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
It is not compatible with the egalitarian ideal that there should be sharp differences in the scale of monetary reward fro servi
It is not compatible with the egalitarian ideal that there should be sharp differences in the scale of monetary reward fro servi
admin
2011-03-10
28
问题
It is not compatible with the egalitarian ideal that there should be sharp differences in the scale of monetary reward fro services performed. In New Zealand, care of the underdog has long since been a more important consideration than is the case in very many other countries. Successive governments may claim with some justice to have abolished poverty, but this has not been done without there taking place a narrowing of margins between the rewards for skilled and unskilled labor, with its consequent denial of incentive to acquire skill, to strive for self-improvement. The country’s citizens have come to regard social security as their inalienable right, but by taking too readily for granted the State’s obligation towards themselves they re apt to lose sight of the converse proposition that they themselves have obligations to he state.
The reluctance to reward skilled labor at rates calculated to provide an incentive for acquiring skill has its counterpart in the reluctance to remunerate the nations’ best scholars and scientists on a scale sufficient to keep a fair proportion of them at home.
The fact is often deplored that so many young men of the highest ability prefer to take up a career overseas, but it is doubtful whether higher salaries would stem their exodus in more than a minor degree. Under any circumstances, regardless of monetary reward, the intellectual elite would be tempted to go abroad in search of a wider field of endeavor than can be found in so small a country as New Zealand.
In a society where great wealth is regarded as antisocial, it is natural that ostentation should be looked at Cskance. Marks of distinction are liable to be a handicap, for instance, the politician who accepts a title does not usually improve his chances of gaining or retaining office by doing so, Richard Seddon, it will be remembered, consistently and doubtless wisely refused to accept a knighthood. Wealth carries with it a minimum of prestige; it is a positive disadvantage to the aspirant to a political career. Strongly marked individuality or eccentricity are seldom in evidence among New Zealanders, and even where they do exist, the qualities are tolerated rather than appreciate. The rule o conformity prevails, and if the American writer, Sydney Greenbie, is to be believed, it has already produced a considerable measure of standardization among the inhabitants of the Dominion. "In face and feature, in mind and taste." Writes Greenbie, "the modem New Zealanders are so much alike that it is hard to remember the names of persons you meet casually for lack of distinguishing characteristics to which the eye can cling."
Under conditions such as those described above, it is not surprising that no Privileged class should have come into existence through long possession of landed estate or other permanent source of income. Nevertheless, the claim that New Zealanders have developed a classless society can scarcely be substantiated. Snobbery, when discouraged in one quarter, is prone to appear in some new form elsewhere. Recent investigations by A.A. Congalton and R. J. Havighurst show that there is a fairly well defined and universal appreciation of the graduated social status attaching to various social occupations. Results of a survey in which a cross section of he public was asked to answer a series of apposite questions showed, for example, that doctors, lawyers, and big businessmen were graded above heads of Government Departments, clergymen, and university professors; that office workers rated higher than shop assistants, miners than wharf laborers, and so on. Incidentally, the investigation also brought to light the fact that may attempt to inquire into the existence of social distinctions within the community invariably roused resentment.
A privileged class being also a leisured class, its rejection is in keeping with a deep-seated belief that work has a virtue in its own right, without regard to its usefulness .In pioneer days, when hands were few and subsistence hard to win, it was indeed a crime to remain idle, and the habit of Seeing idleness as a vice has endured. At the beginning of he great slump, when Forbes the Prime Minister, shocked at what he had seen of the "dole" during a visit to England, declared that so long as he retained office there would be no payment without work, his words appealed to a moral precept deeply inculcated not only in the minds of reactionaries but of many radicals as well.
I people believe that work has a virtue in its own right, they will do al the following EXCEPT ______.
选项
A、see idleness as a vice
B、try their best not to be idle
C、not accept a privileged class
D、inquire into social distinctions
答案
D
解析
从文章的最后一段可以看出,新西兰人认为闲散是一种恶习,他们会努力让自己忙碌,并且反感闲适的特权阶级,因此这样就可以排除A,B,C三项。D项在文中没有提到,因此是本题答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/C3YO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Changesinthewaypeoplelivebringaboutchangesinthejobsthattheydo.Moreandmorepeopleliveintownsandcitiesinste
ApersoninBeijingcandescribewhathappensinAustralia;similarly,a21st-centurypersoncantalkabouteventsinancientti
Note-takingSkillsNote-takingrequiresahighlevelofabilityinmanyskills,particularlyinthefollowingfourmostimpo
ItispossibleforstudentstoobtainadvanceddegreesinEnglishwhileknowinglittleornothingabouttraditionalscholarlyme
Manyobjectsindailyusehaveclearlybeeninfluencedbyscience,buttheirformandfunction,theirdimensionsandappearance,
Youshouldnotfearspidersthankstotheirpoison.Ofallthespidersin【M1】______NorthAmerica,onlyonekindisreallyda
AccordingtoAllan,whowilllookaftertheinterestofforeignstudentsatuniversities?
Identicaltwinspossessexactlythesamesetofgenes,yetastheygrowolder,theymaybegintodisplaysubtledifferences.The
Doyourememberallthoseyearswhenscientistsarguedthatsmokingwouldkillusbutthedoubtersinsistedthatwedidn’tknow
SecurityconcernshavepromptedthefederaldepartmentsofStateandHomelandSecuritytotightentheprocessforissuingvisas
随机试题
Didyoueverhave________ononeofthejockswhenyouwereatschoolorhaveyoufalleninlovewithsomeoneatfirstsight?
下列哪种情况醛固酮分泌不增多?
下列句子中,划线部分翻译错误的是()
垂直于水流方向的围堰为()。
窗口的组成元素包括()。
下列选项中,不属于错账查找方法的是()。
中国共产党在理论和政治上清醒和成熟的重要标志是()。
某景点成人票一张20元,儿童票一张10元,另有团体票一张130元可供最多l0人使用(不分成人儿童)。某小学组织学生及其父母到该景点游玩,统一购票,所有家庭都为三口之家。设家庭数为X,为使门票总额最低需要购买的团体票数量为Y。问以下哪个图形能反映X与Y之间
甲创作了一首歌曲,乙经甲授权后演唱并将该首歌曲收录在由丙公司为其录制的唱片中。丁网站未经任何人许可,擅自将该唱片中的所有歌曲上传供网民免费下载。根据我国著作权法规定,丁网站()。
当前和今后一个时期,建设有中国特色的现代农业,要特别注意强化的支撑是
最新回复
(
0
)