【单选题】
TheAmerican Industry
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 times larger than any competitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the world’s best, its workers the most skilleD、America andAmericans were prosperous beyond the dreams of theEuropeans andAsians 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-1980sAmericans had 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 foreign competition.By 1987 there was only oneAmerican television maker left, Zenith. (Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Korea’s LGElectronics in July.) Foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic marketAmerica’s machine-tool industry was on the ropes. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, whichAmerica 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 ofAmerica’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. FewAmericans 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 RichardCavanagh, executive dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, "It makes me proud to be anAmerican just to see how our businesses are improving their productivity, " says Stephen Moore of theCato Institute, a think-tank in Washington,DC、And William Sahlman of the HarvardBusiness School believes that people will look back on this period as "a golden age of business management in the United States.\
The U.S. achieved its predominance after World War II because ______.A．it had made painstaking efforts towards this goal
B．its domestic market was eight times larger than before
C．the war had destroyed the economies of most potential competitors
D．the unparalleled size of its workforce had given an impetus to its economy
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
[解析] 第一段指出，“二战后，美国就进入了这样的一个辉煌的历史时期。它拥有比任何竞争者大八倍的市场，这使其工业经济规模前所未有。它的科学家是世上最优秀的，它的工人是技术最好的。美国及其民众的富庶是那些经济遭到战争破坏的欧洲人和亚洲人连做梦也不敢想的”。因此利用排除法，确定答案是C。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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 times larger than any competitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the world’s best, its workers the most skilleD、America andAmericans were prosperous beyond the dreams of theEuropeans andAsians 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-1980sAmericans had 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 foreign competition.By 1987 there was only oneAmerican television maker left, Zenith. (Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Korea’s LGElectronics in July.) Foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic marketAmerica’s machine-tool industry was on the ropes. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, whichAmerica 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 ofAmerica’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. FewAmericans 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 RichardCavanagh, executive dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, "It makes me proud to be anAmerican just to see how our businesses are improving their productivity, " says Stephen Moore of theCato Institute, a think-tank in Washington,DC、And William Sahlman of the HarvardBusiness School believes that people will look back on this period as "a golden age of business management in the United States.\
The U.S. achieved its predominance after World War II because ______.A．it had made painstaking efforts towards this goal
B．its domestic market was eight times larger than before
C．the war had destroyed the economies of most potential competitors
D．the unparalleled size of its workforce had given an impetus to its economy
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
[解析] 第一段指出，“二战后，美国就进入了这样的一个辉煌的历史时期。它拥有比任何竞争者大八倍的市场，这使其工业经济规模前所未有。它的科学家是世上最优秀的，它的工人是技术最好的。美国及其民众的富庶是那些经济遭到战争破坏的欧洲人和亚洲人连做梦也不敢想的”。因此利用排除法，确定答案是C。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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