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Florida’s business climate is sunny, too. The Milken Institute, a think-tank inCalifornia, compiles an index of "best-performing cities" inAmerica, a composite measure of such things as job creation, wage growth and whether businesses are thriving. In the most recent index, six of the top ten metropolitan areas are in FloridA、( Orlando-Kissimmee is sixth. )And 18 of the top 30 are in the South.
For a long time the South’s weather got in the way of its development. Richard Pillsbury, a geography professor at Georgia State University, describes traditional life in the lowland South, a region stretching from northern Virginia down to the Gulf coast of Texas: "Smallish barren farms almost lost in the white heat of a hot and humid summer sun as the owners and their help fought swarms of mosquitoes to plant, cultivate and harvest the meagre cotton crop for market." Then air-conditioning came.As it spread after the World War Ⅱ, the South became suddenly more comfortable to live and work in. From the 1940s until the 1980s the region boomeD、In his book Old South, New South, Gavin Wright lists four reasons why Federal defence spending stimulated growth. Sunshine attracted skilled professionals. The South, having developed so little in the past, was a "clean slate", without strong labour unions, entrenched bureaucracies, restrictive laws or outdated machinery. Lastly, given how much catching up the South had to do, the potential returns were higher than in the north.
Southerners have prospered in part by playing to their traditional strengths. The fame of southern hospitality has bolstered the region’s hotel chains, such as Holiday Inn. That of southern cuisine helps local restaurants, such as Waffle House,CrackerBarrel and KFC、Arkansas-based Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, has kept costs low by refusing to recognize unions.AndCoca-Cola owes at least some of its success to its southern origins.
B．the reason why the South is a great place to work.
C．the history of the development of the South.
D．the reason why the South is superior to the North.
网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
[直击题眼] 本题是全文主旨题，需纵观全文 [深层剖析] 文章以迪斯尼公司选择佛罗里达建造主题公园为引子，讲述南部的发展历史(佛罗里达为南部各州的一个代表)，最终目的要从人文角度论述南部发展成功的关键。“南部是一片工作的乐土”则正好反映此主题，所以正确答案为[B]。 [主干扰项分析] [D]be superior to“比…有优势”，本文的确在论述南部发展的种种优势，但对于北方的问题，作者鲜有解释。因此，不具可比性。◆谨记：选项中涉及比较级问题时，一定要对比较双方都进行论述，或原文有明确的同义比较句。说某一方好，并不意味着另一方坏。 [次干扰项分析] 虽然文章前两段都在论述迪斯尼在佛罗里达选址建造公园的问题，但这是引子，也是例子，主旨的出现一定在其后面，故[A]不对。这种写作思路在美国主流报刊杂志的文章中极为常见。例如：2005年第 2篇文章开头以吸烟为例，进而引出环境保护的话题。[C]选项勉强可称之为文章第三段的主旨，第三段以“空调的普及”为时空分界点，分段讲述南方的发展。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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