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  3. Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerful political pressures to keep it that way. Any attemp

Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerful political pressures to keep it that way. Any attemp

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问题     Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerful
political pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistributing wealth and in      S1. ______
come in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and upper
class interests. People can be relatively rich only if you are relatively poor, and as    S2. ______
power is mainly in the hands of the rich, public policies reflect their interests than    S3. ______
those of the poor.
    As Mr. Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from the
point of view of the non-poor. Poverty ensures that dirty, work gets doing. If there      S4. ______
were no poor people to scrub floors and empty bedpan, these jobs will have to be          S5. ______
rewarded with high incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs
for many of the non-porn, such as police officers, welfare workers, and government
bureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cockers,       S6. ______
gardeners, and other Workers to perform basic chores When their employers enjoy more      S7. ______
pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for more inferior goods and             S8. ______
service, such as day-old bread, run-down automobiles, or the advice of competent          S9. ______
physicians and lawyers. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb
the costs of change. It is just that poverty is an inevitable outcome of the American
economic system, in which the poor are politically powerless to influence or change.      S10. ______
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答案redistributing→redistribute
解析 attempt to后面一般接动词原型，而不接动名词，因为这里的to是不定式符号，而不是介词，即attempt to do sth.
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