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【单选题】Well, no gain without pain, they say.But what about pain without gainEverywhere you go inAmerica, you hear tales of corporate revival. What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real.
The official statistics are mildly discouraging. They show that, if you lump manufacturing and services together, productivity has grown on average by 1.2% since 1987. That is somewhat faster than the average during the previous decade.And since 1991, productivity has increased by about 2% a year, which is more than twice the 1978—1987 average. The trouble is that part of the recent acceleration is due to the usual rebound that occurs at this point in a business cycle, and so is not conclusive evidence of a revival in the underlying trenD、There is, as Robert Rubin, the treasury secretary, says, a "disjunction" between the mass of business anecdote that points to a leap in productivity and the picture reflected by the statistics.
Some of this can be easily explaineD、New ways of organizing the workplace—all that re-engineering and downsizing—are only one contribution to the overall productivity of an economy, which is driven by many other factors such as joint investment in equipment and machinery, new technology, and investment in education and training. Moreover, most of the changes that companies make are intended to keep them profitable, and this need not always mean increasing productivity, switching to new markets or improving quality can matter just as much.
Two other explanations are more speculative. First, some of the business restructuring of recent years may have been ineptly done. Second, even if it was well done, it may have spread much less widely than people suppose.
Leonard Schlesinger, a Harvard academic and former chief executive ofAuBong Pain, a rapidly growing chain of bakery cafes, says that much "re-engineering" has been crude. In many cases, he believes, the loss of revenue has been greater than the reductions in cost. His colleague, MichaelBeer, says that far too many companies have applied re-engineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping out costs without giving sufficient thought to long-term profitability.BBDO’sAl Rosenshine is blunter. He dismisses a lot of the work of re-engineering consultants as mere rubbish—"the worst sort of ambulance-chasing".
According to the author, theAmerican economic situation is ______.

A、not as good as it seems B、at its turning point
C、much better than it seems D、near to complete recovery
网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
[解析] 本题考查考生推理判断的能力。第一段第三、四句指出，美国到处都在谈论所谓公司的振兴(tales of corporate revival)，但是，商界自认为正在进行的所谓生产力革命究竟是否名副其实(for real)，这一点却很难确定。第四句实际上是全文的主旨，从反面提出了下文旨在回答的问题，所谓生产力革命根本不存在，官方的统计数字也并不怎么乐观。第二段第五句指出，问题是：最近显示出的增长部分是由商业领域里此时出现的正常的反弹(rebound)造成的，因此，不能将它看作更深层的(当指生产力)振兴的证据。 最后一段引用了几个专家的评价，对目前进行的促进生产力发展的措施进行了否定，特别是罗森夏恩的评价，在他看来，目前负责调整经济的顾问们所做的工作，多数都是垃圾(没有成效)，是典型的“于事无补”(ambulance-chasing)。综合起来看，作者认为美国经济形势正如选项A中所说：并不像表面看上去那样好。因此正确答案为A。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>