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While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states — at least in getting peo

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问题     While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states — at least in getting people off welfare. It’s estimated that more than 2 million people have left the rolls since 1994.
    In the past four years, welfare rolls in Athens Country have been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than $6 an hour. The result: The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent — twice the national average.
    For advocates (代言人) for the poor, that’s an indication much more needs to be done.
    "More people are getting jobs, but it’s not making their lives any better," says Kathy Lairn, a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington.
    A center analysis of US Census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996, a greater percentage of single, female-headed households were earning money on their own, but that average income for these households actually went down.
    But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory.
    "Welfare was a poison. It was a toxin(毒素)that was poisoning the family," says Robert Rector, a welfare-reform policy analyst. "The reform is changing the moral climate in low-income communities. It’s beginning to rebuild the work ethic (道德观) , which is much more important."
    Mr. Rector and others argued that once "the habit of dependency is cracked," then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.
From the passage we know that welfare reform aims at________.
选项 A、saving welfare funds
B、rebuilding the work ethic
C、providing more jobs
D、cutting government expenses
答案B
解析 本题问题是“从本文中可知，福利改革目标是什么?”，“aims at”是重点定位词，分析选项：A. 节省福利资金：B. 重建职业道德观；C. 提供更多的工作；D. 减少政府花费；在倒数第二段的最后一句中“it’s beginning to rebuild the，work ethic. which is much more important”所以选B。
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