首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
We are not who we think we are. The American self-image is suffused with the golden glow of opportunity. We think of the Uni
We are not who we think we are. The American self-image is suffused with the golden glow of opportunity. We think of the Uni
admin
2010-01-10
43
问题
We are not who we think we are.
The American self-image is suffused with the golden glow of opportunity. We think of the United States as a land of unlimited possibility, not so much a classless society but as a place where class is mutable — a place where brains, energy and ambition are what counts, not the circumstances of one’s birth.
The Economic Mobility Project, an ambitious research initiative led by Pew Charitable Trusts, looked at the economic fortunes of a large group of families over time, comparing the income of parents in the late 1960s with the income of their children in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Here is the finding: The "rags to riches" story is much more common in Hollywood than on Main Street. Only 6 percent of children born to parents with family in come at the very bottom move to the top.
That is right, just 6 percent of children born to parents who ranked in the bottom fifth of the study sample, in terms of income, were able to bootstrap their way into the top fifth. Meanwhile, an incredible 42 percent of children born into that lowest quintile are still stuck at the bottom, having been unable to climb a single rung of the income ladder.
It is noted that even in Britain -- a nation we think of as burdened with a hidebound class system — children who are born poor have a better chance of moving up. When the three studies were released, most reporters focused on the finding that African-Americans born to middleclass or upper middle-class families are earning slightly less, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than did their parents.
One of the studies indicates, in fact, that most of the financial gains white families have made in the past three decades can be attributed to the entry of white women into the labor force. This is much less true for African-Americans.
The picture that emerges from all the quintiles, correlations and percentages is of a nation in which, overall, "the current generation of adults is better off than the previous one", as one of the studies notes.
The median income of the families in the sample group was $ 55,600 in the late 1960s; their children’s median family income was measured at $ 71,900. However, this rising tide has not lifted all boats equally. The rich have seen far greater income gains than have the poor.
Even more troubling is that our notion of America as the land of opportunity gets little support from the data. Americans move fairly easily up and down the middle rungs of the ladder, but there is "stickiness at the ends" -- four out of ten children who are born poor will remain poor, and four out of ten who are born rich will stay rich.
What might be the best title for this passage?
选项
A、Social Upward Mobility.
B、Incredible Income Gains.
C、Inequality in Wealth.
D、America. Not Land of Opportunity.
答案
D
解析
给全文取标题的题目都是主旨大意题。A选项谈的正好是与全文相反的内容;B选项显然离题了;D选项又太过绝对,因此选C,C选项的意思是“财富中的不平衡”。C只是点出了原题的一部分内容,而D选项巧妙地辩驳了美国是“land of opportunity”的说法,也符合全文对人的未来的影响的看法,因此选D。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/2K0O777K
本试题收录于:
NAETI中级口译笔试题库外语翻译证书(NAETI)分类
0
NAETI中级口译笔试
外语翻译证书(NAETI)
相关试题推荐
Allthestudentsand______arefreetouseallInternetservicesviaabroadbandconnection.
OfalltheemployedworkersintheUnitedStates,12.5millionarepartofatemporaryworkforce.TheUnitedStatesBureauofLa
Scientistsstudyingtheactivityofthelivingbrainwithwidelyusednewimagingtechniqueshavebeenmissingsomeoftheearli
SoengrossedinhiseffortswouldGauginbecomethathebarelynoticedthepassingoftime.
Modernindustrialsocietygrantslittlestatustooldpeople.Infact,suchasocietyhasasystemofbuilt-inobsolescence.The
Mostofyourquestionsrelatedtostudyingabroadaresuchasthequestionsandanswerslistedinourhomepage.
下面你将听到一段题为“说聪明”的论述。聪明的人,智力发达、记忆和理解能力也强。聪明是好事,是财富,应好好利用,用于进步;用于获取知识,用于为祖国为人民做好事,为大家也为自己好。应该承认,人和人不一样,有的人就是聪明。周恩来就是一个聪明的人,早在年
A、Feasible.B、Impractical.C、Unpopular.D、Inefficient.A根据题干要求在原文中找寻反对党的意见,发现原文最后一段关于反对党派的意见有如下说法“...haveraisedquestionsabout
VitaminC,whichcanbefoundinsomecertainberriesandcherries,helpsridthebodyofheavymetalsandtoxins.
钟表上的秒针一下一下地移动,每移动一下就表示我们的寿命已经缩短了一部分。再看看墙上挂着的可以一张张撕下的日历,每天撕下一张就表示我们的寿命又缩短了一天。因为时间即生命。没有人不爱惜他的生命,但很少人珍视他的时间。如果想在有生之年做一点什么事,学一
随机试题
Excel要调整列宽,需将鼠标指针移至列标的()
慢性硬膜下血肿的最常见治疗方法是
下列检查中其对于肺血栓栓塞的确诊有重要价值的是哪一项
低渗性脱水主要特征是
患者,男,48岁。感呼吸困难、腹胀、乏力、头晕、咳嗽。查体心尖搏动不易触及,心音减低。下肢水肿。行胸部CT扫描如下图:本病增强扫描较特征性的CT表现为
铁路施工中常用的降水措施有()。
背景某系统工程公司项目部承包一大楼空调设备的智能监控系统安装调试。监控设备、材料有直接数字控制器、电动调式阀、风门驱动器、各类传感器(温度、压力、流量)及各种规格线缆(双绞线、同轴电缆)。合同约定:设备、材料为进口产品,并确定了产品的品牌、产地、
强化服务的基本要求主要表现在()。
毛泽东思想活的灵魂是贯穿于毛泽东思想各个组成部分的立场、观点和方法,下列各项中不是毛泽东思想的活的灵魂的基本方面的是()。
Cettedécisionstupidenouslaisse______.Onpeutrienàavancer...
最新回复
(
0
)