成为一个可怕的障碍

D显然不符题意 而且问题是 从这篇文章我们可以推断出什么? 注意是推断~
如果原文能找到，那么肯定不是正确答案。通篇文章，大意讲的是美国在二战后拥有很多优势，却工业竞争力下降（没有竞争），经过反思后而崛起（有了竞争），因此我们可以推断，这是竞争产生的结果。

补充：but, if properly handled, it may become a driving force
意思是 如果处理得当，就可能成为一种动力~
如果加上这句，确实是令人难以选择，但是，备选答案里的D选项只给了句子的前半部分，有断章取义之嫌。另外，即便加上后半句，B选项仍然要好于D选项，
因为这是推断出的结果，而不是原文给出。

手头没书 不能帮你了 呵呵，你确定没有断章取义 或者扩大 缩小范围吗？